Enter The Ninja
1981 Directed by Menahem Golan
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After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Vietnam veteran by the name of Cole (Franco Nero) visits his war buddy Frank Landers (Alex Courtney) and his newly wed wife Mary Ann Landers (Susan George), who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. Cole soon finds that the Landers are being repeatedly harassed by a CEO named Charles Venarius.
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Franco Nero, a white ninja, visits his friends in Manila. While there he quickly comes to realize that his friends' plantation is losing business since the local crime lord is shaking down every business and scaring the workers from showing up. So he'll use his ninja skills to get even and get revenge.
Trashy and campy fun from Cannon, who's co-founder Menahem Golan takes the director's chair, Enter the Ninja is a post-dubbed wealth of hilarious ninja action, one-note bad guys including an impish crook with a hook for a hand, and some fourth-wall breaking humour. Oh, and the main bad guy has a swimming pool complete with synchronized swimmers in his office! Enter the Ninja is pretty shoddy, even by Cannon standards, but this also elevates it into an entertaining mess that goes great with some junk food and friends!
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Ninjas fighting, then a guy does a thing. Then mair ninjas dae mair fighting. Wee bit of pointless dialogue. Mair ninjas fighting. Then loads of ninjas fight. It’s brilliant, but mainly if ye like ninjas fighting.
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One of the first true Western ninja films, Cannon Films "Enter the Ninja" stars Franco Nero as a wandering warrior who visits an old war buddy of his, played by Alex Courtney, who is now running a farm in Manila. Nero discovers that things aren't as peaceful as they appear at first because a greedy land baron has decided that he needs their land in order to drill for oil. When Nero's buddy, and lovely wife played by Susan George, stand up to the evil baron (Christopher George) violence erupts and it is up to Nero to use his ninja arts to eradicate the evil corporation from taking over his friend's farm.
The film opens with some great ninja action.…
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A terrific Canon production with a fantastic, physical central performance by Nero, great fight scenes, good pacing and a little knowing humour.
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Franco Nero, a white ninja, visits his friends in Manila. While there he quickly comes to realize that his friends' plantation is losing business since the local crime lord is shaking down every business and scaring the workers from showing up. So he'll use his ninja skills to get even and get revenge.
Trashy and campy fun from Cannon, who's co-founder Menahem Golan takes the director's chair, Enter the Ninja is a post-dubbed wealth of hilarious ninja action, one-note bad guys including an impish crook with a hook for a hand, and some fourth-wall breaking humour. Oh, and the main bad guy has a swimming pool complete with synchronized swimmers in his office! Enter the Ninja is pretty shoddy, even by Cannon standards, but this also elevates it into an entertaining mess that goes great with some junk food and friends!
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More of Francos salty tears
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Mmmm.. I wanted to like it. But the fact that I fell asleep during it pretty much sums it up. Not great.
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http://cinemanarcs.com/2012/03/21/cinema-narcs-review-enter-the-ninja-1981/
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ENTER THE NINJA is the perfect blend of Franco Nero’s moustache, 80′s martial arts, 70′s clothing, and Susan George’s horniness for men she claims to distain. That’s right folks, it’s a Golan & Globus production and thus an almost perfect film.
After hanging out in Japan and flaunting hundreds of years of tradition by learning the art of Ninjitsu, Cole (we know he’s a good guy because he wears white flairs ALL THE TIME) decides to head on down to the Philippines to visit his old war buddy Frank (the fantastic Alex Courtney ) who owns some sort of plantation in the country. Upon arriving, Cole discovers Frank is having problems with another ex-pat Yank who is after the oil reserves…
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There's always fun to be had with Cannon-released ninja films. Franco Nero's mustache in a ninja mask is funny. That is a fact. Nero is somewhat a douchebag in this and Kosugi plays a cliched nemesis. There is some weird dubbing also (Kosugi's evil laugh is ridiculous). Still, the quality of ninja films can be measured in how much different ninja gear there (with unnecessary demonstration scenes) are and what color ninjas are running around. This movie has white, red and black... so that's decent I guess. The MGM DVD-on-demand has actually a decent anamorphic transfer and it is uncut for the first time on DVD.