Enter the Ninja

Infobox Film | name = Enter the Ninja


caption = Official DVD cover
director = Menahem Golan
producer = Yoram Globus
Menahem Golan
writer = Dick Desmond
Mike Stone
starring = Franco Nero
Susan George
Shô Kosugi
Christopher George
music = W. Michael Lewis
Laurin Rinder
cinematography = David Gurfinkel
editing = Michael J. Duthie
Mark Goldblatt
distributor = Cannon Films
MGM / United Artists
released = 1981 (USA)
runtime = 101 min.
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:15901
imdb_id = 0082332
preceded_by =
followed_by = "Revenge of the Ninja"

"Enter the Ninja" is a 1981 martial arts film directed by Menahem Golan and starring Franco Nero, Susan George and Shô Kosugi.

Plot

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 (Christopher George) in order to get them to sell their property, because unbeknownst to them a large oil deposit is located beneath their land. After beginning to thwart Venarius's hired henchmen their attempts to bully and coerce the Landers into the selling of their property to Venarius, Cole eventually finds himself facing an old rival from the days of his training -- Hasegawa (Shô Kosugi), who was hired by Venarius as an assassin to eliminate Cole.

Quotes

* Dollars: "So who are you going to kill next, Mr. Ninja?": Cole: "My friend, a ninja doesn't kill. He eliminates and only for defensive purposes."

* Charles Venarius: "I want a ninja. Find me a ninja. I want Lander's land!"

* Hasegawa: "He is no ninja!"

equels

"Enter the Ninja" is the first film in a series of "Ninja" films, the second being "Revenge of the Ninja" and the third being "", although they are not directly related to one another in terms of storyline. According to IMDB a recent follow up, "The Return Of The Ninja", will be released in 2008.

External links

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* [http://10kbullets.com/reviews/enter-the-ninja/ Review of "Enter the Ninja" on www.10kbullets.com]