After an exciting opening credits with ninjas displaying their martial skill against a stark, black background, the film begins with a ninja clad in white going toe-to-toe with another ninja all in black. The opening ninjutsu sequence is easily the best ten minutes in the entire film. I honestly didn’t pay too close of attention to his motives. There he finds a wealthy landowner looking to steal his friend’s land out from under him, presumably to build some high-rise apartments or to farm heroin or some other clichéd 80s action movie shit.
A rivalry forms but just as you think it might be going somewhere awesome, Nero leaves Japan to hang out with his old war buddy in Manila. Whatever, he’s a ninja and Sho Kosugi, another student at the school, objects to Nero’s inclusion in the sacred order.
Ninja, but I have no factual evidence of this. I do like to theorize that because of his involvement, somewhere in the world this film was screened under the title Django vs. Yes, that’s the same Franco Nero that starred in Django and Camelot, and no, I don’t quite understand the logic in casting him as a ninja. As a completionist, I scoffed at these suggestions and soldiered on, receiving a film just about as good as I was led to believe it would be.įranco Nero plays Cole, an American war veteran who has spent the last few years training to become a ninja. It’s been much too long since I watched an 80s ninja flick, so I decided to remedy that with the first film in the unofficial Ninja trilogy featuring Sho Kosugi! Perhaps this wasn’t the best choice to make, as I’d heard from a couple of different sources that this first film is one that can easily be skipped and I would be much better served by the much more famous pseudo-sequel Revenge of the Ninja. Starring Franco Nero, Susan George, Sho Kosugi, Christopher George, Alex Courtney, Will Hare, Zachi Noy, Constantine Gregory, Dale Ishimoto, Joonee GamboaĮxpectations: High, but tempered because I’ve heard this is dumb.
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