3/30/2024 0 Comments Enter the ninja blu ray![]() ![]() (Remember this: it becomes important later!) Cole packs up his ninja suit and associated arsenal and heads to the Philippines to visit his old war buddy, Frank, and meet his new wife, Mary-Ann (Susan George). After successfully dispatching all of his classmates in an extremely dangerous-looking jungle warfare simulation, we see him declared a master of ninjutsu this sparks an odd beef with classmate Hasegawa (Sho Kosugi), who has a problem with the idea of a non-Japanese ninja. We’re introduced to middle-aged badass Cole (Nero) at his graduation from Ninja School. His crazy choice to hire 40-year-old spaghetti Western star Franco Nero to play the film’s (literal) “white ninja” may seem suspect, but the odd casting is just where the delightful nuttiness of Enter the Ninja begins. The film was directed by b-movie king Menahem Golan, one half of the team behind The Cannon Group, the legendary production company that produced such VHS-era gems as Delta Force, Masters of the Universe, Breakin’ and Cobra. (Just look at that shameless, knockoff title!) Practically by accident, however, it was a major international hit, and started the ninja mania of the 1980s: a pop cultural obsession that spread across movies, cartoons, comic books, and video games of the era. Enter the Ninja was likely intended as nothing more than a slapdash cash-in on the 1970s’ martial arts movie craze. ![]()
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