Mary Ann comes to Cole during the night and the two have an affair. In the aftermath, Frank gets drunk and confesses to Cole that he is impotent.
Cole thwarts the local henchmen hired by Venarius to bully and coerce the Landers.Ĭole and Frank infiltrate Venarius’ base, and defeat a number of his henchmen. Cole soon discovers the reason for the harassment when he finds out that there is a large oil deposit located beneath their land.
Cole soon finds that the Landers are being repeatedly harassed by a wealthy CEO named Charles Venarius who is attempting to force them to sell their property. Cole goes to visit his war buddy Frank Landers and Frank’s newlywed wife, Mary Ann Landers, who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. In 2015, the film was released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.Įnter the Ninja (1981) is about Cole, a veteran of the Angolan Bush War, who completes his ninjutsu training in Japan. The film had also been distributed on DVD in the UK by Lighthouse (2001) and Optimum Entertainment (2011).
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The film has been released on VHS and Beta during the 1980s, but an official US DVD release had long eluded the masses until MGM issued as part of its Limited Edition Collection (a series of manufactured-on-demand DVD-Rs) in October 2011.
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Today people criticize the film for its “cheesy acting” and a few critics appreciate the film and it has garnered a “cult following” as the original ninja movie that started the “80’s craze”. Production was started in the Philippines with Emmett Alston directing, but when Charles Bronson refused to allow Menahem Golan to direct Death Wish II, Golan, a co-principal of Cannon Group which was producing both movies, took over directing duties of Ninja. Some critics complained of its occasional campy tone while some praised the production values of the relatively low-budget film. Enter the Ninja is a 1981 martial arts action-thriller directed by Menahem Golan and starring Franco Nero, Susan George and Sho Kosugi. All the fight sequences in Enter the Ninja (1981) were choreographed by Mike Stone and therefore were very realistic and at times dangerous.Īt the time Enter the Ninja (1981) was released, reviews from critics were mixed to positive.