This was a VHS and cable stable throughout the 1980’s and early 90’s, so if you’re a Cannon completist or a hardcore fan of Kosugi or ninja films in general, then this recent release should be a must-own.
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The movie has never looked or sounded better, even compared to MGM’s 2011 DVD-on-Demand release, which looked and sounded better than any previous release before that. Thanks to Kino Lorber’s “Studio Classics” label, Enter the Ninja is now available to own on high-definition Blu-ray. He screams and hollers for help while ninja stars are being flung all around him, and it’s just cartoony. The villain (played by Christopher George) is an idiot. His hot wife sleeps with Cole during the night, and the next morning Frank is talking about how he feels like a man again. And his buddy Frank is the biggest wet blanket ever. I love ninjas, I love Kosugi who’s always so serious, but Franco Nero as a white garbed ninja? I’m not sure I love that. I’m not sure if it was amusing the first time I saw it when I was much younger, but this stuff is pretty ridiculous now. Cole helps them out by fighting off the thugs who come calling during the night, but when the problem escalates to the point when Cole’s rival Hasegawa is called in from Japan to eliminate them, shit gets real. Frank and his wife Mary Ann (Susan George) are being harassed by a wealthy businessman because the plantation is sitting in the middle of an oil field.
Cole leaves the ninja clan to visit an old war buddy Frank (Alex Courtney), who’s living in Manila on a plantation. In this film, Franco Nero plays Cole, a newly inducted master of ninjutsu, and his rival, an embittered Hasegawa (played by Sho Kosugi, in his first notable ninja movie), holds a grudge against him for not being Japanese.
After this came Revenge of the Ninja and American Ninja. Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review: Menahem Golan, director and producer at The Cannon Film Group, saw potential in bringing Japanese ninja movies to western audiences, and Enter the Ninja (which he directed) is the first big westernized ninja movie that made a dent in western consciousness. Co-starring Susan George (Sudden Terror) and Christopher George (Day of the Animals). The two masters make use of all the exotic weaponry at their disposal… making this one of the most sensational battle-to-the-death sequences ever filmed! Hollywood legend Menahem Golan (The Delta Force) directed this fast-paced, high quality, tough-as-nails martial arts film with style and poise. Coming to the aid of his friends against some land grabbing oil barons, he easily takes on all opponents until a Ninja assassin Hasegawa (Sho Kosugi, Revenge of the Ninja) is brought into the fray. Set in Japan and the Philippines, the film tells the story of Cole (Franco Nero, The Mercenary) a westerner who’s been inducted into the secret fighting rituals of the Ninja. Plot: The Ninja is the highest honor given to the dedicated followers of Ninjutsu, the deadliest of all martial arts… Enter the Ninja explores the absorbing detail the Ninja’s lethal, little-known Art of Invisibility which includes the use of hypnotism, explosives, and super-human acrobatic fighting skills. But that’s okay, right? If you’ve read this review up to this point, then you’re this movie’s target audience. In 2015, Enter the Ninja is goofy, like really goofy. Sho Kosugi’s first appearance in a big movie is still pretty great. In 1981, Enter the Ninja was probably badass.
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