Their is so much wrong with this movie — which makes it soooooo right. I had a friend who saw this in some theater way back in the 1980s and he was suddenly the local expert on the hereto unheard of art of Ninjitsu. It wasn’t until I saw Enter the Ninja that I realized that he received all of his information from the film and not from some secret school he attended that summer.
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Oh man. I always remembered that this and The Octagon came out the same summer, but Octagon was Aug 80 and Enter the Ninja not until Oct 81. Octagon began a short but fun phase of Black Belt magazine and mail order Shurikens and Nunchaku. I thought that a pair of “chucks” made of cocobolo wood sounded mysterious. What they were was HEAVY. My friends all laughed when I got them and could hardly lift them. It was like weight training however, and before long I was wicked faster than any of them (when using their lighter sticks), but I still had to make my own sound effects to make it sound like Bruce Lee’s nunchuks cutting through the air. We were dorks. Morgan
This movie blew, but Kosugi was always fun to watch.