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Rating: 7 stars

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Ninja martial arts tokyo Japanese murder female martial artist betrayal sword subway new york city decapitation

All movies seen on 04/30/2023

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Ninja (2009)

Directed by Isaac Florentine

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Most recently watched by sensoria, seanCduregger, krazykat, noahphex, jenerator

Overview

A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.

Rated R | Length 83 minutes

Actors

Scott Adkins | Todd Jensen | Tsuyoshi Ihara | Mika Hijii | Togo Igawa | Garrick Hagon | Miles Anderson | Valentin Ganev | Atanas Srebrev | Fumio Demura | Masaki Onishi | Nikolai Sotirov | Kenji Motomiya | Asen Asenov | Ivailo Dimitrov | Kathryn Le | Judith Michelle Hill | Meglena Karalambova | Dimiter Doichinov | Velizar Peev | Assen Blatechki

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

A lot of hokey ass shit in this movie but I give it props for making a well-worn retread premise interesting thanks to a capable Scott Adkins and Tsuyoshi Ihara as his terrible brother (bad brother goes rogue and good brother has to take him down, which has been used in martial arts films esp ninja movies since they started making them). Anytime the action stops the movie crumples under this thin plot but when Adkins or Ihara is mixing it up, it’s fun again.

Altho Mika Hijii has a long career in genre tv and movies, she’s not v good here. Would’ve preferred she was killed early to give Scott more motivation to seek out his brother. Maybe that’s in the next movie? I forget.

The sword being the antidote is also so fucking dumb. Wow that is dumb. But Florentine’s direction is super solid and he knows how to shoot a fight sequence so my soft 7 out of 10 stands. Jay Hawk says… check it out.

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