The Jewish immigration to America is well-documented, but how did the ninja immigrate? In 1980, author Eric Van Lustbader’s thriller, The Ninja, hit the New York Times best-seller list for five months and was promptly optioned by 20th Century Fox who pledged a $20 million budget and lined up super-producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown ( The Sting, Jaws) to make them a ninja movie. Ninjas are small in number but extremely powerful and capable of taking out much larger opponents, like Israel.
Both groups like black clothing, obey ancient traditions, and have strict codes of behavior that must be followed or they lose their power. Cannon formed the molten core of ninja movies because it was founded by two Israelis, Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan, who understood that ninjas are basically supercool Jews.
#Cast of enter the ninja series#
Ninja (87), Twinkle Ninja Fantasy (87), Ninja, Phantom Heroes USA (88), and Thunder Ninja Kids: Wonderful Mission (91) are just a few of these ninja nature films.īut there are two series that are the most deadly of them all, and both are from Cannon Films: American Ninja 1 – 5 and the Ninja Trilogy of Enter the Ninja (81), Revenge of the Ninja (83), and Ninja III: The Domination (84).
#Cast of enter the ninja full#
Rage of Ninja (88), A Life of Ninja (83), Clash of the Ninjas (87), Born a Ninja (91), Bionic Ninja (86), Full Metal Ninja (88), Shaolin vs.
The only way to study the ninja safely, without him shooting throwing stars through both your eyes, is to capture him on film, and many brave souls have sacrificed everything to bring him to the silver screen. Since the dawn of time, man’s natural predator has been the ninja.
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