80s ninja movies rule.

Most of my 80s time was spent either playing arcade games (Altered Beast represent!) or making shuriken (thats a ninja throwing star for the uninitiated) and throwing them at my friends. And then we watched ninja movies.

Ninja movies in the 80s followed a familiar formula:

Our hero has a background in either the martial arts or the military. Badguys hire some bad ninjas to kidnap his girl/friend/family/master and he must soul search before opening a case he keeps that contains his ninja suit (that is a different color to the bad ninjas).

He then opens a fat can off whoop-ass on the bad ninjas, ends up fighting the big boss at the endand rescuing the hostage.

So, not much different from the video game plots either.

By far one of the best 80s ninja movies is American Ninja.

B-movie superstar Michael Dudikofff plays our hero Joe Armstrong (Rambo Ninja) who is (wait for it) an orphaned amnesiac rebel drifter.(Rad)




Joe finds himself on an American Army base in the Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. The base comes under repeated attacks by local ninjas (local ninjas! RAD!)who are after the military equipment that their leader, Ortega, plans to sell to the highest bidder.

Ortega’s top henchman is Black Star Ninja,(Rad) who runs a training camp to train Ortega's private ninja army.(RAD!) In the end, Joe must use his secret martial arts skills to defeat the bad guys and rescue his girlfriend, with the help of his new buddies in the army and his long-lost mentor.

HOW RAD IS THAT?!

And then there is the cheesiest of all 80s ninja movies: Ninja Terminator.

With a title like that, how can you go wrong?

Here is the final fight scene featuring camouflage ninja (Rad) (played by Tom Selleck wannabe Richard Harrison) taking on the evil red ninja in order to reassemble the golden ninja warrior for the good of the ninja empire.

Read that again: 'in order to reassemble the golden ninja warrior for the good of the ninja empire'. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!




Richard Harrison also appeared in Ninja Squad as what can only be described as big gay ninja. He fights McDonalds ninja in the final scene. (Not Rad).

THEY BOTH WEAR HEADBANDS THAT SAY 'NINJA' RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!




80s Ninjas rule.

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