Revenge of the Ninja (1983) - Comedic Movie Review
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Ninjas Assemble! We are watching another Cannon Films ninja movie here on Redeye Reviews. Revenge of the Ninja 1983
Starring: Sho Kosugi, Keith Vitali, Virgil Frye, Arthur ROberts, Mario Gallo, Grace Oshita, Ashley Ferrare, Kane Kosugi,
Director: Sam Firstenberg,
Writer: James R. Silke, Menahem Golan,
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Man, back in the day, Sho Kosugi was an icon to every kid with a martial arts fixation 😂
I'm one of them. Sho Kosugi was THE ninja!
Fun fact, the little boy Kane (Kane Kosugi) is the real life son of Sho Kosugi and since Revenge he has kept on acting as a martial artist action star. To this day he is still acting in movies, TV and even has done voice work for video games.
That's awesome! He was so fun
I remember Kane Kosugi in D.O.A. and Godzilla-Final Wars.
Ninja: tear of a shadow, he is the main villain
Everything that is hilarious about this movie now, was the baddest, most awesome thing a kid saw in the 80's. This was a proper rated-R flick, and back in the day, the person in the box office would let unaccompanied toddlers into these movies. If memory serves, there was some gratuitous (as in "thank you") nudity. These were treasured scenes in the days before the internet.
Yeah, Unless the film was rated NC-17 or Adult no one cared, no one took the movie ratings seriously. The film industry and theaters KNEW the majority of their audience would be preteens and teens between the ages of 13 to 15.
I think for the theaters it was ... let whoever will come to watch the movie in or they would have NO business, they would be OUT of business. 🤪
@@josephwintrich7294 You are absolutely right about the economics of the studio-theater system. When they started to card young movie goers trying to get into an R-rated movie, studios realized there wasn't enough profit in R-rated product and started to edit down to PG-13. A movie like this one would be a straight to DVD production these days. Back in the day, it had a prominent spot on the marquee.
Director Sam Firstenberg has a RUclips channel talking about this movie and how batshit crazy it was when he worked for Cannon . He still has the silver mask Braden wore 😄
Fun fact! Ninja from the 80s were the only people who could set the clock on a VCR to stop it from blinking “12:00”!
Still my fave 80s guilty pleasure. This movie contained the immortal line: "Only a NINJA can kill a NINJA!". Also the ninja grandma was awesome 😁
Sho Kosugi was a legend from the 80's please tell me you are going to do 'Nine Deaths of the Ninja' it is a beautifully mental and fun film the bad guy was played by the late Blackie Dammett and for those who dont know who he is, he was the dad of Red Hot Chili Peppers lead singer Anthony Kiedis.
Yes! My fave Kosugi...
Way too horrible of a movie
You’re killing me. I rented this movie from Block Buster like a million times. I subscribed to Ninja Magazines and yes, I bought a ninja suit, grappling hooks, busted my ass trying to scale a wall, my parents wanted me to go to therapy, great times.
Hahaha that is an incredible chidhood
I didn't watch many Ninja movies, but I never missed an episode of The Master.
Sho Kosugi had a recurring role as a Villain on the Master.
That native american goon's actor was in one of the Halloween movies if I remember correctly, he played Michael Myers in it.=D
The best ninja film ever. Finding his baby son alive, chasing the van, the final fight and the breaking of his vow so he can take revenge...pure gold!
Fun Fact: In the video game Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, the moves for the protagonist ninja character, "Rikimaru," were based on Sho Kosugi's. While the moves for the villain ninja, "Onikage," were based on his son Kane's.
I saw these back when they were in theaters, during the "Ninja Craze". A lot of good memories, including a 7-yr-old self with neighborhood friends running 🏃♀️around in ninja outfits and literally throwing shuriken stars at each other...Yes, we all had parents btw Who do you think bought us the ninja gear ⚙?
P.S. I owned one of those shuriken belt buckles at the time, too, and for several years afterwards. Never got to use it for anything practical, though, like someone shooting 🔫 a gun at me.
Oh those belts were the best!
How did none of us die from flea market ninja stars?
Revenge of the Ninja is classic ninja movie of all time
Starring the legendary Sho Kosugi and the DROP dead GORGEOUS Ashley Ferrare💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Agreed! It is fantastic :)
The shot of the ninja bleeding out on the rooftop looked pretty sweet to be honest. If this was my channel i'd probably have that in my favourite shots segment!
Oh totally agree!
Yes, that was very artistic - it's like the wind was blowing through him.
The movie Pray For Death is also worth checking out. It's actually a little darker and more dramatic than this movie.
i find it weird that in the 80's they were obsessed with ninjas lol
It was a strange time indeed. But one I am super grateful for now, because I get to rewatch all of these insane movies haha
Ninjas were mystical characters back then. Portrayed as able to almost anything the plot required. Then the UFC came along and debunked all that shit lol.
@@1977clee Compares B-movie studio characters to real life. Claims something was "debunked". Mythbusters did a lot of great work debunkig stupid Hollywood "truths" (a car will always explode in any crash etc) and other urban legends I'm amazed people are stupid enough to believe in the first place.
As for the UFC. Brawling for brutes. Meaning no serious and genuine martial artist master would want to go anywhere near it. The reason? Anything goes in UFC. People die. That's a like Navy Seal or Marine deciding they can make much more money and fight in much more wars by becoming a frickin' *mercenary* . No self-respecting elite unit soldier would want to sink to mercenary level. And the same goes for the UFC.
The only stuntman name cooler than Dick Hancock is his Chinese counterpart Dickie Dong.
I legit Googled that name lol. I want Dickie Dong to be real SO bad
Used to rent this all the time when I was a kid. Reconnected with it many years later. I still love this flick. Fun fact-the goon playing the Native American is Donald Shanks. Shanks would play Michael Myers in Halloween 5.
Your reenactment of dead ninjas in trees and on roofs is so spot on. Hahaha and lovely snow capped mountains of Salt Angeles 6. @6:57
Hello from Salt Los Lake Angeles City Utafornia. In fact, you can see the neighborhood where my house is in at 14:58. Pointless fact? About as pointless as an animatronic ninja arm coming out of a bathtub to create tension! But it’s fun to see your house in a film.
Fun fact: 9:54 is how EXACTLY how Mormons dress in their down time! 😆😆
What another great review my friend! And it’s not that Ninja III: The Domination is better per se, it’s just weirder. I think Revenge of the Ninja has better thought out fight scenes, but Ninja III (especially the opening fight scene) is just something special. Plus, it has Special K from the Breakin’ movies…so top notch talent! I can’t wait for the review. Cheers and I hope the heat breaks soon.
Haha that is so cool to see your own house in a movie. So you live there you can verify the level of craftsmanship the local ninja gangs are capable of. Because you have got to go to their craft show at some point haha.
9:54 I knew it! The fashion is just too great to not be tied to real life ideals.
I can't wait to see what gets weirder than this. But I agree. The fight sequences in this movie were legit. Actually really awesome scenes.
So glad you enjoyed the video :)
So the roof: is it a hotel or the place of any famous Utan (or how people from Utah are called?)?
fun fact:
Cathy (Ashley Ferrare) is also in The Master, a TV series of "American Ninja" quality, where she plays a character named Kathy
Dude
This channel should be a show that comes on adult swim at 2:15am every Thursday and Saturday
Lol sign me up!
Mate you should definitely do a review of Avenging Force from the 80’s (with Dudikoff and Steve James)…it’s right up this channel’s alley 👍
Oooo done and done What a great movie name.
Damn! Dude turned into Rononoa Zoro with those arrows. 😂
Cannon films was King of the 80's!! Sho Kosugi was on pretty much every Ninja poster sold at that time too. Do a review on Pray for Death.
"Revenge of the Ninja" sounds like something you get after eating to much sushi
Great film and very 80's and I love it
Revenge of the Ninja is the quintessential 80s ninja flick. Non-stop action and violence, Sho Kosugi (who else), Professor what’s-his-name from The Running Man, kung-fu granny, blood geysers. That guy really did look like a vulture 🤣🤣🤣
Oh my this movie was an instant classic for me. First time watching it was for this review. And it was awesome. My kinda movie for sure! And human vulture just improved it lol
Still laughing at vulture man 🤣🤣🤣 you should do Pray for Death, was a lot more serious and vicious for a Kosugi movie but quite decent. Hard to find an uncut version as it was pretty heavily cut for its R-rating. The end fight, involving nunchucks, throwing stars, knives, axes, circular saws and a freakin’ chainsaw has to be seen to be believed!!
Professor Toru Tanaka.
You forgot the blonde eye candy
When you watched so many of these Movies, that you can go "Hey, the Dad is the 'Nine Deaths of the Ninja' Guy!"
At training camp we had what we called "arm parties". We did curls until we couldn't lift our arms.
he found his family massacred and not shed a tear like a badass
FYI at 9:54 that is Steven Lambert as the blue cowboy. He was the stunt/fight double for the silver masked ninja. He was also the stunt double for Sho Kosugi, during the car case scenes.
The beginning look like the origin of scorpion 🦂. Speaking of that please do mortal combat the OGs
I totally need to!
Loving the reviews man. Question are you gonna be reviewing van Damme and other action stars like Jackie Chan and jet Lee?
Thank you so much! Absolutely. I think it's time to put JCVD or Jackie in the mix. You pick a movie sir. I'll start with the one you suggest. So NO pressure lol
Do Bloodsport for Jean-Claude and Jackie Rumble in the Bronx
@@lastsamurai4710 ooo great choices. Done and done
What’s the film where Christopher Lambert learns to be a Samurai. Have you reviewed that?
Love the film, love the soundtrack, love Kosugi. To this day still keep the VHS from back in the day.Thanks.
This is in my opinion the greatest Ninja movie ever made.
The makers of this movie seemingly don't know anything about saunas. Still, as a Finn, it's always cool to see the sauna in some foreign movie. For example, Jason Voorhees has done one kill with a stove stone. 😎
How the hell is Cho alive. He was beheaded in Enter the 🥷 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe he was in different characters.
The movies don’t even connect sho kosugi plays different characters on each movie
this movie is legendary, its still the best ninja movie ever made!
I used to rent this movie all the time when I was a kid. My dad always got sick of seeing this movie and return of swamp thing. Not sure how he felt about return to Oz.
i have a younger bro who always catches me watching this movie over and over and he would say "this movie again?!" lol hilarious
I remember watching this movie as a kid. It's a crazy movie, but I think it's the best 80s ninja movie ever... Hahaha
Wish you did have that belt buckle patent but they actually used to sell those things in the back of Ninja magazine. And yes, there used to be a Ninja magazine.
That is amazing
I knew some kids in the 80s who took gears off their bikes and sharpened them into throwing stars because of this movie lol 😅. Dangerous times.
One of the worst films from the 80s and yet one of my favorite films from the 80s.
It’s so bad it’s good
🤔🙄wait a minute!.... this is the same start from the new mortal kombat movie!!!😳
I loved your Village People joke.😆
Fun fact: Steven Lambert who is playing the cowboy is also the masked ninja
7:04 A guy's combover gets kicked off his head as he hits the wall, amazing!
I had to watch this movie every night before bed when I was 8 or so
What a great movie! Lol amazing
@@RedEyeReviews oh you gotta do "The Hunted" (1995) for your next ninja movie. With Christopher Lambert, it's actually pretty good. For a ninja movie in 1995 Japan with Christopher Lambert. He even kills a fully trained (?) ninja, because the ninja has to use his left hand in the fight lol. So this would naturally neutralize the evil ninjas fighting ability enough that an un-trained over weight business man could realistically defeat said evil ninja. - lol it's good
Oh! there is a great battle on a bullet train. That was kinda awesome
@@TheRedjack77 done and done!
I cant count how many Times i rented this movie in my teens and after me and my friends trained as ninjas 😂😂
For my next vacation it will be in salt lake angeles!
Thank you so much for this one hahaha literally my favorite red eye so far haha it’s the best when you’re just having a good time hahaha 🤣
Thank you! This movie is so ridiculous. It's a reason why I'm now obsessed with ninja movies lol
I don't know if it's patented but I had one of those ninja star belt buckles as a kid.
Oh man I like this movie a heck of a lot more than Enter the Ninja or Ninja 3
There's one Sho Kosugi movie that no one has mentioned in the comments, therefore you MUST review, called 9 Deaths of the Ninja. Trust me, it's RedEye-worthy!
FYI there's a famous stuntman named Dick Warlock...apparently his is magical...
No way! That is the best name so far.
That vulture man is kinda like Joe Pesci
Right?!
He reminds me more of Al Lewis from the Munsters.
Some kids go tp preschool but I watched this. Made me who I am today.
This is my favorite ninja movie. It's definitely the best.
This movie has so many unintentionally hilarious moments 😂😂😂😂🤣
At points in the final fight scene you can actually see the U on the mountain for the University of Utah.
Why does the opening of this movie remind me so much of the new Mortal Kombat film, except it’s Braiden instead of Raiden playing devils advocate.
Oh Redeye, you sir are THE shit lol , I love your reviews man
Aww thank you friend!
Ninja hypnosis ends upon the job being completed.
You missed the best parts by like 1 second:.
After. Gramma says she doesn't trust him, it cuts to him looking obviously like the bad guy
When he's torturing the kid he laughs, closed the door, looks back in the window and laughs again
When cho cones down the hall way his friend is suffering, then immediately perks up and chuckles before his dying quip to
Another long sequence of hand signs, performed with the highest amount of effort.
Well yeah of course he goes after them, don’t you remember how long he said it takes to make just one doll and how expensive it is
Finished the third Kosugi review of yours, guesses I watched them out of order. 😆
He was so awesome back in the day. His kid's fight scene towards the beginning was really well done, especially for that time.
I have to disagree with whoever told you Ninja III was the best, I go with this one and put III second...Enter the Ninja sucks.
I'm going to do a quick search and see if you have a review on a particular early 90s martial arts flick.
i loved these movies so much. i really need to do more ninja movies soon
@@RedEyeReviews not ninja related, but have you ever seen Jeff Speakman's The Perfect Weapon from '91?
Finishing up your Street Fighter review at the moment.
@@Eternally_Sardonic I luv perfect weapon,speakman is a beast...
@@napoleonwilson6499 I remember after watching that when it came out that I really thought he'd have a much bigger acting career than he did.
At 17:17 Dude, is that you RedEye? 😳
Hahahaha. I WISH I had one of those expanding staff things
Professional Doll Theives LMAO
Wait, so he's got a mask over his mask because he's afraid his silver mask is too identifiable and thus must conceal it, albeit poorly? This script is uh, not very good, is it? Kinda like they didn't have a writer so much as a dude who watched too many kung fu films and his whole pitch was "ninjas but cooler because papier mache!"
Right?! Lol my mask is too unique. I need a mask for it
@@RedEyeReviews I am the best ninja because everyone recognises me! Shit, I'm the worst ninja because everyone recognises me!
5:00 Didn't we all learn as kids NOT to put a cut finger in our bacteria-infested mouths?
5:21 A kid that age oughtta know better. Gotta have a catalyst, though.
9:21 Ackchyually, it's called a "keyup."
That belt buckle you used to be able to buy. Was advertised in Black Belt magazine. Just for show, you couldn't throw it
this is an amazing action movie for kids
Nope, no one can break bones like that, not even with a bat, only a ninja
Back in the 80's,us kids/teenagers could buy real ninja stars and other weapons.What was great,was that the ninja stars and weapons were real.GOD bless the 80s when kids could get real weapons!
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@@paulallen8109 bs? Umm,nope.Ninja stars and other weapons were easily available to be purchased back in the 80's.Hell,kids in the boyscouts could have guns and their was a badge for that and their are Boy Scout instruction films about teaching Boy Scouts on how to use them.
Steven lambert played the evil mask ninja 🥷 most of the movie as Braden Cause the actor Arthur Robert’s wasent athletic and wasent a professional fighter so he only made the scenes were he wasent with the ninja suit and when he’s not wearing the mask 😷 it was already too late to find a better actor so they kept him for the whole movie finale when cho kills him and ripped his face mask apart 😊
This movie was awesome
I remember this movie from when I was A Kid Great review keep up the Good Work
You're Review Is Hilarious. 😂😂😂😂
Thank you so much!
Speaking of Kosugi, can you do Pray for Death?
HAYAH "punts a leaf
basically
Biggest lie I was told as a child; "You can't grow up to be a ninja.".
Jump to now: Japan is short on ninjas, there are news articles about it.
i dont know what your talking about,ive seen this master piece of none stop action and a class acting a hundred times.i give this movie a 10
im also a mental patient.
Maybe explain it with Jackie Chan parkour
Well bags of cans can weigh something, when you take them to recycle if they are paying for them they weigh the bags so there’s some weight to those cans
Did we just witness the first wet t-shirt torture? Is that where all the CIA dollars go? Because spring break in Florida has been using that method for years
Hey, are you ever going to do Charles Bronson movies?
Yes absolutely :)
Fun fact, little boy Kane Kosugi later became an action star but had his some what upper facing nose surgically fixed. Of course, this is evident from footage but isn't official info like it was for Jackie Chan, so yeah, Jackie was a boss for owning up to his plastic surgery as well, what a beast !
gold!!!!!!
So glad you liked it :)
WTF? The new Mortal Kombat movie just remade this film?!? Definitely ripped part of it.
Ridiculous but back then its was awesome movies.... Canon film almost raised me!
do a review on Ninja Assasins
You do it!
Just kidding its on the list
The beginning of this movie is a little Mortal Kombat in a way... that white dude is Raiden?...or Rayden for my SNS disciples.
So was the roof from a Hotel or some important utan (is this the name for people from Utah) they were allowed to use?
Good question. we can ask The Lost One. He is from Utah.
4:04 this is basically like "All asian kids knows martial arts".
WHAT?? You totally missed Shoko Asahara from Aum Shinrikyo manhandling that little child at 11:12
I hope this one is better than the last one I watched or tried to watch and didn’t finish.
Hey! Wam-Bam is that caine...no idea what Bam-Bam is....but it ain't H.
Loved this movie