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Enter the Ninja
1981 · Director: Menahem Golan · US
What it is about
A graduate of Japanese ninja training comes to help a friend on a plantation in the Philippines.
The fighting in it
The film that started the 1980s ninja wave. It has almost nothing to do with documented historical ninjutsu — it is a cinematic construct, yet one that fundamentally shaped the public image of the ninja.
Martial arts in the film
Who appears in it
- Wesley Snipesactor
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