Revenge of the Ninja | |
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Directed by | Sam Firstenberg |
Written by | James Silke |
Produced by | Menahem Golan Yoram Globus David Womark |
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Cinematography | David Gurfinkel |
Edited by | Michael J. Duthie Mark Helfrich Daniel Wetherbee |
Music by | W. Michael Lewis Laurin Rinder Robert J. Walsh |
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Distributed by | MGM/UA Entertainment Co. |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $700,000[1] |
Box office | $14 million (est.) |
Revenge of the Ninja is a 1983 American martial arts–thriller film directed by Sam Firstenberg, and starring martial artist Sho Kosugi, Keith Vitali, Virgil Frye and Kane Kosugi. The plot follows a ninja trying to protect his only son from a cabal of ruthless gangsters.
It is the second installment in Cannon Films' "Ninja Trilogy" anthology series, starting with Enter the Ninja (1981) and ending with Ninja III: The Domination (1984). It was very successful at the box office, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics.