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Best Ninja Movies

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  • Tsuyoshi Ihara in Ninja (2009)

    1. Ninja

    20091h 26mR
    5.5 (14K)
    A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.
    DirectorIsaac FlorentineStarsScott AdkinsTsuyoshi IharaMika Hijii
  • Shô Kosugi in Enter the Ninja (1981)

    2. Enter the Ninja

    19811h 39mR35Metascore
    5.2 (5.9K)
    After passing a ninja master test in Japan, Cole visits a war buddy in the Philippines. He helps him fight men, who want his buddy's plantation.
    DirectorMenahem GolanStarsFranco NeroSusan GeorgeShô Kosugi
  • Ninja Scroll (1993)

    3. Ninja Scroll

    19931h 34mNot Rated
    7.8 (43K)
    A vagabond swordsman is aided by a kunoichi and a spy in battling a demonic clan of killers - led by a ghost from his past - who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.
    DirectorYoshiaki KawajiriStarsKôichi YamaderaEmi ShinoharaTakeshi Aono
  • The Ninja Mission (1984)

    4. The Ninja Mission

    19841h 33mR
    4.1 (781)
    Swedish scientist named Karl Markov is taken hostage by the KGB. After his daughter Nadia is also kidnapped and brought deep into the heart of Russia, a group of highly trained ninjas, led by American CIA agent Mason, is ordered to get them out.
    DirectorMats Helge OlssonStarsKrzysztof KolbergerHanna BieniuszewiczBo F. Munthe
  • Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

    5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    20031h 51mR69Metascore
    8.2 (1.3M)
    After waking from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
    DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineDaryl Hannah
  • The Dagger of Kamui (1985)

    6. The Dagger of Kamui

    19852h 12mNot Rated
    6.9 (837)
    An orphan named Taro killed who Tein-Hei told her was the killer of his family. Taro found out, years later that Tein-Hei is the true killer and the man he killed was his father. Taro's revenge attempts start off a trail of assassinations and ninja swords fights spanning from Hokaido, Alaska to California where Tien-Hei's secrets gradually unfold. The revenge road leads to a climactic battle with Tien-Hei on the fall of Japan's Shogun-era.
    DirectorShigeyuki HayashiStarsHiroyuki SanadaMami KoyamaTarô Ishida
  • Diamond Ninja Force (1988)

    7. Diamond Ninja Force

    19881h 32mPG-13
    3.5 (235)
    We begin with Shô Kosugi demonstrating the use of a katana, saying nothing about the film he is introducing. When Gordon is taking his girlfriend's picture in Hong Kong, several Caucasian thugs led by a Chinese man, Kogan, threaten her, so he beats them up. Elsewhere, Bernard Wong pays his workers extra money to continue digging his land after discovering human bones. The thugs are members of the Black Ninja Clan, whose dead are buried on Wong's site. One of their operatives strangles Gordon's girlfriend, believing she knows where Gordon has hidden the Golden Ninja statue that apparently gives him power and won't say, while another hires Ghost Ninja, a beautiful witch dressed in white to kill Wong, his daughter Fanny, her husband George, and her son, Bobo, for three million dollars. Fanny is frightened by a cat in the house upon move-in, and the Black Ninja leader keeps swinging her sword to hallucinate frogs jumping to their deaths out of her refrigerator and her soup ladle turning into a flying snake (strung on a wire that is highly visible without pausing despite being a split-second shot). The witch keeps spooking Fanny and Bobo, who insists on riding his bike in the living room, but George doesn't believe either of them. Gordon (sitting in front of a poster of a strangled woman marked "this could happen to you" and another poster of a swimsuit model) responds to their complaints (in shot-reverse shot, as they're obviously not in the same film) and commands Magic Chan, a wizard with a magic mirror he has forgotten, and his obese sidekick, Firecracker, in the same manor, and frequently keeps in touch on the phone after his Caucasian operative living next door, Sara, is murdered by a zombie man. Sometimes he uses a black phone, but more often it is a Garfield phone (which the camera moves and music suggest is supposed to be funny). The Ghost Ninja is more interested in her own desires than killing the family, and masturbates to the couple's lovemaking before spiriting herself into Fanny's vagina (there is no full-frontal nudity) in order to lure George away from her, though she makes him physically ill, as she did to Bobo by stuffing his mouth full of handfuls of grass. The Ghost Ninja, once compelled by the Black Ninja leader, calls upon more women like dressed her, plus one impersonating Bobo's grandmother as a lure for him, and the zombie man, in an all-out assault against the family, while the two bumbling idiots (Firecracker and Magic Chan) are having a drinking contest, and Gordon, in a red ninja suit, who has been offing the Caucasian ninjas, prepares to confront Kogan, the Black Ninja leader.
    DirectorGodfrey HoStarsRichard HarrisonMelvin PitcherAndy Chworowsky
  • Tomisaburô Wakayama and Akihiro Tomikawa in Shogun Assassin (1980)

    8. Shogun Assassin

    19801h 25mR
    7.3 (12K)
    When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.
    DirectorsRobert HoustonKenji MisumiStarsTomisaburô WakayamaKayo MatsuoMinoru Ôki
  • Ninja, a Band of Assassins (1962)

    9. Ninja, a Band of Assassins

    19621h 44mNot Rated
    7.0 (1.1K)
    A young ninja becomes embroiled in a plot to kill a tyrannical warlord. He journeys across feudal Japan, facing deceit, betrayal, and enemy ninja at every turn. Goemon must complete his mission, regain his honor, and survive.
    DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsRaizô IchikawaShiho FujimuraYûnosuke Itô
  • Revenge of the Ninja (1983)

    10. Revenge of the Ninja

    19831h 30mR32Metascore
    6.0 (6.2K)
    After ninjas killed his family, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When his friend betrays him, Cho must prepare for the ultimate battle.
    DirectorSam FirstenbergStarsShô KosugiKeith VitaliVirgil Frye
  • Michael Dudikoff and Tadashi Yamashita in American Ninja (1985)

    11. American Ninja

    19851h 35mR20Metascore
    5.5 (18K)
    American soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single-handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines.
    DirectorSam FirstenbergStarsMichael DudikoffSteve JamesJudie Aronson
  • Izo (2004)

    12. Izo

    20042h 8mNot Rated
    6.0 (4.8K)
    An executed samurai takes an existential journey throughout time, space and eternity in search of bloody vengeance.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKazuya NakayamaKaori MomoiRyûhei Matsuda
  • Goemon (2009)

    13. Goemon

    20092h 8m
    6.6 (5.6K)
    Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon in an epic story. One night while looting treasure from Nanban, Goemon finds a mysterious box hidden inside a secret grave. A forgotten relic from the past containing untold powers.
    DirectorKazuaki KiriyaStarsYôsuke EguchiTakao OsawaRyôko Hirosue
  • Aya Ueto in Azumi (2003)

    14. Azumi

    20032h 8mNot Rated49Metascore
    6.7 (15K)
    Raised to deal in cold blooded death, the teenage assassin girl Azumi must defeat three evil warlords while also battling her own heart.
    DirectorRyûhei KitamuraStarsAya UetoKenji KohashiHiroki Narimiya
  • Ninja vs. Ninja (1987)

    15. Ninja vs. Ninja

    1987
    3.5 (120)
    DirectorLik CheungStarsNorman ChuWilson TongMan Yee Wong
  • Lucinda Dickey in Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

    16. Ninja III: The Domination

    19841h 32mR25Metascore
    5.4 (5.5K)
    An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman's body.
    DirectorSam FirstenbergStarsShô KosugiLucinda DickeyJordan Bennett
  • Five Elements Ninjas (1982)

    17. Five Elements Ninjas

    19821h 47mR
    7.2 (3.4K)
    A Chinese martial arts school is infiltrated and destroyed by ninjas. Tian Hao survives the massacre and seeks to uncover the trickery of ninjutsu in order to beat the Five Element Ninjas and avenge his family.
    DirectorCheh ChangStarsTien-Chi ChengTien-Hsiang LungMeng Lo
  • Zombie vs. Ninja (1989)

    18. Zombie vs. Ninja

    19891h 28mNot Rated
    3.0 (632)
    Ethan, a young man, is beaten while his father is killed by a group of thieves. With the help of an undertaker, Ethan trains in kung fu by fighting the dead. Meanwhile, an American Ninja, Dragon, must fend off against the thieves and their ninja henchmen. It is soon that Dragon and Ethan team up to defeat the thieves and the ninjas.
    DirectorGodfrey HoStarsPierre KirbyEdowan BersmeaDewey Bosworth
  • Lethal Ninja (1992)

    19. Lethal Ninja

    19921h 37mR
    3.4 (288)
    An American ninja's wife is held hostage by a sadistic Nazi chemist on an Asian island. He teams up with an African-American ninja to rescue her.
    DirectorYossi WeinStarsRoss KettleNorman CoombesDavid Webb
  • Dayo Wong in Chung gik yan je (2006)

    20. Chung gik yan je

    20061h 34mNot Rated
    5.8 (82)
    A super cute Ninja works with her masterto protecta street musiciannamed Copy. Evil mastermindBrian suspects that Copy holds the key to opening a mysterious red box that contans jinrui that is a substance that cures any disease.
    DirectorHerman YauStarsWei ChenShengyi HuangEddy Ko
  • The Black Ninja (2003)

    21. The Black Ninja

    20031h 30mNot RatedVideo
    2.2 (258)
    Infamous defense attorney Malik Ali's haunted past causes him to double as a vigilante ninja, defending the cities worst thugs by day and battling them by night. While protecting a beautiful witness, in a case against a ruthless mobster, Malik is led closer to the evil ninja that killed his wife and children years ago.
    DirectorClayton PrinceStarsClayton PrinceCarla BrothersNicky DeMatteo
  • Afro Ninja (2009)

    22. Afro Ninja

    20091h 28mUnratedVideo
    4.3 (156)
    This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful Youtube video. Reggie's got a dead end job, a cruel boss, and no real propsects. Until, that is, he uncovers a pair of magic nunchuks that give him karate superpowers and set Reggie up for a battle with the evil Kung Fu Master.
    DirectorMark HicksStarsJames BlackD.T. CarneyMarla Gibbs
  • Cyber Ninja (1988)

    23. Cyber Ninja

    19881h 11m
    6.2 (418)
    In a futuristic version of medieval Japan, a band of swordsmen battles an evil warlord and his mechanical army of ninjas, and are aided by a mysterious heroic cyborg ninja, Shiranui.
    DirectorKeita AmemiyaStarsHanbei KawaiKunihiko IdaEri Morishita
  • The Octagon (1980)

    24. The Octagon

    19801h 43mR48Metascore
    5.1 (6.6K)
    A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.
    DirectorEric KarsonStarsChuck NorrisKaren CarlsonLee Van Cleef
  • Conan Lee and Hiroyuki Sanada in Ninja in the Dragon's Den (1982)

    25. Ninja in the Dragon's Den

    19821h 35m
    7.2 (2.2K)
    Two rival warriors, a Japanese and a Chinese, are forced to work together after their master has been killed by a mighty enemy.
    DirectorCorey YuenStarsHiroyuki SanadaConan LeeJeong-lee Hwang

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