Ninja Terminator (1985)

Directed by

Godfrey Ho

Genre

adventure film, ninja film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

18

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 67 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A ninja master and his allies search for pieces of a magical statue while being hunted by a ninja clan. The film was created by adding new scenes with ninjas and a few American actors onto footage from an older South Korean movie.

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What happens

Ninja Terminator is a 1985 film released in the United States by IFD, directed, written, and edited by Godfrey Ho. It stars Richard Harrison as Ninja Master Harry MacQueen, Jack Lam as Jaguar Wong, Hwang Jang-lee (accredited as Wong Cheng Li) as Tiger Chan. Godfrey Ho frequently created movies by filming scenes that he then added to pre-existing films, re-cutting it together and dubbing over the actors with his own dialogue in order to create a new story. Similarly, Ninja Terminator reuses more than 50 percent of its footage from the South Korean film The Uninvited Guest Of The Star Ferry (Korean: 스타페리 불청객; 1984). IFD owned the international sales rights for the film and decided to insert Caucasian actors into the film in the hopes it would then do better overseas. Ho did this and added ninjas to the storyline, as he usually did for his films. The new footage introduced a storyline about ninjas hunting for pieces of a magical statue. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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