American Ninja(Movie, 1985)

Name: American Ninja
Genre: Action
Released: 1985
Duration: T01:35:00
Rating: 3

| 1h 35min | Genre: Action

Rating: 3.0/5 (with 172 votes)

American Ninja is a 1985 American martial arts action film produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus's Cannon Films. Directed by Sam Firstenberg, who specialized in this genre in the 1980s, the film stars Michael Dudikoff in the title role and is the first installment in the American Ninja franchise, followed by American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987). It had a mixed reception, but it was a financial success, and since then, it has been considered a cult film. ()

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About American Ninja

Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.

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Trailer for American Ninja + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

American Warrior (1985) ORIGINAL Trailer(Trailer, 1:53)

American Warrior (1985) ORIGINAL Trailer (Trailer) | Trailer (Trailer) | Deutsch (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Philippines

Plays in: Philippines

Made by: Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 23 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 12/12/1985 (World premiere: 08/30/1985)

Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Richard Norton, Judie Aronson

Director: Sam Firstenberg

Producer: Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan

Director of Photography: Hanania Baer

Composer: Michael Linn

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Ninja americano"

"Guerreiro Americano"

"American Ninja 1"

Keywords: daughter, soldier, wilderness, ninja, sword, rebel, gaijin