Revenge of the Ninja: The Best Ninja Movie Ever + Sam Firstenberg Interview

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Revenge of the Ninja is up there with the best American Martial Arts films ever made. Star Sho Kosugi had made a big impression in Cannon’s Enter the Ninja the year before, stealing the show from his (heavily doubled) co-star Franco Nero. Ninja’s became such a sensation that, in the sequel, Kosugi would be elevated to the lead, becoming the hero of one of The Cannon Group’s most profitable action movies of the eighties. It kicked off a whole series of Sho Kosugi Ninja Movies too.
In this special episode of Reel Action (written and narrated by Travis Hopson, edited by E.J. Tangonan), we revisited the Cannon Ninja classic while also sitting down for a very special interview with the movie’s director, Sam Firstenberg. If that name sound familiar, it’s because Firstenberg directed most of the great Cannon Films of the era, including Ninja III: The Domination, American Ninja, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, and so many more.
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  • @MrSonny665
    @MrSonny665 Жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite films of all time. I first watched it in 1989 it was first martial-arts film I ever saw, I was 4 years old at the time.

  • @pawlee77
    @pawlee77 Жыл бұрын

    This is the best ninja movie to ever come out of the 80s, possibly ever made!

  • @fixxxer525

    @fixxxer525

    Жыл бұрын

    Watched it twice in the theater. Collected a crap load of cans to recycle.

  • @JV-ll1cu

    @JV-ll1cu

    11 ай бұрын

    This is still the best ninja -movie that I have seen

  • @danielmankowski922
    @danielmankowski922 Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Kane Kosugi would star in another great sequel: Ninja 2 Shadow of a Tear with the always enjoyable Scott Adkins. Like father like son!

  • @JoBloOriginals

    @JoBloOriginals

    Жыл бұрын

    We love Scott Adkins!

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 Жыл бұрын

    I have memories of reenacting the climactic fight scene with my brother in the backyard dressed as ninjas.

  • @JoBloOriginals

    @JoBloOriginals

    Жыл бұрын

    Hope no one got hurt!

  • @wstine79

    @wstine79

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JoBloOriginals We had no injuries according to mother.

  • @JamusChristus
    @JamusChristus Жыл бұрын

    If you grew up when those movies came out, you had an awesome childhood.

  • @captainthruster9484

    @captainthruster9484

    Жыл бұрын

    You are correct

  • @ferox965

    @ferox965

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep. I rented the three Cannon ninja movies all the time when I was little. Looking back, my parents were pretty hip haha.

  • @JamusChristus

    @JamusChristus

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ferox965 I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I was having some problems in school. My old man, a formally educated teacher and overall awesome dude, took me out of school and we vegged out on the Ninja trilogy and The Warriors on VHS. I can't speak for any school improvements but what I will say that my childhood was some cool shit. We lived in South Shore, right by the lake. There was a major commercial artery 2 blocks away. Girls on the block were my age. I had a new bicycle and my life hadn't yet started.

  • @AbstractM0use

    @AbstractM0use

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes. When I was about 7 or 8, I got up to sneak in some late night TV on a weekend and caught this movie on HBO. I was a ninja fanatic from that point on throughout the 80's. Luckily, our local video store had an awesome martial arts section so they had almost every ninja movie available at the time.

  • @ferox965
    @ferox965 Жыл бұрын

    My fave ninja movie. So unhinged and badass. Rented this all the time when I was a kid in the 80s.

  • @RazorEdge2006
    @RazorEdge2006 Жыл бұрын

    Between Bruce Lee's last movie Game of Death (1978) and Jackie Chan's Hollywood breakthrough Rumble in the Bronx (1995), Sho Kosugi was the biggest Asian movie star in Hollywood during that interim period. It's a shame Kosugi has since been forgotten.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Жыл бұрын

    I remember watching this movie all the time growing up in the 1980s and I remember that seeing where it shows that his mom was a badass. She just needs to be better at hiding.

  • @alanguages
    @alanguages Жыл бұрын

    Imagine if Tadashi Yamashita would have taken the role in Enter the Ninja, then there would not have been the Ninja craze of the 80's. Sho Kosugi's action packed performance is what set it all in motion.

  • @ferox965

    @ferox965

    Жыл бұрын

    Facts.

  • @shirophoenix01
    @shirophoenix01 Жыл бұрын

    Man, I love the theme of these movies. It pops up in my head every now and then when Im cleaning around the house and it makes something meanial epic lol My favorite is the third installment but I love all three of them!

  • @lobsterwhisperer7932
    @lobsterwhisperer7932 Жыл бұрын

    Sho Kosuji catching the falling cup in mid air, that says it all, real ninja.

  • @michaelsitharcher2486
    @michaelsitharcher2486 Жыл бұрын

    i was a kid in the 80s ninja movies was one of my favorite movies

  • @amphetamean66X
    @amphetamean66X9 ай бұрын

    Sho Kasugi is an absolute legend. I love him so much. I wish he had been in more films. He's easily my favorite martial arts star. More than Bruce, more Chang, more than Van Damme more than any of them.

  • @TheNameisPlissken1981
    @TheNameisPlissken1981 Жыл бұрын

    You are absolutely correct. Revenge of the Ninja was one of my favorites growing up in mid 1980s. One of Cannon's best. How could you forget Avenging Force, though?

  • @JoBloOriginals

    @JoBloOriginals

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh we didn’t - it’s coming

  • @shaneburst5661
    @shaneburst5661 Жыл бұрын

    My cousin and I rented it from the local Coast to Coast hardware store that doubled as a video rental and also sold Star Wars action figures in 1985!!! Life was great like that in 85.......

  • @igable82
    @igable82 Жыл бұрын

    Oh wow...I remember watching this as a young kid in the 80s. Man great movie! Loved it!

  • @pauldavidwilsonjackson.sup8726
    @pauldavidwilsonjackson.sup8726 Жыл бұрын

    I saw this movie for the first time when I was 20, which was when I fell in love with Japanese martial arts. It was when I saw this movie and became a ninja the next day. I think this movie is the best ninja movie in history because 10 years later I was born to my sho kosugi is the god of martial arts the ninja of the 80s one day i will bring back the ninja mania and make ninjas cool again.

  • @dragdragon23
    @dragdragon238 ай бұрын

    amazing film, great action, good story, good acting and I love the sound track of the final fight.

  • @magicpumpkin3
    @magicpumpkin3 Жыл бұрын

    Saw this gem when it came out and loved it.

  • @kibayasha7301
    @kibayasha7301 Жыл бұрын

    I loved ninjas so when this movies was in theaters I talked my parents into taking me. I was 7 and that opening sequence had me wanting to go home lol. Later when I got it on vhs at age 12 it became my all-time favorite ninja movie to this day. Lol

  • @SD78
    @SD784 ай бұрын

    I remember watching this documentary when I was 8. Good times!

  • @FreedomCompatriots
    @FreedomCompatriots Жыл бұрын

    I would like a video of 'What the F@ck happened to Sho Kosugi?" He disappeared for a very long time. Where did he go? Did he just go get a day job because in 2009 he shows up in Ninja Assassin as the head bag guy. If Hasbro had any sense, they would of hired him to be the Hard Master in the G.I.Joe Rise of Cobra monstrosity that came out the same year.

  • @fraaank8215

    @fraaank8215

    Жыл бұрын

    i filmed him 2018: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZqR8ttKeldC5h6w.html

  • @sceanlyonz4571
    @sceanlyonz4571 Жыл бұрын

    I have a large certified picture sign by both Sho Kosugi and Arthur Roberts!!!!!!

  • @edwardfortier2335
    @edwardfortier23354 ай бұрын

    When you think of Ninjas, you think of Sho!!!

  • @Pdotta1
    @Pdotta1 Жыл бұрын

    This was great thanks!

  • @conm87
    @conm87 Жыл бұрын

    Hands down my favourite western Ninja film!

  • @JV-ll1cu

    @JV-ll1cu

    11 ай бұрын

    What is a better ninja -movie than this then?

  • @MoeFokah
    @MoeFokah Жыл бұрын

    Revenge of the Ninja was dope. That metal balls n spikes death scene was so dope.

  • @davidagiel8130
    @davidagiel8130 Жыл бұрын

    By far the best Ninja movie, still to this day. American Ninja second.

  • @michaelg1352
    @michaelg1352 Жыл бұрын

    Crazy, but this movie and Sho Kosugi are what got me to start training in martial arts when I was a kid. I eventually went on to teach martial arts myself and had my own school. Finally got a pretty bad back injury and had to stop. But, I still bust out my Sho movies from time to time.

  • @VegasLoungeAct
    @VegasLoungeAct Жыл бұрын

    This was my favorite movie as a kid

  • @ZarkAttack
    @ZarkAttack Жыл бұрын

    ONLY A NINJA CAN STOP A NINJA

  • @acegrafik
    @acegrafik Жыл бұрын

    Love the movie and LOVE the soundtrack!They don'e make them like that anymore!

  • @KOBUDERA1606
    @KOBUDERA1606 Жыл бұрын

    The movie that marked my childhood

  • @300kapslar
    @300kapslar Жыл бұрын

    You should have mention the awsome score this movie has. It makes the movie more superb than it already is.

  • @robertquant1122

    @robertquant1122

    8 ай бұрын

    I saw the soundtrack on aomeba records is really expensive

  • @acegrafik
    @acegrafik Жыл бұрын

    Would you consider made some video like this for "Lone Wolf McQuade"?Those precious few movies were the epitome of the 80's.

  • @deepcloudsmusic
    @deepcloudsmusic Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for adding the Sam Firstenberg interview! This is my favorite movie of all time. Would be absolutely amazing to find some screen used props. The Brayden silver mask would be the holy grail :)

  • @premierhoner614
    @premierhoner614 Жыл бұрын

    The BEST Ninja movie by far... Thats how I feel about it..........

  • @kerrydavis7034
    @kerrydavis7034 Жыл бұрын

    I've been a shoka Suki fan for years. I was surprised to see him in ninja assassin.

  • @JV-ll1cu

    @JV-ll1cu

    11 ай бұрын

    shoka Suki 😅

  • @Just4Fun-Zocker
    @Just4Fun-Zocker Жыл бұрын

    Loved the movies as a kid even though the version we got was heavily cut.

  • @patfer1189
    @patfer1189 Жыл бұрын

    Let's see if anyone remembers what movie this may be, because I watched it decades ago and can't remember. It was a ninja movie. Can't remember what production company was behind it or even who was the lead. But the story pretty much involved a hijacked skyscraper with hostages. Our hero, a ninja, spends most of the movie climbing the side of the skyscraper at dusk, to reach the top and infiltrate it. While he is climbing we constantly flash back to his story and how he became a ninja, and essentially how he ended doing what he is doing now. Eventually reaches the top, kills the bad guys, and rescues everybody. Watched it as a kid, I believe either as a rental or one of those movies found on TV a Saturday afternoon, and never ran into it again. And clearly it wasn't a major production even for this sub-genre of movies, so it isn't as widely remembered as the Cannon films.

  • @robertferguson5562

    @robertferguson5562

    Жыл бұрын

    The Last Ninja, 1983 tv movie

  • @mikegrady5669
    @mikegrady5669 Жыл бұрын

    Greatest Ninja movie ever!!! Nothing has come close

  • @Kthomasritchie
    @Kthomasritchie Жыл бұрын

    The best scene is when Kosugi beats up the Village People.

  • @billhobbs7077

    @billhobbs7077

    8 ай бұрын

    the dude dressed up as a cowboy reminded me of Rip Taylor almost expected him to throw a bunch of confetti around during the battle in the park

  • @raymondburlage6927
    @raymondburlage6927 Жыл бұрын

    Love that movie. Great job Joblo,

  • @kikinko
    @kikinko Жыл бұрын

    Hi. Where can I find the uncut version of this movie?

  • @demonocusmetalocus3558
    @demonocusmetalocus3558 Жыл бұрын

    Revenge of the ninja is the greatest ninja movie of all time.

  • @gf2390
    @gf2390 Жыл бұрын

    Best martial art actor from the 80s. Ninja 3 was my favourite though.

  • @realamericannegro977
    @realamericannegro977 Жыл бұрын

    The Ninja trilogy has some sick movie poster art. I wonder who drew them

  • @speedygonzales378
    @speedygonzales378 Жыл бұрын

    Would love to see sho kusugi in season 6 of cobra kai.

  • @chwenhoou
    @chwenhoou Жыл бұрын

    The Cannon Ninja trilogy needs a box set release. I know there is one, but it is hard to come by. Have Arrow Video work on that. And have Sho Kosugi be on the cover front and center.

  • @drjhale9801

    @drjhale9801

    9 ай бұрын

    Try shout they have rights …to sell the DVDs

  • @hershysquirts187
    @hershysquirts187 Жыл бұрын

    This is one the best ninja movies

  • @tezkatepuka
    @tezkatepuka Жыл бұрын

    First ninja movie i ever saw.

  • @JV-ll1cu

    @JV-ll1cu

    11 ай бұрын

    And still the best

  • @billhobbs7077
    @billhobbs70778 ай бұрын

    just a thought here, but wasnt Sho going to start an art gallery as a plot device in the somewhat darker Pray for Death ?

  • @demonocusmetalocus3558
    @demonocusmetalocus3558 Жыл бұрын

    Shane kosugi was the kid who took the throwing star to the head at the beginning of the movie.

  • @realamericannegro977
    @realamericannegro977 Жыл бұрын

    Is 2 better than 3. 3 is one of the sickest movies ive seen im general. 1 was fun. I have to finish the 2nd one but its starts of the slowest but not in a bad way

  • @inatrance92SK
    @inatrance92SK Жыл бұрын

    Sho Kosugi = best modern day film ninja. Sonny Chiba = best medieval (Tokugawa Period) film/TV ninja.

  • @deafcage
    @deafcage Жыл бұрын

    "I'm a ninja! I'm a Hoodie Ninja!" ...

  • @djbabyfaceatl
    @djbabyfaceatl Жыл бұрын

    Was this the one where the guy tried to catch the car and was dragged by it ?

  • @tehcarey
    @tehcarey Жыл бұрын

    All 3 ninja movies were amazing

  • @Ugly_German_Truths
    @Ugly_German_Truths Жыл бұрын

    Only a good guy in a pajama can stop 99 bad guys in pajamas!

  • @danielhuckle4444
    @danielhuckle4444 Жыл бұрын

    U forgot avenging force from Sam firstenberg

  • @JoBloOriginals

    @JoBloOriginals

    Жыл бұрын

    No no - it’s coming. avenging Force gets its own video

  • @beansgray4095
    @beansgray4095 Жыл бұрын

    hi jo

  • @hangonsnoop
    @hangonsnoop Жыл бұрын

    Is that The VIllage People at 09:30 ?

  • @ronineditor9920
    @ronineditor992010 ай бұрын

    3:23 - He gets killed in almost every single one of their films, haha... even in the American Ninja film, if I remember right... but definitely in this and Ninja III.

  • @kerrywhitehouse74
    @kerrywhitehouse74 Жыл бұрын

    Dude why does no one ever mention Sakura Killers

  • @nakaiswilling0369
    @nakaiswilling0369 Жыл бұрын

    Get it right only a ninja can kill a ninja and yes they did make some kick a movies

  • @raptorskilltor4554
    @raptorskilltor4554 Жыл бұрын

    3 ninjas tells me otherwise

  • @rickfakhre2400
    @rickfakhre2400 Жыл бұрын

    Instant ninja, just add water.

  • @shoua7
    @shoua7 Жыл бұрын

    Sho Kosugi is THE only real ninja, IMO.

  • @klaatubaradanikuto7195
    @klaatubaradanikuto7195 Жыл бұрын

    From a Japanese point of view, it's a movie that has a lot of misunderstandings about ninjas. There are no ninjas like this. This exaggerates ninja too much. Why did Sho Kosugi make such a movie when he should have known what a ninja is? It's arranged for America.

  • @makegeorgeorwellfictionaga9268
    @makegeorgeorwellfictionaga9268 Жыл бұрын

    U possess gweat ninja skwill

  • @JoBloOriginals

    @JoBloOriginals

    Жыл бұрын

    We try

  • @kevthepoet
    @kevthepoet Жыл бұрын

    Dead or Alive got a movie? 😂🤣😭

  • @cchavezjr7
    @cchavezjr7 Жыл бұрын

    Hot tub scene...

  • @frankcortes6852
    @frankcortes6852 Жыл бұрын

    I prefer Pray For Death by FAAAAR!!! But it’s still a good movie. 👍

  • @Kthomasritchie
    @Kthomasritchie Жыл бұрын

    Pray for Death is better. Even though it's essentially bigger budget remake of Revenge of the Ninja.

  • @billyheaning
    @billyheaning Жыл бұрын

    A little kid gets a ninja star to the forehead in the first five minutes. Of course it's the best ninja movie ever made. I'm not advocating violence against kids. But crotch goblins are still annoying.

  • @Geronimo_Jehoshaphat
    @Geronimo_Jehoshaphat Жыл бұрын

    "The Hunted" is the ONLY good Ninja movie.

  • @ferox965

    @ferox965

    Жыл бұрын

    You spelled Revenge of the Ninja wrong.

  • @Geronimo_Jehoshaphat

    @Geronimo_Jehoshaphat

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ferox965 Sho nuf did. _"He no Ninja! He no kanpai!"_

  • @kl7985
    @kl7985 Жыл бұрын

    I'm sorry but.... MK is objectively better than DoA. How dare you sir?!?!??

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