The Cannon Film Guide by Austin Trunick

Author:Austin Trunick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

The cover of the Spanish press kit featured Kosugi in the iconic black shozoku.

The demon ninja mounts his assault on Chifano’s headquarters, zip-lining into a high floor of the building and picking off his bodyguards with a wide variety of tools from the ninja arsenal. (As with Enter the Ninja, Kosugi served as something of an uncredited ninja consultant and supplied many of his personally-designed weapons for the film.) Meanwhile, Cho—now dressed in his own black shozoku—takes an alternate route into the building while eliminating any of the gangsters who dare come between him and his demon ninja target. Along the way Hatcher has the misfortune of running into the demon ninja first and meets his untimely demise, which only further fuels Cho’s lust for revenge.

Elsewhere, Kane is able to free himself from his bindings and steal the guard’s nunchaku, which he then uses to incapacitate him, like a badass, baby Bruce Lee. Kane frees Kathy—who was bound inside a hot tub, which was retro-fitted as a drowning/torture device—and they head off to Chifano’s headquarters to catch up with Cho.

The two adversaries eventually meet on the roof of the skyscraper, where the movie’s climactic battle between good (ninja) and evil (ninja) takes place. This movie’s extended, action-packed finale makes up the last 20 minutes of the film, ten of which are spent on the roof as Cho and Braden duke it out to the death. Rooftop shooting took ten full days, much of that time spent setting up pyrotechnics and safety rigging. It was all worth it: Revenge of the Ninja’s final showdown comprises arguably the best ninja action in cinematic history. The two ninjas square off with swords, throwing daggers, chains, smoke grenades, and kama. The demon ninja breaks out more than a few nasty tricks from his black magic playbook, including teleportation and shooting flames out of his hands, to conjuring a decoy dummy that’s dressed exactly like him. Just when it appears Cho can no longer endure the demon ninja’s assault, he manages to sneak in a killing blow. Braden’s chest sprays a glorious fountain of blood, and he drops dead. (The high-pressure blood spray, along with the shot where Cho’s elder son takes a shuriken to the face, were occasionally deemed too graphic and trimmed from several releases of the film.) In the end Kathy and Kane finally make their way to the roof, where father and son are reunited happily ever after.

I really, really, really can’t overstate how gratuitously awesome the movie’s action-packed third act is. The demon ninja was usually played by stunt man Steven Lambert throughout the movie, including in these final sequences, as the silver mask worn by the character made it easy to swap out actors. Lambert narrowly avoided a fatal accident during the zip-lining scene when his assistant, Don Shanks—the same man who played the Native American thug earlier in the movie—stopped him from riding the line before it had been weight-tested. They sent out several sandbags on the cable,

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