Enter the Ninja

Enter the Ninja (1981)Cast and Crew

Movie"Hired assassins ...human killing machines!"

Cast

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Franco Nero
as Cole
S
Susan George
as Mary Ann
C
Christopher George
as Venarius
S
Sho Kosugi
as Hasegawa
A
Alex Courtney
as Frank
W
Will Hare
as Dollars
Z
Zachi Noy
as The Hook
C
Constantine Gregory
as Mr. Parker
D
Dale Ishimoto
as Komori
J
Joonee Gamboa
as Mr. Mesuda
L
Leo Martinez
as Pee Wee
K
Ken Metcalfe
as Elliot
S
Subas Herrero
as Alberto
A
Alan Amiel
as Maroon Ninja
D
Douglas Ivan
as Maroon Ninja
B
Bob Jones
as Maroon Ninja
J
Jack Turner
as Maroon Ninja

Crew

M
Menahem Golan
Director
M
Mike Stone
Stunts
M
Michael J. Duthie
Editor
D
Dick Desmond
Screenplay
J
Judd Bernard
Producer
D
David Gurfinkel
Director of Photography
Y
Yoram Globus
Producer
D
Dick Desmond
Screenstory
M
Mike Stone
Story
W
W. Michael Lewis
Original Music Composer
M
Mark Goldblatt
Editor
R
Rina Hofmanis
Makeup Artist
L
Laurin Rinder
Original Music Composer
M
Menahem Golan
Producer

The Ninja Trilogy

The so-called Ninja Trilogy comprises Menahem Golan’s Enter the Ninja from 1981, and Sam Firstenberg’s sequels in-name-only, Revenge of the Ninja (1983) and Ninja III: The Domination (1984), all unified by the appearance of actor and real-life practitioner of ninjutsu Sho Kosugi (playing a different character in each title), and all rightly celebrated as showcases for the most egregious, ’80s-inflected cash-in excesses of Golan and Globus’ Cannon Films. Though the groundwork was laid by 1980’s The Octagon, it was these three films that began a veritable explosion of ninja presence in mainstream action flicks.