Ninja vs. Ninja (1987)

You won't be disappointed!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

NINJA VS. NINJA is another Godfrey Ho-style cut and paste ninja movie of the 1980s which seems to have been put together from two or three different films. You get a handful of scenes with a black kid training in the woods to be a ninja and some brief ninja action but the bulk of the production is a Hong Kong crime film which has been dubbed and re-edited until it becomes nonsensical. Shaw Brothers star Norman Chu appears in these scenes and it's a pity to see him utilised in his way. NINJA VS. NINJA is a far cry too from the cheesy delights of Ho giddiness such as SCORPION THUNDERBOLT and NINJA TERMINATOR.

Seldom there exists such triumphs, such classics as movies like 'Ninja vs. Ninja'. Never before has a movie challenged the very edifice of modern thinking with such unflinching brutality.McCally plays Terrence, a young and ambitious pimp with a dream to become the greatest ninja ever, but all he has is his word and the money in his pocket. After being evicted in some intense cinema that perfectly shows the strife that Terrence feels as well as illustrating the the trauma experienced by evicted pimps every day. Kwong Wai is the old white master who has all but given up on life. However, it all changes when he meets Terrence. In a thought provoking scene that set the standard for all movies that followed, Terrence convinces Wai to train him to be the greatest ninja that ever lived. As Terrence continues in his training, Kwong Wai begins to learn what it means to be human again. In a tender and emotional scene that had tears streaming down my face, Kwong Wai meets Helena Bonham Carter in an uncredited role. Seeing how she reminds him of his wife (who died in a WWII concentration camp), he breaks down and cries. He calls on Terrence to help him form a relationship, only for Terrence to fall in love with her himself. This subplot comes to a sad ending when she is kidnapped by Yeung Wai Men (as themselves), a domestic hate group brought from the dead by a Ninja (Norman Chu) craving white supremacy.Finally, in a stunningly choreographed graduation fight scene, Terrence becomes a full-fledged Ninja. But it is too late. The Yeung Wai Men arrange for Helena Bonham Carter to be thrown off the tallest building in Nebraska. Terrence races there on foot, but he is too late. He arrives just in time for her to die in his arms. It is the most heartbreaking scene in the movie, where they proclaim their love for each other and talk about their future. In the last half hour of the movie, Terrence swears his revenge on every white supremacist. He captures and tortures one of the Yeung Wai Men for the location of the man known as 'Ninja'(still Norman Chu). In the surprise twist of the century, we find he has captured Kwong Wai and is holding him in Terrence's old apartment. He gets there in time to see Ninja murder Kwong Wai and then take his own life. In the end of the movie Terrence learns that the ones he loves will always be the ones who pay. This is an emotionally powerful scene that will draw out all the tears.Unfortunately, only about three people ever saw this. The movie was snubbed at the Oscars and was only released on video, but you must not pass it up. Ninja vs. Ninja gets my highest recommendation as the most important film ever made.

My best friend and i pride ourselves in watching the worst movies we can possible find. last night we were privy enough to come across ninja vs. ninja. we read the back of the case to see the plot summary and it said something about undercover ninja cops busting heroine addiction rings. we tried very very hard to put that plot together while watching the movie and we couldn't. it doesn't exist. the fight scenes are terribly choreographed and ninja will mysteriously grow arms and burrow underground at random points for no reason. the smoke effects look like there is some dude standing above them, pouring smoke on them. but the most memorable scene is what has been aptly named, "the beach party." for no damn reason, it goes to a scene where there are a lot of women playing cards, then one mysteriously dies, then ninjas appear and kill everyone else. all in all, i almost wet myself with laughter. if anyone wants to have a good laugh and lose some IQ at the same time, watch this movie.

Compiled from footage shot for at least two and possibly three motion pictures, Ninja Vs. Ninja is a logic free melange of martial arts and cops n robbers footage. The film starts with sped up footage of an African-American (?) ninja going through the motions as bland disco music plays in the background. He then turns into a white ninja who faces off with an evil black ninja (who's actually a white guy). Cut to some other white guys chatting about some nefarious plot. Then cut to your standard issue HK actors in a crime film about a missing tape. The white and black ninja drop in and out of the other film--their footage is badly matched, needless to say--until the film's abrupt and extremely disappointing conclusion. Ninja Vs. Ninja was released on video by Ocean Shores Video, who kindly supplied the synopsis for yet another completely unrelated film on the clamshell box. Only for hardcore connoisseurs of extremely inept cinema.