The Horror Returns - The Action Returns - Ep. #62: Revenge Of The Ninja (1983)

Episode Date: April 14, 2023

This episode Brian and Nez head to SoCal to help a Japanese Gallery owner take on the mob and mysterious silver faced assassin in the 1983 martial arts classic REVENGE OF THE NINJA.    After ninjas killed his family, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When his friend betrays him, Cho must prepare for the ultimate battle.   Join The Action Returns Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/841619946357776   Follow The Action Returns on IG and Twitter: Instagram: @theactionreturns Twitter: @action_returns    Check out everything Horror Returns at: https://thehorrorreturns.com Join The Horror Returns Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1056143707851246 THR Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thehorrorreturns   Join the THR Presents: Stream Fiends Facebook Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/3860579827402429 Follow THR Stream Fiends on IG: @thrstreamfiends

Cassie, where is Kate? Chom, it's all my fault. I brought him to Brames. He hypnotized me. He's a ninja, so. Do you understand him? Yes, I'm afraid I do. But Chon, what about Raymond?

I'll take care of him. Take her and hold her with the boy. What's Ravie? It's Braden. He's got king. Braden? Yes. He's a ninja. He betrayed me. Impossible. He's an American. How can he be a ninja?

He lived for 20 years in Japan. He trained Kogariu style, ninjitsu. We've got to stop. I'll call the Ten a dime. This is no job for the police. It's something I'll have to do. I'll have to do. Only a ninja can stop a ninja.

Baby, I need some action tonight. Back everybody to another episode of the action returns. It's our second episode of the year. That means it's a streak. We've got two episodes coming out. But of course,

I'm your host Brian with me as always. My brother, Nez. What's up, man? Yo, man. Yeah, everyone. we're on a roll hopefully by next week we'll get the third one down but yeah man let everyone know why we're here this is the one I couldn't wait for we are here for the second entry in the Canon Ninja trilogy 1983's Revenge of the Ninja of the Ninja starring martial arts master Shokosugi and his son Kane Kusugi six-year-old world karate champion

Revenge of the Ninja. The great martial arts explosion of ladies comes to America with full force. Revenge of the Ninja, rated R. Now playing UA Cinema Center, Hollywood Pacific and Selected Theaters. Google, keep it short like I like it. A Japanese gallery owner denies his violent ninja heritage until American drug traffickers kidnap his young son.

Yeah, I guess that's what happened. Let's see, IMDB. After ninjas killed his family, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a little, he opens a doll shop unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When his friends betray him, Cho must prepare for the ultimate battle. this stars show Kasagi

Kasugi Kasugi Let's keep fucking his name up Kees Vitali Virgil Fry Arthur Roberts Mario Gallo

Grace Oshita Ashley Ferrer Kane Kusugi I didn't I did not know this was his actual son

until I was like looking at stuff John Lamata and the legendary professor Torah Tanaka, rest in peace. Yep. Directed by Sam Furstingberg.

Nez, what did you think of Revenge of the Ninja? All right, everyone. This was 1983's best out of the canon. Like I said on the last one, this is the first film that I saw. And this Ninja trilogy.

And oh my God, I love this film. It's just, I was like 12 years old sitting there watching this in the theater. I mean, I was all about ninjas. I don't want to go through that whole story again. But when this one came out, I remember seeing the poster. For those of you that don't know if you're new of the show, I lived right around the corner from a movie theater, the parkway theater in Oakland, California. And I was going to school and I walked over you. I walk past the theater every day, look at the posters.

This is back in the days when they had the lobby cards under the posters and inside in the lobby. They had them all on the walls and everything. So just seeing a cool ninja and I was just loved the whole ninja thing. I still don't really know too much about it. I've read a few things. But I was like, oh, man, this looks awesome because the poster just looks amazing. 400 years of training and the art of sudden death

unleashed on 20th century America Got this ninja Well basically it's Cho or Shokosugi's character But he's got the The flamethrower Whatever that was that Braiden had

Okay It fit for the poster So I was like Oh my God, this looks awesome And then I remember Seeing a little trailer For it on like a TV spot and I was just like oh fuck man this looks awesome so that weekend um uh it was either my brother or mike

went with me i can't remember but i remember sitting there with somebody and just like oh my god this movie was awesome it was like i can't remember what the second movie was with it but uh as soon as we watched this we watched the second movie and i said i want to watch that movie again so we hung out and watched it a second time but man i love love this one. It's just, just 80s goodness, 80s cheese, and it's canon. I mean, it's

I think Canon only did three ninja films of what, if I can remember right, but oh man, this is, this was awesome. When you, when you think of ninjas, you automatically think it show Kosugi, because he's like, to me, he's, he's the ninjas.

If I ever, I know he's still with us. I don't think he does the cons or anything, but I I would love to meet him just to say, man, I grew up watching everything and idolizing everything. I mean, I can go online and buy a poster. That's what I want to do. I want this revenge of the ninja poster, but I want, he had some other ones where it was just ninja, all poses and all that. I would love one of those to hang in here.

But yeah, this movie is awesome. And it realized that was his son, Kane Kasugi, played a Kane, Osaka, however, they say the last name. He was cool, man. That little kid was legit. I mean, he was kicking ass in this. And I've seen him in other films as much as he's older, and he's fucking still kicking ass too. I got to give a shout out to a fellow indigenous actor, Don Shanks.

He played Chief in this. We'll get to there, man. I was like, whoa, what the hell's happening? It was like the village people, ninjas in one film. Yeah, I think they credited him as Dan. Yeah. I was like, what? For those of you that do know who Don Shanks is,

he's a stunt man. He also played Michael Myers and, um, was it the revenge of Michael Myers? The part five. Yeah, it was the fifth one. He played Michael Myers. I had a chance to meet him,

but it was still when Khan started up and I was still if he to go in groups or where things were going on. Now I'm just right in there. But I hopefully I get to meet him. at some point. I would definitely want to get him to sign. My Revenge of the Ninja Blu-ray, but this movie's awesome, man. I loved it. So, I mean, again, I saw it. That weekend, it came out,

and I just been just loving this film. Since 83. When was the first time you've seen this one? I was a, we talked about it on here, us being young kids, trying to be ninjas. This was a video store rental for me the first time I seen it. and I've seen it a few times since then and yeah I agree with everything you said

I mean they they don't pull no punches in this one I mean little little little kids is getting ninja stars to the heads white girls doing karate or whatever with no no pants on

like you said the fucking village people are in here fighting it's fucking heroin being shipped in dolls there's just all kinds of it's it's pure canon goodness it's what you expect when you when you see that canon logo and yeah i i i probably just go ahead and say it but i don't know if my mind will change on the next one but this is definitely the best out of the trilogy i haven't seen ninja three in a long long time everyone so it'll like be watching it for the first time again i remember a lot of it

mainly the beginning, but I don't, I just remember a special K from breaking. She has to have a sex scene in that with a, with a super hairy guy. I don't even remember. It's like pouring like V8 shoes on her or something. All I remember was Shokosugi in the beginning when he buried himself in the dirt. I remember that part. And he became a D-Mrap.

We'll get to that one. We'll get through there. But this film, uh, I was watching some guy. He did a review for it on YouTube. I can't remember. Red Eye reviews. He's got a good channel.

Yeah, I watched his review on this. And I learned a lot. I also went into the, did you know part on YouTube, or not YouTube on the trivia stuff on IMDV. Did not realize that this was supposedly supposed to be in L.A., but it was all filmed in Salt Lake City

because from what I understand that the permits and everything to film in L.A. was just too much and had all kinds of just would have went way over budget than what they were putting into this. So like someone found that people from Salt Lake City, their filming commission reached out to them and said,

hey, man, you guys can come film here. Excuse me. And we're all, we're not going to charge this. We're not going to charge that. We're not going to charge union stuff or anything. And, uh, can and I'm like, you know what? Let's go. So they packed it up and they all moved to Salt Lake City to give us this film.

You don't really realize it's Salt Lake City until the end when they're up on top of the building and you see these snow capped mountains and how flat it is. And like, that is not LA. So I didn't really notice all that when I first saw this. I was just watching Ninja goodness, but it was cool. And also, uh, cane or a cane, um, Shokosugi's other little son was in this. He played, uh, the kid from the beginning of the film. And, uh, so that got it.

Oh, yeah, man. See him in Canon? They pull no punches on this one. They would for it with the violence in this one. This one is, I mean, that's why when I saw this one first and then I went back. and saw Enter the Ninja expecting Revenge of the Ninja action to be in that first one

and we only get like two or three minutes of ninja at the end and then the beginning of the film at least this fight at the end the final fight was 10 minutes long so I was there for every every minute of it so but yeah this movie was awesome

man going on IMDB and just looking at all the trivia stuff you do figure out a lot that was going on supposedly there's an unrated version of this film because I guess when the ratings board got a hold of it they took a lot of it out I don't know I have the

Kenil Lorber I think that's what you know yeah I have that version I don't know it just says rated R so I assume this is everything it says it's got it doesn't have much on this just a trailer I think some photo gallery

But You know if it's going to be to get you though Since you already own that one Then put out the unrated version On special edition Of course And I'll buy it 4K And it'll be like $50

And I'll still Drop that 50 And just for it So you guys are listening They should put it out a nice Trilogy box set I'm surprised The Screen Factory hasn't done it

Because the Keanu Lover did the first two and Scream Factory did the third one. So I don't know. We'll see how that goes. We just put it out there in the universe. So I'm sure it's going to happen now. Yeah, but this one, I mean, I loved how it started. I mean, it goes back to the old school in Japan with Cho and his family. He's out there, out there doing their thing.

we were introduced to Braden played by Arthur Roberts and he's he's just trying to do some business with Cho or their friends I guess they've known each other

for I seem like 20 years is what they were saying and just trying to get him to come to America to help him do some business I'll open up a gallery art gallery type of stuff

with all the Japanese cultured stuff to put into there to show us, us Americans. But he's like, nah, I want to stay here. This is where my family's from.

This is where everything is for us. And then all of a sudden, we see his mother, his wife, his son, and his wife's a new little, new little baby. And I think like an aunt and uncle,

I don't know who they were. And this is when we get the Gibroni ninjas again. Oh, yeah. I loved how all the action in this was during the day. Just like it like an end of the ninja, all the fighting and everything took place during the daytime. Well, I think we need to do Ninja Assassin at some point. Just to watch that again,

some more Shokosugi and blood and guts and everything in that one. But if you guys haven't seen Ninja Assassin, do yourself a favor. What's that one? so chow and brayden are talking and then all these ninjas show up i don't understand i guess you must be jabroney ninja if you got the red on that's beginner level or maybe it's like like star track maybe they're just a red shirts because they come in come into play and just immediately start killing the family i here's a question was brayden behind

all this or was this just a rival ninja clan he when they after the family gets slaughtered and him and show um come back he conspicuously disappears for most of the most of the fight here because they kind of they kind of show his eyes his evil eyes as he's looking around but so once they all start coming in to play i mean show and braiding are off i don't know how far they were but when the ninjas come in to start killing all the family it's like they just started slicing and dicing uh the first couple i assume part members of the family uncle and whoever killed them really quick slice them up and then uh the little son his uh his older son was trying to run and he took a star to the forehead.

You just see him fall. We don't see the actual what happened in. We just see him go down. And then the wife, she's running, and she goes and hides the little baby that she's hiding, puts the baby in the bushes, which is little cane. And then she comes up and then more ninjas come out.

And then one of them hits her with an arrow. So she goes down. um i don't think right into that arrow i don't think grandma was there because grandma showed up later she shows up after chow destroys everybody and then she just shows up too kind of i don't know if it i don't know this kind of made it seem like where was she when all this was going i don't know if they do that in there to kind of throw you off because everybody seem to be gone when Joe was

just destroying people. Yeah, because when after they murdered everyone, he shows up with Brayton and they're looking around like, what the hell's happening? They don't know what's going on. Then all of a sudden, all these ninjas come out. And then he's got no weapons. He's just

hand and foot and just starts kicking ass, but then he kills one of them and takes a sword away. And then he just starts slicing and dicing them all. I liked how that one came out from the of the roof. And all he did was just get that sword and go up and stab him. So he was down.

Then he sliced up those other guys. Like he was still hanging there just the whole time. I think he was kind of twitching there at the end too. Yeah. He was still swinging when they showed up, even when the grandma showed up. But more ninjas come out of the bushes and Braden comes out and he's got his little 45 and he just starts shooting ninjas. So that's why I call these gibroni nests.

just because like you're standing out in the open as a guy the white guy with a gun and they just he just starts blasting all of them so but he gets some hand-to-hand into it with one of them he steals uh takes a sword from him and he slices that one up but while chow was just kicking ass uh i love i love this part because uh three ninjas come out of nowhere and they just shoot three arrows at him and he like catches two of them in his hands and then the third one in his mouth and and he's holding two and then Zelen Ninja comes out from out of the water and he just jams those arrows in his shoulder blades so he's done and then he goes into the bushes and into the bamboo

and here come a few more and he starts slicing and dicing them up I love all the sword action I mean it's cool the choreography that they did is badass it's not like Crouch and Tiger badass but for the 80s it's still

badass but he just starts slicing all those guys up. And then he kind of runs out into the, into the open. And here come a couple more. And he starts fighting them. And like, he just runs through all all things. It was like three or four of them.

Shouldn't know there's six of them. Six of watching this everyone. Six of them come at him. And he just runs through all of them. And it's just bad. The thing that was funny, because I was reading the credits at the end, these ninjas is like there were some Mexican guys.

some white guys. I don't think anyone was Japanese. So, all right, cool. You get what you can. I don't know where they filmed the beginning. I don't know if it was in Japan or if it was somewhere in the woods and they just built his house for it. But I loved him. He was just kicking ass.

He's in, I can't, I don't know what their wear, their clothes, their regalia or whatever that they wear. Because he was keeping a real. Um, it's not a ghee. It's, uh, I can't, I was reading something. I can't remember what they call their clothes. Someone's probably screaming it. But after he pretty much wipes out all of them, he kills all of them.

And, uh, Braden's still trying like, man, you need to come to America. Just come on. It'll be safer. But show was like, no, man, I can't leave. He goes like, my, my father and my grandfather's before him. My family, all their blood was, uh, here in Japan. And now my family's blood is here. I need to stay here.

But he's like, these guys are going to keep coming after you if you don't leave. And then, uh, chose a mom kind of shows up. Like, hey, come here. So she pulls them off to the side. And look, I don't, I don't trust this dude. Don't, don't listen to him. And he's like, he's my friend. No, it's all right.

And she's like, all right. But he show her, uh, Braden really kind of gets to him. And he was like, look, man, because you, you should come with me. We'll go over there. We'll be all good. You'll be safe. So he was like, all right. So flash forward, six years.

It just says United States. And we see the little king coming out of a school. Him and his grandma was picking him up. And he fit right in, man. He was already. This is why they say it was L.A. He was a Dodger fan right out the gate. I hated the way he wore his hat.

I just just sitting on the top of the back Basically at the back of his head That was way too small for his head But this part was awesome Because he He's just walking home And then here comes these little street tuffs

I'll give it to all those little kids I mean they probably went through Just all right This is what you guys are going to do And action Because it was an awesome fight scene It was about five of them Yeah

Five kids taking on Kane And he just Ran through no Yeah there's five of them One guy on a bike And he just They just kind of get in front of him They start talking shit

And then he's like Get out of my way And then they just Nah And they're out here Beat his ass Kick his ass And one guy tries to run at him

With a bike And he does a roundhouse And then he just starts throwing kicks and punches. Okay, he's six years old because they're saying this is six years later. And I don't know when he started training, but man,

he was kicking ass. He was bringing it to all those little kids, throwing dirt in their faces, a lot of kicks. Again, if you guys haven't seen this film, I mean, go to YouTube and watch all the fight scenes

that are on there. But little cane, man, he was kicking ass. And I'll give it to all these little actors, man, these kids. Obviously, they had some, some kind of training to like, look, because it wasn't like little people or short,

like short men or short women dressed up as kids. Now, he was fighting these kids. So he kind of pretty much beat them all up. But then his dad shows up and tells him, I didn't bring you America to fight. But then there's, you train him for then. Well, it's for self-defense only. If you remember, uh, yeah, he was defending himself. Grandma wasn't helping him.

No. We don't realize how badass grandma is until later. But she's like, come on. When grandma stepped in, she goes, look, this is pretty much his birthright. This is his training. He's got to. But I see where the dad comes into play. Like, look, man, you know you can beat them all up. We don't want that.

So my grandma's just like, come on, come on, just let him beat the shit out of these kids. but that ain't happening. So we go to their little gallery, they're bringing it in, and they're bringing in all these little, these little statues, these like dolls, these Japanese dolls,

the little geisha ones, there's a ninja one and some other ones, some samurai ones. They're just trying to show, bring their culture to America. Braden's in there helping them. They got, who was the lady's name?

Kathy? Kathy. Is this where she comes in with no pants on? No, not yet. But, yeah, they're just trying to get their gallery open and everything.

And then, um, I assume it was one of their partners or whatever. Some guy comes in with, uh, little Asian woman. And he's explaining because, yeah,

these are, these are all expensive dolls. It takes two months to make each one. And, uh, we got more shipment coming in, uh, for America.

when we're having our grand opening pretty soon. So one girl's like looking around. She walks over to the ninja and he explains this is a ninja. It's been in our family for over a thousand years. And he's trying to, they're like, well, aren't these guys like bad guys, assassins? He's like, no, these guys are soldiers. But the lore and everything is different than what you guys are used to

or what you know of the ninja. And she's running her finger along. I'm like, what the fuck you doing, lady? She's running her finger along the sword of the little ninja doll and cuts her finger. So. Exactly what she gets. So I think after this is when we're introduced to Kathy. And she's, uh, let me go.

We were introduced to what's his name? The bad guys of this, uh, Caffano. I think that was his name. and no no no no not yet um little cane is in the gallery and he's like he gets one of the dolls and he pulls in it falls off the little stand that it's on and the head falls off and all this powder shoots out i thought it was coke when i was a kid but find out that it's heroin so kathy's kind of like no no no can you don't touch these things these are real expensive so he goes i won't tell your dad so go run off and play

But then she She tells Braids Like look One of the dolls Broke open And it all spilled out But Kane was the one that did it And but I don't think he knows what it is

So we should be all right Hope he doesn't know what it is He's like all right Well we got more coming in So let's let's get this deal going with This is when we're introduced to Khafano In his gang And now he's just the

The the 80s mafia Italian dude. And he's in business with Braden. Basically, they said, like, Braden goes, all right. He goes, I got the heroin for a cheaper price from Japan. It's coming here. And we're going to sell it to you.

And then we'll do business. But Kavana was like, well, I already give you like $100,000 for this up front. So, and he goes, like, well, the Japanese want the rest of their money. And he's like, hell no, man. He goes, look, I already got the stuff. They already got my $100,000. I ain't giving them anymore. And Braden's like, what?

So you're going to double cross me and do me dirty like that? And he goes, you don't want to mess with the Japanese. And they're like, that fuck them. We got it. We're all good. So Braden just like, oh, fuck. Because he's like, well, the Japanese want their money. That's all we hear of these crime lords from Japan.

We don't never see them or anything. So he's like, shit. He's always like, all right. So he kind of, Braden's like, getting into it with Kofano and then he turns around and Kofano's brother is standing there looking all rough and tough

and then he's like he's standing holding the gun and he's like all right well you go just see what basically says you know what tell you goons to get out of my way and Kavana was like yeah fuck you get out of here we don't need you anymore

because Braden did tell us look man don't double cross me don't don't try to find another deal without me. So he's like, yeah, we don't need you. So that is when we're introduced to Kathy and she's pantsless in the in the dojo. It works.

Yeah. I was like damn because she's in there trying to do it. And then Chow is training with her, I guess. And then she's just throwing these kicks and punches and does flips. And because he's like, well, because she goes, well, let's train. He goes, well, how are you going to train? You ain't got no pants. on. So she's like, all right, whatever. So she starts throwing punches

at him and everything. He's just blocking and pushing her all the way and then he flips her and she's laying there and no panties on. We don't see nothing because she brings her leg up. But yeah, there was nothing on under that top of her is she more than his assistant? I think she wanted to be

but I think it was, she was more, she was in cahoes with Braden. Yeah, it's just their little interaction here. I'm like, that's not what you do with your assistant she wanted that egg roll so so so uh because yeah because she's like oh chill come on and he's like nope i ain't i ain't about that man he's a better man than me because i don't win all right but so she's got like uh all right she gets all mad so uh we go to we see um confano

did that bum guy get it first or kafano's brother get it the brother got it after the bum okay yeah some little hobo with the iPatch he's uh i guess he's the ear to the street because kafano goes up there meets him up in this like a little little plaza area downtown somewhere and he goes up and he goes yeah man there's words on the street that there's uh shipments of uh of heroin coming in from Japan and I'm like

doesn't they already know this? Didn't he just get some? No, but okay. Telling him news that he already knows and he's like, all right, well just make sure you get some more information for me and they basically just give him 20 bucks.

So he's standing there. We see before all this, we see Braden he's kind of loading up all his little bag with all his little ninja gear. So we see him He's we see a hand like holding a star And then we see that

Cause that that bum guy kind of hanging out And then he goes falling in the water Everybody's screaming and they all run back over there And Cofano looks at him and he can't pull him out And he's laying he fell into this pool Like one of those fountains There's just blood pouring out And he flips him over

And an awesome practical effect Yeah That star went right into his good die and it just killed him. So they're like, fuck. So they just threw him back in. They all took off. Next scene, we get, um,

Kofano's brother that kind of got into it with Brayden in that meeting. And I don't know why they're in this park, but all right, they're just in a, like a regular park having a little barbecue or whatever, him and his family. And he's just kind of just getting going off on his family and on whatever they were eating.

And he goes, oh, this beer's going right through me. I got to go to the bathroom. So he walks over to the little restroom area. And then Braden's in there because we see Braden go in there. But he's like in his regular clothes and we see him walk in. I assume he's hiding in the stalls and he ninjas up. Kofano's brother is taking a piss and then he comes walking out.

And I think this is the first time we see him in his ninja gear because he's got this silver mask that he wears under his little ninja hood. Yeah. And I got that, well, who the fuck are you? And then he just kind of punches and gives him a straight shot to the heart. I thought that doesn't give him a heart attack because he kind of,

he falls back and he just like, ah. And then Braden like kicks him again. And then he just kind of grabs him and it snaps his neck. And then just leaves him there, takes all his gear off and walks away. We go to some house because we see like like a P.O. shot of somebody walking through this house.

We hear some little moaning and grunting around. They're wearing somebody's house. I thought it was an hotel room at first. And he kind of goes around this little. No, he looks around. Well, the camera looks around this little divider. And we see Kofano's nephew. And he's hooking up with some chick.

They're splashing around in the hot tub and making out and everything. and then we see Braden loading up his little ninja dart tube he pumps one in sticks there shoots it in the back of

a Kofano's nephew did you notice how when that thing went in it just like immediately got all red and yeah I was like what the hell was that? It looked like a little volcano

with that darting in the back the wound looked like he shot more than like a little dart. Yeah. We see, he kind of just, and then he falls over.

He loaded up two darts. I thought he was going to shoot him again or shoot that lady. But that guy, he falls forward and kind of falls on top of the girl. And this is what I didn't get. We'll get to it in the second. He falls over on top of her. And she's like,

huh, trying to push him off, but she can't. but Brayden walks over with his little dart tube and just pushes her down under the water for like two seconds and then she dies. I was like, really? She wasn't really trying to get up. Yeah, I mean, seriously, he just like pushed her down. And you see her kind of fidgeting. Then all of a sudden she just stopped moving and she's dead.

I'm like, all right. we see the cops and everybody show up I wasn't where introduced to what the hell was that cops named lieutenant dying is that what it is I thought you're going to talk about the martial arts police trainer

no not yet we didn't okay not yet so Kofano shows up lieutenants in there and then he's like oh great and then he Kofano walks him and goes oh is this my nephew He's like, yeah. He goes, why, do you want to see him?

He's like, what for? He goes, they're dead. And he goes, well, I think you need to see this. So he pulls the sheet off. And they're like still facing each other stuck together. And he goes, the coroner says it's going to take a jackhammer to get them apart. All right. When we first see them, they're like, I don't know if they were sitting or if they were on their hands and knees,

but they're hugging and kissing and all that. And then she falls when he gets shot in the back and then falls on. on top of her. But the way they made it seem that they were stuck together. So I'm like, was he standing up and just doing this thing? I'm going to get it how you can. So, so Kavah was like, oh, fuck. As lieutenant said, he's like yelling at, hey, man, if you know something, give me a name,

give me an address, who would do this and why? And Kofan was like, I don't know. Because at this point, they don't know. So they're like, all, whatever. So yeah, and this is when we find out Braden's in cahoots with Kathy because he's trying to get on her. And she's like, no, no, no. And he's like, come on, you got to do what you got to do. You got to help me get all this stuff.

Get those dolls with the heroin into the shop and get them over so we can sell it all. So, but all that was going on. We go to the police station because the Dave. he's Dave Hatcher. He's the martial arts police officer instructor. I don't know. He was,

he had all these these guys. I assume police officers and they wanted to train because he was beating the shit out all of them in this training class. And the lieutenant's like, yeah,

this is the guy we need to talk to about this. He showed him that star. And he was like, look, he goes, if you know something about this type of thing could you uh can you help us out and he goes well i i know someone uh that can

that knows stuff about this so that's when he goes to see choh and they kind of have a little sparring match and uh choh beast the shit out of dave in their in his little uh dojo but he does tell him he's like look man he goes i need your help just just come down to the station and uh let this lieutenant know what's up but he's like i can't man i don't have time for all this he goes we got the grand opening like in a couple days like just come down and help us out so he goes down there and he looks at the star and he knows and they go well what can you tell us about this and he goes well this is this is uh i don't think he called it a ninja star but he was like this is used for killing obviously and he goes he goes but it's really precise because he said uh the the length of the

the little blades that are on it they go it'll if you hit right it will it will basically puncture your brain because that's what it did to this hobo guy so he's like so the lieutenant's like well come on man he looks like you know more than we do so come on let's help us out and he's like tell him the same thing I don't

I don't have time for this this doesn't involve me he goes you do what you guys got to do and I got to go back and do my gallery so he's like all right but I did like this part did that lieutenant guy walk over there and

purposely knocked that cup of coffee off? For the movie, we're going to say, yeah. Because he knocks it off and then Cho grabs it like hella fast. It's all slow motion. Then he puts the coffee cup back on the table. It's pretty basically full. So that thing was to just drop straight down.

So the lieutenant just looks at him and shows just like, all right. So, but we go back to the gallery. Oh, no, no. Um, Cofano, he's like, all right,

I, I know what's going on now. He goes, you know what? Uh, I need you guys to, uh, go to that gallery and

take everything out of it. Go in there and wreck it, but bring back those dolls because they know that's, the heroin was in that. So he gets, he goes, Hey, chief,

come here. And this is when we see Don Shanks. And for those you that have seen this film, he's long hair, got braids. He's got braids. He's got. got the leather knee-high moccasins or whatever you want to call him.

I remember the first time seeing this going, what the fuck are we watching? Different times there was before I realized that he was native. But then I do know some guys that dressed like this back in the day. If you've seen this film, you know them. It's not like stereotypical shit, kind of in a way. But I did know some guys, especially in the 80s that had their hair. hair like this. And one of my buddies's dad, he still dresses like this.

So, I mean, he kept it real since we were kids. So when I see this guy, Don Shanks' chief, I think of my, my friend's dad. Well, it's just a good thing that he is Native American because some of the movies we covered on here, like

Stephen Lang and was it James Remar. Oh, yeah. Different times, everybody, in the early 80s. So, because yeah, you go to, yeah, man, chief, go over there and do something. And if someone gets in your way, scalp them. Oh, my God, man. Movies have changed, everyone.

So we go to the studio or to the gallery and they're in there, wrecking the place and they got all the dolls and they're loading up in the back of the van show shows up. He walks in and sees the place was wrecked and all the dolls. are gone so he kind of runs to the back and this is when we see Chief and the rest of the gang loading everything up into the van

and this is when Cho comes out and just starts kicking ass in the back of the gallery this part was badass man because those dudes are coming at him and he was just fucking them up left and right so I loved all that shit but it it's a cool fight scene

because when he comes out these guys are just throwing garbage and everything at him and then no weapon because he's just all hands and feet and he's just kicking his shit out of even one dude came out of him with a bag of recycled aluminum cans another dude

tries to throw a big barrel on him but he gets kicked and then it falls on him because he first kicks the shit out of the first three guys that are out there and then chief I don't know what he was doing on the roof with a empty crate coming up the top row he comes

he comes down crashing on top of Cho and breaks that and then they they started getting into it but uh show was just beating the shit out of these guys man they they came at him with whatever they could find I mean sticks and pipes and everything that are laying around his back but when Chiefs jumps into him he starts kicking ass I love how he pulls out I don't know what it is maybe I need to get one uh in all these type of movies especially these crazy ones when they got native guys they all have big ass like Bucknob knives. So I don't know. I guess I need to have one on me at all times. But it's cool. I mean,

Don Shanks is a stunt man. And he was out there. Good choreography. It is him with all the stunts as well as during the fight scenes. But Cho's beating his ass. And he, I don't know where he's getting all these knives and everything. But he's pulling these knives out of his ass and just throwing at him. They all jump in their van and they take off. And I love the, part. I don't know how much of Shokosugi this was, but he goes running after the van. He jumps onto the back

and I love how he gets in because when they kick open the doors and he falls off. The van takes off, but then this part I love it. It's just amazing. He runs along and then just does these flips over the walls and the fences.

Oh man, I was dying the first time I saw this, but it looks like him. It looks like it's actually, you know. The last one, when he flips over that wall and then lands on top of the car, he does like a Jackie Chan rumble in the Bronx when he's running up and down those cars. We need to do that one at some point. But Rumble in the Bronx is a super cop.

Shout out to Academy Award winner, Michelle. Yeah. Anyway, so he jumps on top of the van. And I give it to all these stunt men, especially this dude that did this stunt. it does look like Shokensugi for most of it but then this guy he does like a flip or he swings in and kicks through the

windshield and the four guys that are in the van I don't know why they didn't just stop to fight but the van still hauling ass down the road and they're just beating the shit out of each other in the van it's awesome they're crashing into cars crashing into garbage that's on the sidewalk and everything and they're just these kicking guys that fall

falling out of the back of the van. I'll give it to that one stunt guy because it was moving pretty fast and he kicks that dude out. And he just falls right out on his back. There's the van's rolling. But so yeah, the van is still hauling ass down the street,

knocking over boxes, knocking over fire hydrants. But then the van crashes into a parked car. And this part was hell of funny because when it stops, and there's no windshield and nobody wears seatbelts and they all go flying out of the front out of the windshield onto the street.

Did the guy in the car that they crashed? Did he come out and get into the fight? I think he did. He started to just get this ass kicks. He comes climbing over and jumps right on top of Cho and just joins in with these guys. But he starts kicking ass. And all right, everyone.

Chief, we see him, Don Shank. the first two guys come at him he beats them up we see chief reaching behind his back and i don't know how he had those two big uh tomahawks i guess if that's what you want to call but he pulls him out from uh i assume out of his pants or whatever and then they just start um he starts swinging at him and you got to respect it though that guy that guy came prepared Yeah, he had all these knives, a huge buck knife. Now he's got two tomahawks and he's swinging him at him. He slices him.

He gets Cho a couple times with it. But Cho just starts whooping that ass still. And then he gets roundhouse's chief in a car. He starts beating up the other dudes that they keep getting up and coming after him. I assume that guy was mad because the dude, the guy, his car got hit. And he comes in fighting with him. Chief gets back up And he's still fighting with Cho

But then Cho kind of gets him in like A neck breaker But he did break his neck Instead of dropping him straight to the floor He grabs the back of his neck And then just snaps it So he chief is dead One of the other dudes gets back in the van

He reaches in the glove compartment And pulls out a gun I don't know how far Cho was But that guy can't shoot Because Joe's ducking and dodging and flipping and flopping and the bullets are missing him. But that guy gets the van started and then he goes hauling ass down the road. And I'll give it to this stunt man, whoever was being Cho during this because Cho's getting

dragged on the cement. And you see his pants just in knees just hitting the cement, his shoes and everything. And he's already all beat up and bloody. He tries to crawl back into the back of the van, but the door breaks off. and then while he's holding onto the door getting dragged, here comes this other car that slams into him. And the scene gets cut really quick, but it looked like that car that hits him,

hit him. That's probably why I cut cut. Yeah, because, yeah, there's a quick cut, and then we see Cho just kind of rolling off to the side, and he's all beat up in the van. It gets away.

I don't know if they had any of the stuff in there, because it looked empty when they were in their fighting. So I don't know. But show when he stands up, his knees should be just pouring out blood and to the bone because he got dragged for blocks. But he's just got like a couple little scrapes on his legs and everything. And I'm like, come on. But while that was going, while all that fighting was going on, Braden goes to the, to the gallery, and he sneaks in there, and he's looking around, trying to see what's going on.

I think he went there to try to get the dolls, too, but they were already gone. But when he's lurking around in there, he makes some noise, but then grandma, she hears him, because she's, like, in her room, and then she kind of walks out and sees Braden's there. Because he comes crawling down from the rafters. Um, now this is a little rope ladder or whatever. Yeah, because he, he used a rope to go his little ninja rope to climb up to the roof from the side. I'm like, why didn't you just go to the back and walk up the stairs? But all right.

So. It's not the ninja way. He gets in. Yeah, he's got his little ninja ladder. He climbs down. And then grandma comes in. She comes in the place. She walks in there and sees him.

He sees her. And she's, he's about to fight. and then she throws a little ninja cloud my little ninja smoke bomb and then she disappears and then she gets in action

she's doing flips which I call it was when she did the clearly it wasn't her flipping but when she did the land and turn around it made me think of I'm going to get you suckers yeah so that part was awesome

and then because she's kicking his too. She pulls out not a sword, I think whatever bow staff or something that was in there because he starts fighting her but then yeah she did the the ninja smoke bomb and then

she kind of disappears so he goes looking around he's holding his sword and then he just turns around and sticks it through the wall and then you just hear it go and then we see blood kind of trickle down and he turned

he flips that door around and it's uh he he stabbed grandma through and they killed her so he's like all right so i don't know why he took it he's standing looking at it then he takes off his mask and everything and then he hears something and we see little cane he comes he's walking on top of the the roof of the show of the gallery and he goes up and he's looking down into where uh braiden came down from raden turns around sees him and then he starts trying to climb up uh back up that ladder and little cane pulls out his pocket knife and cuts the ladder ele fast but brayden gets up there he runs up the stairs and climbs in and then he starts chasing cane and but can't gets away i love how he was hiding behind something and brayden through that star and it went all the way

through that big round aluminum thing it almost got him in the face but he gets away just cane just kind of he's ducking and dodging and hiding under things and he gets away So Braden's like, oh, fuck, wow, I got to get out of here. So while he's out of there, here comes Cho. He comes walking the street, bleeding all over the place. And he goes into the gallery and he finds his mom. And he's like, oh, fuck. And Kane is gone.

So he doesn't know what's happening. So then Dave kind of comes up. And he's telling him, it was like, yeah, yeah, man. He goes, we're going to figure out what's going on because he's telling him, was like, yeah, Kane's gone. And we need to find him. And he's like, well, where is he? Because no, Kathy came into play as well.

And she was trying to say, well, we got to find him. And he's like, he's not going to come out until it's safe. Okay. It seemed like he was gone for like a day. Yeah. Because they didn't, I don't know where Kane went, but all right. I don't even know why he was on the roof in the first place. Yeah, because.

when Dave and Cho, they go walking around and go, hey, I think I know some guys that might know something. Fucking Dave. Yeah, so this is when they go to the local park. They go to the local park. And I don't know why there were so many people there. The play structures, but here's the rest of the village, the rest of the village people. got the cowboy and everything he walks up to them

and Dave's like come on guys man what do you guys know and I'm like why did he go to these guys I mean they were these are the guys you go to if you want to find out about street shit all right I don't know if I'm going to walk

up to some guy dressed up as a cowboy from the village people hanging out at a park And the other guy, okay, the white guy's dressed up as a cowboy. There's another guy. I believe the other two guys are Asian. One looked like a biker

and his leather and spikes. And the black guy was in roller skates and the super duper high shorts and a wife beater. And I think he had head. No, they had that little radio. It wasn't a ghetto blaster, but it was a small little radio.

And the other dude had one of those rising sun Japanese shirts on and a headband. Because then they kind of just, laughing at Cho and then I believe in him but then Cho's like F this he goes up and kicks or he breaks the table that they're all sitting on and then they all get into this big huge brawl

in the park and it's hell funny man there's like 30 people standing around watching Cho beat the shit out of these guys I think the cowboy gets it the worst because he gets his ass kicked by both of them and he gets his half of his mustache

sliced off one big biker Look at a dude Spikes, he's got brass knuckles on He comes at Cho with a knife But I love this because Cho pulls out that fan And my friend has one of those And I was like, have you ever cut anything?

He meant mostly guy was like paper cuts He goes, but I mean, you guys know how paper cut Feels so I'm soon getting sliced by a fan It will hurt So while Cho's beating the shit out of one dude Dave is over there beating up the cowboy Got in my arm bar And just beating the shit out of him

And then we get to the play structure Cho and that other Asian guy Are up there fighting They're running along those These are big huge play structures With the ones with the bridges and everything And the big giant Thick rope nets

I'll give it to this cowboy Because he gets kicked And flies off one and lands on it I've fell off one of those things one time. We were playing and I wasn't really paying attention to my footing and I fell pretty high. Luckily, I landed on those big old rope net things,

but it still had a little give and I hit the ground hell hard. But yeah, because they're all, they're up there fighting and Dave's beating up the cowboy, chose up atop fighting the dude, the Asian guy. And I don't know where this guy got this stick from, but he's swinging it around.

And Cho's beating the shit out of him. I loved him how he just, he grabs that guy in the balls and then flips around. And he jumps on top of him and just starts beating the hell out of him and stomping him in the face. And that stick that he had, he pulls the handle out and it's got a blade. But Cho is bringing it to him with the stick and just beats the hell out of him. I don't think nobody got killed during this they all just got

the hell beating out of him I thought he killed the Asian dude but he just kind of like knocked him out with a stick so he goes back down Dave is still beating the shit out of the cowboy and then Cho gets in there

and starts whipping him up but I loved how Cho just kicked that Asian guy down the slide and then he goes head first now Cho is He's taking on the cowboy guy, and he pulls out two fans. And I don't know where this guy got the two-by-four from, but he's swinging at him. And he's beating the shit out of him.

Dangerous park. And he uses the fan and cuts off half of that cowboy's mustache off. And he just beats the hell out of him. Dave is fighting the other biker-looking dude. Kane or cane, Cho pulls out of like a dagger, like a throwing knife. and he just beats the hell out of that cowboy and then stabs him in the foot and goes through his boot all the way through

and stabs into that two by four and he falls or screaming. So while that's going on, the roller skater, the black guy, he comes peeking around the corner and he's got a gun and he just starts shooting at a show.

And there's like, everyone's standing around. Everyone just ducks and no one runs or highs as soon as the gun starts shooting. but shows like he's hiding behind one of the little pillars of the play structure he's got an awesome belt and has got a star on it so he takes that off throws it across the park hits that black guy in the hand he drops his gun

and he just falls down so all these guys are beat to hell and then they just leave they got no information so this whole fight scene was awesome but it didn't serve any purpose to the story because they just Dave and his his leads and they just beat the shit

at everybody that took off so while that's going on Kane comes walking back to the gallery and he walks in there and he sees it all wrecked and then he's

Kathy's in the in the dojo just oh wait we skipped very important scene. How Braden's trying to convince Kathy to go get Kane and she doesn't want to

and then he uses his ninja magic hypnotizing powers. He made his eyes green and everything. I was like is this a thing? Because I don't think I've seen a ninja hypnotized somebody before.

Yeah. I have no idea. But I guess when you train for 20 years in Japan and the art of ninjitsu and whatever else they called it, they teach you that. But yeah, when he was, he hypnotized her and told her to go back and find Kane. So, yeah, she's in the dojo training, I guess. And then Kane comes walking in and he's kind of freaked out to know if he can trust her. So I don't know. she never gave him any kind of reason to not trust her but all right i guess move the story

along she i think she said you can sense you're just like your father you can sense something's wrong i was like if he couldn't he knows something's wrong now he just told him so she goes this was a cool little fight because she tries to grab him and then he's he's kicking her and crawling under her legs and doing the spin kicks and hitting her and then he goes crawling and crashes head first into the wall I loved that I kept going ah ah ah as he was screaming as he was fighting her so she pulled out uh yeah stick and tried swinging at her but then he was blocking it all but then I loved how he got close to the wall and it looked like a like a little

banister or something but it's like a little boasts staff. He pulls that off and then he just I mean, this kid is legit, man. He's the real deal. I mean, he knew the moves and he's able to work with the weapons because the way he was swinging that thing around reminded me like a lightsaber.

The way he was swinging that little wood staff around. He was lighting her up with it. But then she grabbed it and then she pulled the tip off and it had a little blade. And he basically could have just killed her anytime. But he kind of

Like just put his guard down and then just turned around and walked away. And all she did was run up and pick him up. And nah, I was like, come on, kid. You were just beating the shit out of her. And then this is how she's going to catch you. So it's a movie, everyone. So she takes them back to Braden's layer. I don't know where they were in some apartment building, I guess.

But Professor Tanaka, he's there. I love him. I mean, he just from me. He looks exactly like. Like my uncle Robert, shout out to him, rest and peace. He's just, he rarely says anything. All he does is just smile and laugh. So he's like, all right, we're here, you guys take care of him.

And Braden tells Tanaka, what's his? Oh, he just, it's just named sumo servant in this. Okay. he tells him he's like yeah man uh just keep an eye on her and if she gets out of line you know what to do there he's like all right so that's when uh

shit what happened i know chow goes back to the gallery i think this is when he goes in and he finds uh his mom I think I already said that He found her I don't know how many days went by Because they had a funeral

Yeah Because Cho was there And grandma's there His mom's there She's in her casket And everything And he's there

In the little temple Or wherever they are And Dave comes in Come on man We got we gotta do it We know what's happening now Come on We gotta go

What fuck is this guy Dave I don't know His friend So So they're like, all right, well, what are we doing? What are we doing? He goes, well, he goes, I know I got to do what I got to do to help. He goes, plus I got to find cane and everything.

And so I was like, all right, well, we'll do what we got to do. So when they're back at the, at the studio, at the gallery, Kathy's like trying to get word to Cho. So she tries calling but Professor Tanaka comes in, laughing around and just what are you doing? And she just kind of stops and everything. Braden comes in and he kind of realized what's happening like, all right. Oh,

Tanaka was trying to force himself on Kathy because he was laughing around and she's half naked. I don't think this is what Braden meant by you know what to do. that she gets out of line. So, yeah, he's trying to just manhandle her, but then Braden comes in and then just these guys little ninja cable or whatever

wraps it around Professor Tanakas and just strangles him and kills him. So he's like, all right, well, we know what's happening now. And then he brings in another dude. And I don't even know that guy's name. I don't even know if he's listed, but he brings in some other, I think he's big thug

I don't know I could be wrong But he brings another shirt list the whole time Yeah So another guy I assume he's Japanese Because he had the tattooed The Japanese tattoos

And everything So He's like all right Here you got Kane Take care of him And then her here Stick her in the hot tub And blast her with the jacuzzi jets

And so He's like all right I'm gonna go Because he was gonna go Braden was going to go after Capano. He's like, look, man, I got to go over there and deal with them. So Braden just tells his whole plan why Kathy's there, so she hears it all. So Kane is in like the sauna, sweating his ass off and his hands are tied.

And Kathy's in the hot tub and the little jacuzzi jets are blasting her in the face. And that other Asian guy was laughing. I guess he had her. her legs tied with the rope or something. Because he kept pulling her and she, her head was slipping under the water. So she's like, ha, ha, ha, ha, laughing and doing all that.

And then Kane kind of says, if this, he gets up and holds his hands tied in front of him. He holds it over those hot little sauna rocks. All right. I don't know if you guys ever been in one of those things, but those little rocks and everything. That little one gets hot.

Kane is holding his hands over there, other than he's just sweating. wetting his hands off and he's trying to burn those ropes. Basically burns through all the ropes and gets out, but his hands are fine. I'm like, if it burned through that rope, man, your hands would have been just roasted. But, but he's a ninja. Well, he's ninja in training. So, that's good enough.

Like, all right, man. So he's in there and he goes, hey. And that dude, the other guy turns around. He looks in and then Kane kicks the door. open and that guy's head smashes through the window oh that guy had like some silver nunchucks too

but Kane gets those and then it goes to town like I said man this little kid's legit he knows how he was working those weapons I don't really I love the scene but I wish it wasn't so

steamy and foggy in there because yeah we see we see Kane kicking ass but it's like behind all this steam. So we're like man weak. So but

once they did they kill him? I think they just knocked him out and sent him packing. I can't remember how how they got away. But I think

they just knocked him out or something because I don't think King killed him. But Kathy gets out of the tub. She's basically she ain't naked she got a wife beat her on her no bra on it must have been cold because the the high beams were on and cain's standing right in front of her uh we we just see the back of his head i don't know if he's looking straight ahead or looking up at her but you know where he was looking

so he was looking where the rest of us were we're looking so she uh gets on the phone and she calls uh the gallery chow is there and she's telling us like yeah uh brayton he's he's a ninja and he's going after this guy named kofano and uh i have cane so we're all right and chos like but brayton's my friend what are you doing and he goes no no he's in cohuts uh with these uh mafia dudes or whatever so he's like all right so okay question he's been friends with bradden for like 20 some years did he know he was a ninja um at the time no but when uh day Dave was there.

And then when he finally goes, yeah, Braden, he's behind this and he's a ninja. And then he did the Dave's like, but he's, he's American. How can he be a ninja? And he goes, he's lived in Japan for 20 years. And he trained in ninjitsu and some other style. He said it, but I can't remember what he said. Frank O'Neiro. Yeah, this one.

Okay. Say, yeah, you just go to some random school. Hey, man, I'm here. teach me. All right. So that's what Braden did. So he's like, so he's a ninja. And then he's like, well, come on, man. Let's go do it. And he goes, no, I have to do it because only a ninja can kill a ninja. And so he's like, well, well, all right. But I'm going to come along too. So this is when we see Cho gearing up. And he'd sworn to never be to kill anymore, basically not be a ninja anymore because he had his little sword all tied up with that little paper string or whatever

that was when he starts pulling the stuff out the specially lit it special ninja box yeah because he's that and then when he went into the temple i assume this was all the gallery and he's in there praying and gearing it up i said this in that last movie in the last end of the ninja and how much shit they carry dude he had hell of the shit in front of him of him. His swords, his daggers, his size,

his stars, those little darts, those little silver. Not as much as Braden when we get to that final confrontation. Yeah, he had everything,

everything but the kitchen sink. We'll get there in a minute. Yeah, so he gears up with all his stuff, and then he goes downtown to the building. Braden is already there. Kofano got everybody and his whole crew

loaded them all up with the M-16s and whatever they can carry and I'm like I don't know the gun laws and well this is supposedly L.A. You can't just stand out in front of a building with a machine gun so but then it was in the 80s different times. Anyway

so they're all outside garden the building Braden's see that he's kind of looking around and he's like sees over and sees this next building so he goes over to the next building. He breaks out this big, giant, uh, um,

uh, ninja bow. It, it retracts and he hooks it all up. He opens up this window and he's got his big giant, uh, ninja arrows with little, uh,

screw heads. I don't know how this works, but all right. He pulls back, shoots it across. Uh, the arrow hits the wall and then immediately start screwing into the wall. I'm like,

okay, cool. So he hooks all that up. He pulls the rope back over because he had it on a cable. And then he hooks up this other rope. And then he gets his little ninja, his little ninja pulley and shimmies across the rope and gets into the other building. But I loved how he just goes and crashes through the window.

Make all the noise you can. And he's trying to be all secret and quiet. So he goes walking through the building trying to find a fire. know. Cho, he shows up because Kathy told him where everything was going down. And Dave shows up as well,

but he tries to go through the front door and all those goons are out there with the machine guns. And they're like, hey, we don't need you. He goes, well, I'm going in anyway. And then he just beats the shit out of all these guys with guns. And then he rolls. Isn't he the police? Yeah. He had his police jacket on. He doesn't know.

police words, beats the shit at it everybody. Beating the village people in the parks with all these witnesses watching. So, yeah, he had that windbreaker with the police on the back. Yeah, that's right. So he rolls in and he beat

the shit out of all those dudes. There was like hell of dudes out surrounding that building, but he only ran through like four of them to get in. He goes in. Cho shows up, and he's looking around, and he pulls out the little ninja claws and to go on his hands and his feet. And then he starts shimmying up the wall.

And I'll give it to him, man. If you could do that, I don't know how many stories he went, but he went pretty, at least halfway up that building along the side. Again, all in the daytime. And I'm surprised none of these guys that all had machine guns saw this black figure crawling up the side of the wall. So I was like, all right, go. whatever.

So he finally gets into the building. When Braden got in, this part was cool. I love this. This is not like one of my favorite parts. He's running around the halls and then he goes up to this one door and then he pulls out his little ninja pick the lock tool kit. And he's doing that. And we see this other guy coming down the hall.

Raiden reaches into his little, his little ghee pulls out this handful of these little spikes, silver spikes throws them behind them, that guy comes running up, hey, what are you doing? And instead of just, you see this guy in a black ninjasie, why don't you just start opening fire?

But no, let me run all the way up to you to make sure you're all right. So he comes running, as he's running up, those little spikes are all on the floor, on the rug in the hallway, and then reaches in his other pocket,

pulls out this handful of those little steel marbles and throws those on the ground. That guy comes running over. I don't know. he didn't see all this on the floor, but he slips on the marbles face first right into the little spikes and he gets up, ah! I don't know how many he had stabbed into his face. And I assume they had poison on him because he just healed over and died.

So Braden gets into the room. He goes in. Cho's running around. He's looking around. He's going in and out of the halls looking around trying to find Braden. And then all these goons that are in the. the stairwell. This part was cool too. One of them, he goes in, he sees one of the little goons going up the stairs so he stops and he tries to turn around and run back out of the

little stairwell. But when another guy comes running up, he grabs Cho's mask and pulls it down and then Cho just goes spits out. He had like a mouth full of those little spikes that Braden had, the little ninja spikes and they, I don't know how many shout into that guy's face and he's a so he's got hell of him and then the dude comes down and show stabs that dude and kills them uh brayden gets into it with a few guys up uh they were running around he ends up killing them and uh choh killed a few more guys and right but uh dave he comes running down the hall and uh but brayden kind of like just sticks his little uh thing i don't know I think it was his sword or it was still in the little sword holder stops him.

Dave tries to fight him, but Braden just beast his shit out of him really fast. Oh, it was like a like a staff because when he stabs or he pushes Dave up against the wall, he flicks the switch and that blade comes out. Yeah. Goes into Dave. So Dave's like,

oh, he falls down and he just takes off. So what you get for fucking with ninjas trying to claim you're a martial arts expert. So Dave is laid in the hallway Cho comes running around the corner And Braden takes off And Cho, I runs up to Dave and Dave Oh man, I got a few good ones in man He's all yours now and then he's like

Oh man, what's up? And then he kind of just keels over and he dies So Cho's like fuck man He just killed my mom and I just killed my best friend Or one of my best friends Because Braden was his friend But then he found out he was bad So he's like shit

So, Kaffano's in his room, and he's like, he's got his machine going, yeah, this is what we use to take care of our family. And then there's someone out in the hallway and then Braden kills one of those dudes. And then Kofano's like, hey, man, go out there and see what that noise is. That guy goes out. He gets sliced and diced. And the Kofano just starts opening up, opening fire in pretty much in every direction. And then all of a sudden, ah, he gets. stabbed in the hand with something.

Did he kill him? Because we just see him like fall over and that's it. I think we're supposed to assume that he got killed. I guess the ninja poison on the dart or whatever. I don't know because he he kind of keels over and then that's it. Oh, we get up to the rooftop. And this is where the final fight begins. because they both go up there.

Braden's already up there. Cho kind of comes around and they're standing on the top of this building and they're looking at each other and they kind of just have a little standoff and then this is when they point down to the little ninja fighting pit. I think it was just a tennis court.

I don't know how they look like it was two-story. but they just jump down. And you can clearly see they didn't land on their feet, but somehow they do. They jumped onto a big old, one of those big stuntman air things. So, but they land,

they kind of kneel down in their little poses, start doing their crazy little things with their fingers. I don't know what that means, but they're just gearing up for battle. So they're all ready. Then they pull out their swords, and then they just run at each other and just ching, ching, ching, start fighting and everything.

And this is badass. They're doing the flips, the kicks, the slices and everything. Braden was bringing it to him because he didn't really get any casualty or any kind of cuts or anything until towards the end. But I was like, all right, cool. I mean, because they're pulling out stars and everything. I loved how when Braden pulled out the stars, Cho just hit it out of the sky. And then the other one, he caught it in the blade or in the, the handle of the sword.

So, Braden pulls out some little like chain and he throws it over and it wraps around Cho's sword and pulls it out of his hand and it goes hiding somewhere. But, all right. Braden,

20 years to be this master ninja. Who knows? I assume Cho was training when he was a little little kid like Kane. So he probably had 20 years on him 40 probably total

He didn't learn the tricks Braden learned No and Braden brought everything Like we said but the kitchen sink Because they were fighting on the tennis courts And then they're starting to run around The rooftops of this building that they're on And Braden's just disappearing

And throwing his little ninja bombs and everything And Cho was still running around this part was it's funny but I'm like okay even when I first saw this part I was kind of like how the hell did he do this Cho's looking around Braden peeks around the corner

and he grabs Cho by the neck and Cho turns around really fast and we see Braden standing there and he brings his sword down and cuts him in half I assume Braden was carrying

this big mannequin dressed like him in order for him to set that up hello fast and choke cut it down the center I was like all right so it's a movie ninja ninja secrets

everybody so but I remember laughing and the whole theater was like what no so I remember just sitting there dying because the second time when I watched this. I knew that was coming and I was like, oh, fuck, here we go. Same thing. Got a huge pop. Everybody laughed and everybody started clapping.

So, Cho is still running around looking for him. This part made me laugh too. He's, there's like a hot tub on top of this building. And shows, he's like, he's closer to the edge. And his hand comes out out of the water and grabs Cho's foot. And Cho's got, um, it's one of the those little staffs that are a baton that has a little hook looking things that retract up and down

he has that out so when the hand grabs his leg he brings that down and cuts the arm but then when he lifts his foot it's like a mechanical arm and he's like what so

not only did Braden bring up this big giant manikin that's the size of him also had these mechanical arms in the pool in the hot tub in order to grab Cho.

Luckily he was walking right along the edge. I chose looking into it. He doesn't really know what's going on. He's looking around. But then Braden comes jumping out of the hot tub and slices. He'll leave his breath the whole time.

Yeah. And the slices Cho in the knees and he goes falling down. So Cho jumps up and goes running after him. Instead of running, they immediately all start doing these backflips one another. More Ninja smoke bombs go off. Braden disappears. Cho's still looking for him.

I don't know how he got two stories up on top of the highest part of the building. I did like this part, though. So when Cho sees him up there, he goes, I don't know what these doors are, but they open up. and Cho comes jumping out of him, lands right on the edge of the building. And any more force, he'll, ah, maybe he felt it was death, but he's got ninja balance. So he jumps down, he's running around still looking for Braden, and Braden's still hiding. Master Ninja, and only had with 20 years of practice.

So Cho's just looking for him. and I don't know he should have been dead by now with all the cuts he's got in him because he took a slice of the knees some other slice of the arms he took a dagger to the shoulder and everything but he's still he's still going strong he's chasing braden through the building or through the top braiden pops up and he starts more fighting he pulls out his little staff with a little blade in the front of it they keep fighting they had beating the shit out of each other and just brain was bringing it to him this whole time and he could he probably could have killed chow at uh any any second but um show find mannequins

chow finds his uh his his his uh katana sword somewhere because it got thrown earlier but then he's got it back uh brayden had like a big bow staff but then when he pulled it out it had a blade in it too turned into basically another store so, or sword. So they're fighting and they're beating the hell out of each other. So once they finally get up to this platform and they're, they kind of go at it. Again, Brayton's beating the shit out of show and just put all kinds of cuts and stabs and everything into them.

So they get up onto the platform and they're looking at their other. They come at each other. Kathy and Kane show up The police are already downstairs So back up on the roof Cho was still looking around for Braden But Cho got a little too close to the edge

Braden pops up And pushes Cho off the building But with his ninja reflexes He was quick enough to throw out the ninja grappling And it grabs It looks like he felt like about four stories because he goes crawling back up the side of the building and they finally get up to this big platform on the very top.

They finally pull out their swords and they have an awesome little just fight back and forth flipping and everything. But Braden finally meets his match because Kane are a cane. Cho really starts bringing it to him. All this, Kane, Starr, Braden still has that silver mask on. and they're both getting the shit and stabbed out of each other. So this is when he pulls out his flamethrower. Because when Cain, when Chos fighting him,

the flame door comes out, he kind of gets him, but then nothing really, he doesn't burn him or nothing. He does slice braiding in the knees a couple of times before he pulls out the flame thore. But then nothing, nothing happens. So they get the katana swords again. They're still fighting and beating the hell out of each other.

But Cho, he gets the upper hand. He's quicker, quicker on the draw. He pulls out. He flips it around. He kind of, no, he gets braiding on the ground. He starts stabbing at him and missing and everything. And then they're still swinging the swords around. Because like I said, this fight went on 10 minutes.

But then finally, they pull out. out like it looks like a dagger. Braden he Braiden has it. He swings it around. Cho kind of grabs it and then slowly forces it into

Braden's stomach. And then he goes falling down. And then when he falls down, Cho pulls that dagger out of his chest and slices them down and cuts that silver mask in half. But when Joe gets there, Braden gets stabbed. than the stomach.

I'm watching this on YouTube. I think mine, my Blu-ray is the unrated one. Because on this clip on YouTube, they show blood fallout like really quick, like just a quick little spray, but nothing too graphic. On the Blu-ray and on the,

either tubey or whatever the hell it was on, Pluto, the blood just, goes pouring out out of Brayden's the chest and then he just kind of falls over and then that's the end of Braden here comes Kane

he comes running up the top of the building with Kathy and the rest of the police and Cho sees him and ah he's all happy he runs up and picks up his son hugs his son and he looks over at Kathy smiles at her and then nice little helicopter shot and that's the end of your

movie because the credits start rolling but wanted to see how he explained all that to the police yeah i mean ninjas mafia drug dealers uh japanese

drug dealers uh village people hit hit man and i don't know it was this movie was out of control

but I loved it and I was there for all of it um I guess the budget for this uh film was 700,000 and it boxed office 14 million so it definitely made its money uh i wish we would have got more than just the these three not really sure how um into the ninja did uh box office wise let me click and see because i don't think we talked about it uh quick uh oh go ahead uh the budget

for enter the ninja was 1.5 million at boxed office uh 15 million so I assume that's why we got Revenge of the Ninja. I will tell you the rest when we get to Ninja 3, but Revenge of the Ninja is awesome, everyone. I got some comments here from some people that I was posting when I was watching this. Well, first ones from Zim Vader, the demand is the reason why we are watching this trilogy. And he said, best ninja, the best ever. ninja movie. I agree. My favorite.

Mike Bracken from the horror geek YouTube channel. He says, I wore this tape out back in the day. Rented it so many times a video store finally sold it to me. With all the track marks in it. Jeremy Knox

said the Canon Ninja trilogy is highly underrated. The last one is a bit wonky, but the rest are top notch awesome. And then the last comment is from Nightmare Junkhead, another great podcast. Things I learned from this movie, only a ninja can defeat a ninja, and you should always wear pants when sparring. And wear underwear. But this movie is awesome.

If you guys want to watch it, either I say buy the Blu-ray or it's Pluto TV is where it's on. It's the unrated one, because like I said, all. the blood went pouring out of Braden at the end on that one. But if you can deal with the commercials, go for it. But yeah, Ninja 3, everyone. Our Revenge of the Ninja, it looks awesome. What's this midnight movie? Is it something new?

What's midnight movie? I don't know. I just saw a trailer for something called Midnight Movie. I don't know. I'm going to look it up. It looked pretty cool. But anyway, but this director, Sam Fierstenberg, what else has he done that we know of? American Ninja 1 and 2?

I already did that, everyone. That makes sense because they're pulling out flamethrows in this one. And it wasn't one of the American ninjas, whereas ninja has. had like a wrist laser or something. I don't know. Okay. He directed this one. He did Ninja 3.

He did a break in two, Electric Bugaloo. Awesome film. You haven't seen the breaking movies. If they're streaming anywhere, we're going to have to do them. American Ninja. He did avenging force.

Zim wants us to do avenging force also. That's all once a long time ago. in the video days Cyborg He did that one? No, Cyborg cop

Yeah, he did Cyborg Cop 2 I thought it was like Van Dam One Hmm

I've seen his earlier stuff But I don't Vengeing force I know I've seen it Um There's a Michael Dutikoff And what's his name?

Who else was in this? Oh, Kung Fu Joe. Yeah, that's good. Stephen James. Yeah, that's how far. How far did we get in the American Ninja ones? The first two. All right.

Well, is it how many? Is there five? Is that? All right. Yeah. we might as well we started that rabbit hole took a pause but yeah everyone

we uh will be back with the ninja three the domination the domination uh we need to do black eagle huh i'm sorry we just have to it's uh yeah they got the father and son duo in that one crackle TV everyone

uh show casu uh cane is back what's his name Gene Davis from Warren Stacy from 10 to midnight You guys remember that Was that for here or? Stream things.

Okay. Go back and listen to that. It was awesome and the great Van Dam. I saw this movie once and it was a rental and Crackle TV, everyone.

That's where it's shown. We'll get to it eventually. I don't know when, but yeah, we need to do that one. Come back next week for Ninja 3. And like I said, I have not seen it in years. I have the Blu-ray, and I just bought it and put it on the shelf. But we're going to round out the ninja stuff.

Yeah, all I remember is it's a movie. Yeah. So with that, everyone, Um, just go to the horror returns.com. There's links to everything. Action returns, Dream Feins.

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Um, I don't remember. I think I bought it when I first came out and it was I really need to just slow my role on these. I mean, but scream fiend and all that are scream fiend of the scream factory sometimes they do the limited stuff so i yeah see them i just buy them because i don't know if they're going to be around much longer so but yeah ninja three

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