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An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman's body.An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman's body.An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman's body.
Shô Kosugi
- Yamada
- (as Sho Kosugi)
John LaMotta
- Case
- (as John La Motta)
Steven Lambert
- Pilot
- (as Steve Lambert)
Earl W. Smith
- Jefferson
- (as Earl Smith)
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This is probably the only female Ninja movie ever made. It's great as a B film and the action sequences are a lot of fun to watch. This movie is just so deliciously 80's. You'll never see another film like it. Check it out for some 80's retro fun.
Wow - this movie has everything!!! Ninja fights, horrible 80s soundtrack, bad acting, some good stunts and car crashes, some of the worst fights you've ever seen, aerobics wear from the 1980s, awful special effects and the most bumbling cops since the Keystone ones made silent comedies. If you've read some of the other comments - they are pretty dead on - Flashdance meets Exorcist meets Ninja movies. Lucinda Dickey (who made the Breakin' movies) looks like a low-rent Linda Hamilton and she is not very good in the fight scenes. But the movie does have one of the most amazing openings ever where a ninja attacks and kills dozens on a GOLF COURSE!!!! If you like cheesy bad movies, then this one is for you. Man oh man.
Ninja III: The Domination was one of those 80s movies that were always on TV, and were pure entertainment. Nobody knew why it was called "Ninja 3" and no one really cares about it. This 80s Cannon Films were great, no doubt about that. The plot: a near-immortal black ninja posses a beautiful babe to make her commit revenge against the cops that kill him. Thats basically the story of this gem.
The first action sequence of the movie is amazing, pure action, lots of ninja action and gunshots with cool and absolutely dated synthesizer movie (i love this music in this 80s films). No logic, lots of plot holes this is a no-brainier that its very enjoyable
7/10
The first action sequence of the movie is amazing, pure action, lots of ninja action and gunshots with cool and absolutely dated synthesizer movie (i love this music in this 80s films). No logic, lots of plot holes this is a no-brainier that its very enjoyable
7/10
This is one of the many Golan - Globus made movie. They had series of low budget movies that were pretty entertaining. This is one of it.
For almost no reason at all (At least it's not explained in the movie), a guy comes into a cave looking for a hidden sword. He finds it, and the sword transforms him into a super ninja. He then goes out to a golf course, and kills a couple (Again it's not explained who they were) and gets chased by the cops. Cops shoots him with guns and shot guns, but the ninja guy doesn't die (Again no reason). Then he escapes, and meets a girl (Lucinda Dicky). Then a strange thing happens: The spirit of the sword transfers to the girl, and now the girl becomes the super ninja. Then the possessed girl goes out on the revenge on people that shot the first ninja guy. Now enter Sho Kosugi. He's a ninja too, and seems to know all about what's going on, and shows up at key locations (Again for no reason explained). How would they save the girl from the ninja possession ?
This is movie that's purely made for entertainment. As you can see, the premise of the story suddenly happens, and then just keeps going without any explanation, but you don't care because of Lucinda's physical charm. She's the most beef cake actress I've ever seen. Other supporting actors are pretty good. Whatever the reason, the producers knew what they were doing, because this is an entertaining movie.
It's a good movie, and is recommended for viewing.
For almost no reason at all (At least it's not explained in the movie), a guy comes into a cave looking for a hidden sword. He finds it, and the sword transforms him into a super ninja. He then goes out to a golf course, and kills a couple (Again it's not explained who they were) and gets chased by the cops. Cops shoots him with guns and shot guns, but the ninja guy doesn't die (Again no reason). Then he escapes, and meets a girl (Lucinda Dicky). Then a strange thing happens: The spirit of the sword transfers to the girl, and now the girl becomes the super ninja. Then the possessed girl goes out on the revenge on people that shot the first ninja guy. Now enter Sho Kosugi. He's a ninja too, and seems to know all about what's going on, and shows up at key locations (Again for no reason explained). How would they save the girl from the ninja possession ?
This is movie that's purely made for entertainment. As you can see, the premise of the story suddenly happens, and then just keeps going without any explanation, but you don't care because of Lucinda's physical charm. She's the most beef cake actress I've ever seen. Other supporting actors are pretty good. Whatever the reason, the producers knew what they were doing, because this is an entertaining movie.
It's a good movie, and is recommended for viewing.
This is without a doubt the best of the Ninja Trilogy starring Sho Kosugi. As talented as he is, Lucinda Dickey manages to make it much more fun then the first two movies.
Cristie is a phoneline repair woman and aerobics teacher who gets possessed by an evil ninja assassin. She then procceeds to slice kill cops who shot her tormentor down.
This is Flashdance meets The Exorcist, it's a horror movie, a martil arts movie and an action movie all in one and is directed by Sam Firstenberg, the man who brought us Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo.
Cristie is a phoneline repair woman and aerobics teacher who gets possessed by an evil ninja assassin. She then procceeds to slice kill cops who shot her tormentor down.
This is Flashdance meets The Exorcist, it's a horror movie, a martil arts movie and an action movie all in one and is directed by Sam Firstenberg, the man who brought us Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo.
Did you know
- TriviaThis was the first film of a five picture deal for Lucinda Dickey who Menahem Golan wanted to make her a star very badly. The other films in the deal included Break Street 84 (1984), Breakin' 2 (1984), Breakin' 3, which was planned but fell apart, King Solomon's Mines and its sequel, Allan Quartermain And The Lost City of Gold. The latter three films didn't happen for her because she felt that both she and Cannon Films were totally tired of each other at that point.
- GoofsAfter the evil ninja comes out of the lake he is soaked from head to toe. In the next shot, he continues to fight police officers and is bone dry.
- Alternate versionsThe film was cut by 1 min 12 secs for its UK cinema release to remove all footage of metal throwing stars. All cuts were waived for the 2015 video release.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Best of the Worst: Ninja Movies (2014)
- SoundtracksBody Shop
Music and lyrics by David Powell (as Dave Powell)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,610,785
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,727,546
- Sep 16, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $7,611,652
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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