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Zombie vs. Ninja

  • 1989
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
3.0/10
634
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Zombie vs. Ninja (1989)
SuperheroActionAdventureDramaThriller

Ethan, a young man, is beaten while his father is killed by a group of thieves. With the help of an undertaker, Ethan trains in kung fu by fighting the dead. Meanwhile, an American Ninja, Dr... Read allEthan, a young man, is beaten while his father is killed by a group of thieves. With the help of an undertaker, Ethan trains in kung fu by fighting the dead. Meanwhile, an American Ninja, Dragon, must fend off against the thieves and their ninja henchmen. It is soon that Dragon a... Read allEthan, a young man, is beaten while his father is killed by a group of thieves. With the help of an undertaker, Ethan trains in kung fu by fighting the dead. Meanwhile, an American Ninja, Dragon, must fend off against the thieves and their ninja henchmen. It is soon that Dragon and Ethan team up to defeat the thieves and the ninjas.

  • Director
    • Godfrey Ho
  • Writers
    • AAV Creative Unit
    • Godfrey Ho
  • Stars
    • Pierre Kirby
    • Edowan Bersmea
    • Dewey Bosworth
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.0/10
    634
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Godfrey Ho
    • Writers
      • AAV Creative Unit
      • Godfrey Ho
    • Stars
      • Pierre Kirby
      • Edowan Bersmea
      • Dewey Bosworth
    • 15User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
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    Pierre Kirby
    • Duncan
    Edowan Bersmea
    • Villain Ninja
    Dewey Bosworth
    • Mason
    Thomas Hartham
    Patrick Frzebar
    • Ira
    • (as Patrick Frbezar)
    Renato Sala
    Mason Chang
    David Kim
    Mark Wang
    Paul Lee
    Martin Chan
    Dick Lin
    John Lee
    Cheol Jang
    • Restaurateur
    • (archive footage)
    Hyo-Seon Jang
    • Magistrate
    • (archive footage)
    Jin-Hwa Jeong
    Jin-Hwa Jeong
    • Ethan Chang
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Elton Chong)
    Kook Jeong-hwan
    • Lilly's father
    • (archive footage)
    Noo-lee Jin
    • Madam Lin
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Nu-ri Jin)
    • Director
      • Godfrey Ho
    • Writers
      • AAV Creative Unit
      • Godfrey Ho
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    User reviews15

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    1El Ambre

    Time Warp

    Zombie vs Ninja is such a powerful piece of cinema that it somehow created a time warp around my living room and made it seem as if the movie took 4 hours to watch. The acting, editing, garbage bag ninja costumes were all terrible. The movie stunk to high heaven, and caused me to regrettably lose an hour and a half of my life. I'll never regain that time back and I am worse off as a human being for viewing the movie.
    10benhume1972

    Magnificent..

    One of the greatest old skool kung fu movies ..

    Unfortunately theres a silly 1980s american trash ninja movie melted into the original kung fu film ..

    Wish i knew what the original kung fu movie is .. Its priceless .. Ten out of ten
    1beetree

    Horrible . . .

    A friend of mine and I went on a mission to find the worse movie of all time. After we watched this movie, we did not even bother to put in the other movies we rented.

    A plot summary, character break down, or comments on the directing and acting would be useless. Only see this movie if to want to see something that is truly bad.

    Also, do not make a mistake by thinking that this movie is bad in the way of the classic bad movies like, "Plan 9 From Outer Space". . . Zombie vs Ninja is just plain cut you eyes out, tear off your ears, smash your VCR, horrible. I am glad that this movie is not available to corrupt the DVD market.
    3Zeegrade

    Zombie trainer vs. the other movie

    Zombie Vs. Ninja ranks up there with "I Eat your Skin" as far as misleading movie titles are concerned. At no point whatsoever is there any combat between said opponents. As a matter of fact both the Zombies and the Ninjas appear to be in two separate movies pasted together into one Godfrey Ho clusterf......film.

    The bulk of the movie concerns a man named Ethan who is beaten up during a robbery of family gold which ultimately leads to the death of his father. The thieves work for the typical kung-fu badguy here named Titus. After mistakenly thought for dead an undertaker/kung fu master (I know! Who would of thought!) accepts Ethan as his apprentice. The undertaker, called simply Master T, I think, employs an unusual style of training as he can summon zombies in order to sharpen his kung-fu skills. The story follows the standard kung-fu checklist as eventually Ethan becomes adept enough to fight his father's killers. Where the Ninjas fit in is another story.

    Ethan's storyline seems to come from the movie called "Gravedigger". The Ninjas are filmed separately from the main movie and come in the form of a bunch of Caucasian men with very Asian sounding names like Duncan, Bob, Ian and Bert. Leading the way is Godfrey Ho weapon of choice Pierre Kirby as the Dragon. It is beyond asinine to watch Kirby pretend to talk to Ethan and Master T when the backgrounds behind him don't even begin to match. The sheer goofiness of the Ninja outfits complete with "NINJA" headbands and gaudy outfits make you feel sorry for these guys rather than be in awe of them. Nothing screams badass ninja like yellow undergarments. Watching all of these white guys prance around a forest preserve role playing ninja vs. ninja made me think I was watching a corporate getaway to promote "team players". It's just beyond bizarre to watch.
    kolchak25

    Oh...my....god....

    I picked up a copy of this movie as I love zombie movies and ninja movies. With a title like Zombie vs Ninja, naturally I expected to see combat between zombies and ninjas. I expected this even more so after reading the description on the box which made a statement about the doors of hell being open unleashing a "zombie horde." Wow!

    Imagine my horror to discover that this film is actually a composite of 1)a film about an undertaker, who happens to be able to teach his young apprentice kung fu skills, and 2)scenes that appear to have been shot for the only purpose of being inserted into this film to incorporate "ninjas" into the storyline.

    The actors in the zombie story and the ninja story never appear on screen together. However, an attempt is made to make us believe they are in the same story as closeups of the actors are intercut to make it appear as if they are talking to each other.

    The "zombie horde" is certainly an overstatement as we never see more than three or four zombies at once. The master keeps calling them up to train the young apprentice in kung fu skills, surely a questionable method of training at best.

    The "ninjas" are probably the most hilarious thing I have ever seen. They are caucasians who wear shiny, brightly colored ninja outfits, and have names like Bert, Bob, and Ira. Uhhhh.... not exactly what you expect froma ninja movie. Their costumes appear to be made of plastic and are white, yellow, and blue, which really should make them quite visible in the forest.

    The funniest thing about the ninja characters is that they wear headbands that say "ninja" or "nin ja" with japanese writing in between the two syllables. What sort of ninja - arguably the most deadly invisible assassins - wear headbands that announce who they are?! I believe they were labeled as otherwise no one watching the film would ever know they were supposed to be ninjas as their outfits do not look anything like any other ninja costume I've seen in any movie.

    Also, there are two ninja forces in the film, but it is not readily apparent. I kept wondering why they were fighting and killing their own friends, until the two ninja leaders fought at which point I realized that up until then I had thought they were the same guy. I believe that the two styles of ninja headbands - "ninja" and "nin ja" were used to differentiate the two bands of ninjas.

    While this has to be seen to be appreciated, the movie is really bad, but not bad enough to be enjoyable. Watch at your own risk. If you are easily confused, I advise you to stay away.

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      This title is also known as Super Master vs the Evil Dead
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      Edited from Sohwaseong janguisa (1983)

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    • Release date
      • 1989 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • Hong Kong
    • Languages
      • Cantonese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Gravedigger
    • Production company
      • IFD Films and Arts
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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