The Shinobi Ninja

Tadashi Yamashita stars in this frankly interminable tale of an age old feud between the Iga Ryu and Koga Ryu ninja clans.

Poor martial arts choreography aplenty, some simply atrocious voice over work, a script that has ostensibly been written by a preschooler and a boring story to boot all aggregate to make this film pretty much unwatchable. I really did struggle to keep viewing until the end of this and believe me, I've seen some really crappy movies in my time!

I would have awarded the film a one star rating save for the fact that to be equitable, the proceedings do admittedly pick up a notch or two towards the end with some much better action/martial arts sequences that are backed by some super cool and groovy seventies music!

Still, even having said this, I really can't recommend this movie, unless of course that is, you're into a spot of cinematic masochism.