Maboroshi kurozukin - yami ni tobu kage

Oh gawwwwd what a nightmare! Premise is a pair of cops, who are also secretly 'ninja', are trying to get the goods on a crime boss, who is only ever mentioned by name and never seen and guards his person with an army of thugs and..you guessed it..ninja. Okay, lets start with the transformation sequence each ninja goes through, changing from their civilian guise to ninjas. This is accomplished by waving their hands in the air in whats meant to be, I assume, a mystical fashion. Theres a puff of smoke and voila, instant ninja, complete with brightly colored costume (the main characters is bright yellow, his partners, blue) and headband with a little ninja logo that has NIN on one side and JA on the other. Yes, they actually wear handbands that say 'Ninja', in case we're not sure. Then there usually ensues a martial arts duel thats 90% camera work and cheesy sound fx. The story is weak, the fights are _barely_ coreographed and drag on forever, the sound quality is terrible, the sets are anywhere they couldn't get thrown out of. There are also a few spontaneously introduced characters who have nothing to do with the plot per se, but provide a few more badass (*snicker*) 'martial artists' to pad out the listless fight scenes. And the acting is _sickly_. I give this steaming pile two thumbs...BURIED IN THE SAND!!! Don't see this. Do not seek it out, do not watch it on a dare, for gods sake don't pay money for it, just don't.

This movie is hilarious! My friends and I stumbled upon this movie and we had to rent it. We were not disapointed it is absolutely fantastic. Don't worry about the plot (its impossible to understand anyway) or the acting because this movie is all about the campy action scenes. If you have the opportunity to see this movie make sure you see it!

This movie was HORRID!!!! I purchased it out of the $3 bin at Wal*Mart because my friends and I were intrigued. We watched it and wanted to gouge out eyes out. The Sound effects were pathetic, the voice overs wouldn't hold up in Siberia and the "acting" was worse than if chimps were hired to scream into a garbage can. Who and why was the kid in the movie, and why should I care that his father was killed for not joining the union? WHY WERE THERE MORE FIGHT SCENES WITH THE DORKY KID AND THE MANISH BROAD???? Normally, movies end with a wrap-up and credits. This steaming pile of hobo feces just quit. I am writing this mere moments after it ended, and my friends and I are going to set fire to the tape in a remote field. Chris Kelly should be put on the rack for this tripe.

There is camp and there is Black Ninja. Black Ninja takes camp to a whole new level.

The movie stars Alvin, a man whose wife Donna (who looks as if she has Down's Syndrome) is murdered by a gang of ninja's. He naturally seeks revenge and flies to Hong Kong to find Rudolph, the man responsible for her death. Along the way we meet Gordon, who Alvin enlists to take on Rudolph and his partner Norman.

This movie also features a parallel storyline involving the assassination of the chairman at Aberdeen Harbor and that man's son seeking revenge. The stories are VERY loosely connected by Tiger, who serves Norman and is responsible for the chairman's death. This storyline features Edmond (the chairman's son), Vivian and Teddy. (The remarkable trio) Basically, all Edmond does is run around taking people's shirts off looking for a man with a phoenix tattoo as Teddy informed Edmond that the killer has one on his body.

The movie is filled with hilarious one liners that are unintentionally funny and REALLY BADLY choreographed action scenes.

On a side note, I would like to mention that this IMDb listing isn't correct. As you can see in the picture, the star of the movie is Chris Kelly, who is not mentioned in the IMDb listing. There are also a large number of Caucasian actors, but this listing only includes Asian actors. Also, it's impossible that this movie was produced in 1967 as the cars in the movie are from the 1980's, possibly 1990's. I would greatly appreciate having an accurate listing for this movie.