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Well, here we go again! This is yet another Hong Kong martial arts effort which is what it is, and in this case that means a movie with a plot which seemed to make no sense whatsoever! Seriously, this is liable to induce mild nausea on you if you try to follow it. It seems to be about a woman who seeks vengeance on three men who raped her but then there is a diamond smuggling thing going on and then there are also some ninjas kicking about who seem like they are from a different film entirely. You know the latter are ninjas as they wear bandanas with 'ninja' written on them - isn't that always the way? They get involved in some fight scenes so over the top they are worth a chuckle or two and they seem to be able to disappear at will (somehow). The soundtrack is Hong Kong style all the way (i.e. Absolutely no recognition of anything poncey like western copyright laws), to this end we have a score compromising of choice cuts from Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream (oh what production values this film must have). Needless to say, its all severe idiocy, although if you have a tolerance for this kind of thing you may enjoy this demented chopsocky exercise in biscuit-taking nonsense. Venture at your own peril I would say though.

Ninja Champion is a collage of martial arts movies glued together by a ridiculous plot. But that's what Godfrey Ho is known for. In the 80's Mr. Ho discovered you could take a bunch of cheap crappy movies and edit their fight scenes together to make a new movie!

The plot for Ninja Champion is as follows; three men rape a woman. The men turn out to be part of a diamond smuggling ring. The woman's ex-husband is an Interpol agent who wants to stop the diamond smugglers and help his ex-wife kill the three men that raped her.

Throughout this movie there are random scenes of nameless guys beating each other up for no reason. Nothing is ever explained. In one fight scene, one of the men changes from a guy with no shirt into a ninja dressed in a red suit. This is never explained, but then again the reason these people were fighting in the first place was never explained either.

If this movie were intentionally made as a comedy it would be the work of a genius. However, I don't think that was the case.

Anyone who has seen some of Godfrey Ho's cut-and-paste movies knows that any genre of film was fair game for these. He added ninjas to action movies, horror flicks, rom-coms, police thrillers and just about anything else he could get his hands on. Here, the original movie is a rape-revenge flick and the result is one of the sleaziest Godfrey Ho films I've ever seen. It is pure grindhouse material!

At the beginning of the film, three man attack a couple camping in the woods, raping the woman. The woman's husband, who is an Interpol agent, leaves her as she is now "tainted". As time passes, the woman (named Nancy) decides to seek revenge on the three rapists by tracking them down, seducing them and then killing them one-by-one.

By pure coincidence, the rapists happen to be members of a criminal gang responsible for counterfeiting money. As a result, the ex-husband is also chasing them down as part of his job. Nancy declares that she going to kill him after she takes care of the rapists as punishment for divorcing her. Despite this, he still wants to help her as he believes he can atone for his mistake by doing so.

Added into this already insane story is the fact that the leader of the gang is a secret ninja, and so are some Interpol agents, and throughout the film both groups are training so they can fight each other. This is rather disappointing for Godfrey Ho standards as most of the time, there is a lot of ninja action, but here they mostly just stand around saying there's no need for them to do anything because Nancy is taking care of the killing for them. This means there is even less connection between the two stories than in most of these movies.

The ending of the Nancy story is absolutely nonsensical and defies all logic. You will not see it coming because there is absolutely no foreshadowing of the major twist that occurs - seriously, watch it for yourself and be dumbfounded. The ending of the ninja story, on the other hand, is as standard as can be, as the good ninja fights the bad ninja one-on-one, with predictable results.

Objectively, the film is pretty bad and probably doesn't even deserve 5/10, but as a strange grindhouse-style viewing experience it's unbeatable.

This is one of the very best of the many cut and splice ninja outings as cobbled together by those legendary cinematic rascals Joseph Lai and Godfrey Ho.

What can I say? This is absolutely mental!!!!!!!!! It truly has to be one of the most unfathomable, illogical and downright demented films I have ever had the pleasure (and confusion) to sit through!

The plot in this is without doubt the most bizarrely complex and muddled I have ever witnessed in any film!

The ending especially, when Maurice the evil ninja explains 'the beauty' of his plan (complete with a maniacal laugh!) is completely and utterly baffling and I frankly defy anyone to follow it without rewinding the scene a good few times in order to take it in!

Needless to say, Donald, our ninja hero played by always welcome genre regular Bruce Baron, is mightily peeved upon learning the villain's evil scheme (and no doubt also by his bewildering recounting of it!) and challenges him to a climatic battle which just has to be seen to be believed!

This film is about as crazy as they come and is all the more fun for it although be warned, it may well induce severe brain damage!!!