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American Ninja (1985)
Directed by Sam Firstenberg
“The deadliest art of the Orient is now in the hands of an American.”
Adventure, Action · 1h 35m
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in the Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.
Cast
Michael Dudikoff
Pvt. Joe Armstrong
Steve James
Cpl. Curtis Jackson
Judie Aronson
Patricia Hickock
Guich Koock
Col. William T. Hickock
John Fujioka
Shinyuki
D
Don Stewart
Victor Ortega
John LaMotta
MSgt. Rinaldo
Tadashi Yamashita
Black Star Ninja
Phillip Brock
Pvt. Charley Madison
Tony Carreon
Older Colombian
Roi Vinzon
Younger Colombian
Richard Norton
MP
Crew
- Director
- Sam Firstenberg
- Screenplay
- Paul De Mielche, James R. Silke
- Director of Photography
- Hanania Baer
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Linn
- Editor
- Marcus Manton, Andy Horvitch, Peter Lee-Thompson, Marcel Mindlin, Daniel Wetherbee
- Producer
- Gideon Amir, Yoram Globus, Ken Metcalfe, Avi Kleinberger, Menahem Golan
Details
- Release date
- 1985-08-30
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Adventure, Action
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America, Netherlands
- Production
- The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
- Budget
- $1,000,000
- Box office
- $10,499,694