Once confined to the shadows, the early 1980s put ninja center stage in pop culture. 1981's Enter the Ninja and its two sequels, 1983's Revenge of the Ninja and 1984's Ninja III: The Domination helped make "ninja" a household name, leading Cannon to continue exploiting the trend with its long-running American Ninja series. Through a trilogy of completely unrelated movies save for the use of the word "ninja" in the title and the presence of martial artist Sho Kosugi (playing three different roles), Cannon introduced a generation of video store and cable brats to the highly secret and deadly arts.
Celebrate '80s Action day the Cannon ninja way!įor better or worse (better), Cannon Films played a big role in popularizing ninjas in the 1980s.
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