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Released
1981 · FILM

Enter the Ninja

A skilled ninja warrior travels to the Philippines to protect his friend from a ruthless oil tycoon—and the deadly ninja he’s hired to silence him.

Hired assassins ...human killing machines!

Directed by
Runtime
100 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

A newly trained ninja warrior journeys to the Philippines, where he must defend his former war comrade.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mark GoldblattShot by David GurfinkelScored by W Michael Lewis

Box Office

1981 · Box office

Produced on a $1.5M budget

Production budget

$1.5M

Also known as

  • Die Rache des Ninjade
  • Ninja, die Killer-Maschinede
  • La justicia del Ninjaes
  • L'Implacable Ninjafr
  • L'invincibile ninjait

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