An American businessman abroad (Christopher Lambert, French accent and all) commits the faux pas, punishable by death, of glimpsing the unmasked face of Kinjo the Ninja, head of the Makato clan, and he finds himself in the crossfire (or under the crossed swords, rather) of a centuries-old feud. Allowing this Westerner to get in on the action (after three weeks of tutelage from a comic-relief drunkard) undermines the mystique of these Oriental martial artists. In the movie's best sequence, he stays modestly on the sidelines, while a gloomy samurai (Yoshio Harada, a powerful screen presence) and his archer wife chop down an army of Ninjas storming single-file through a bullet train. With John Lone, Joan Chen; written and directed by J. F. Lawton. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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