Cobra Against Ninja (1987)

A purple ninja named Cobra (Stuart Smith) is making big bets on fight club ninja battles involving pink and white ninja Gordon (Richard Harrison, who told Nanarland that he thought he was making one movie for director Godfrey Ho and “I have no idea how many films they made from my last filming, but some say as many as ten. I put a lot of trust in friendship, so it hurt more than just professionally.” He also claimed that this experience made him stop making movies.), who is training some ninjas named David, Kirk, Benny and Chester. Chester is the one who ends up mixed up in organized crime with his mother killed and his siter kidnapped. There is also talk of a ninja challenge card.

With Joseph Lai credited as director — Ho’s all over this — and the AAV Creative Unit, Stephen So and Ho credited as writing the script, this is another remix from multiple sources, in this case being footage from 1978s Kaa maa jaak meuang na-kon.

There’s also a scene where a girl named Rose is belittled because she never finished school and all she knows how to do is cook, how stupid cooking is and how stupid she is for continuing to cook.

I want to know just how secret these ninjas are, because Cobra just goes to a betting office — an OTNB (Off Track Ninja Betting)? — to place wagers on battles between pajama wearing karate fighters. Then again, this is a movie that has a ninja named White Dolphin wearing all black and a plot that wishes it was just confusing but is so many steps beyond simply being incomprehensible, so I don’t know why I ask these things.

The Ninja Commandments have been broken. That’s what I really need to worry about.

As always, the music in this movie is jarring. This time, I was able to watch “Main Attraction” by Italian-American post-disco recording artists B. B. & Q. Band, “Johnson’s Aeroplane” by INXS and “Set Controls for the Heart of the Sun” by Pink Floyd.

You can watch thion Tubi.