American Ninja

1985 95 min Action, Adventure

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.

budget $1,000,000 earnings $10,499,694 return 10.5x

director Sam Firstenberg

writers Paul De Mielche, Avi Kleinberger, Gideon Amir, James R. Silke