Reviewed by: MrBooth Date: 10/21/2001 Summary: Very cheesy but entertaining LIFE OF NINJA: This is one of Tai Seng's re-releases of an Ocean Shores VHS, with the awful picture quality and dubbing that implies. The film itself is plenty cheesy - a series of murders take place in modern day Hong Kong with Ninja signs left at the scene. A Ninja warning reveals that a nasty business man is their target, so the cop on the case gets a Ninja expert who teaches martial arts involved to help him. All good fun :-) The film contains some really great action sequences, including a modicum of cheaply done Ninja trickery. Yasuki Kurata has a good role as the chief Ninja. Not sure who the Ninja Expert hero is, but he fights well. Recommended for those who can handle cheesy old school pan & scan & dubbed :-)

Reviewed by: STSH Date: 09/15/2001 Summary: Cheesy fun Elsa Yeung and Chen Kuan Tai made a bunch of movies together around this time, and they generally featured Kurata-san as well. This one is pretty typical of the formula. Lots of primary colours, smouldering looks, cheap soap opera hysterics and plot, lots of guys in full-body suits twirling in the air and pretending to be ninjas. ChenKT is impressive in the climactic duel with Yasuaki. But I still can't understand the plot relevance of the three bikini-clad women at the beginning engaging in green mud-wreslting. The copy I rented was under the Ninja Theatre label and was rated R (here in Aus, that means restricted to age 18 and over). This is a complete over-reaction. The violence is not particularly shocking, esp for this genre. Only one young woman appears topless and discreetly nude, and there is one very tame sex scene. Okay no-brain actioner. Reviewer Score: 5