Five Element Ninjas
“Stronger than the Dragon... More powerful than the Tiger... Call them the SUPER NINJAS!”
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Revenge becomes a spectacularly unfair obstacle course when ninja specialists organise themselves around the elements. Colour-coded ambushes and ingenious weapons keep this Shaw Brothers adventure inventing new problems. The violence is extreme, but the choreography is the main event.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 5/10
- Plot
- 8/10
- Effects
- 2/10
- Dialogue
- 5.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 9/10
“The ninja department has reorganised into five lethal teams.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 59
Synopsis and movie facts
A young martial artist vows to take revenge against the ninja who murdered his martial arts master and brothers. He finds a new teacher and faces, together with his new brothers, the Five Element Ninja challenge.
- Released
- 1982
- Directed by
- Chang Cheh
- Running time
- 108 min
- Original title
- 五遁忍術
Starring
- Ricky Cheng Tien-Chi as Xiao Tian Hao
- Lung Tien-hsiang as Lei Ben
- Lo Meng as Liang Zhi Sheng
- Michael Chan Wai-man as Kembuchi Mudou
- Chan Pui-Sai as Junko / Ah Shun
- Wong Lik as Li Ying Wu
- Chu Ko as Chen Jun
- Kwan Fung as Yuan Zeng
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
TMDB identity and credits retrieved on 2026-11-10: Five Element Ninjas (1982), directed by Chang Cheh. The importer rechecks identity, poster, synopsis, release date, runtime, genres and cast against live metadata.
- Review · badmovies.org
The reviewer calls the film exceptionally inventive and enjoyable while emphasising its surprising bloodiness and imaginative weapons. Full review text retained from earlier catalogue research and consulted again on 2026-11-10; no claim of a fresh page download.
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