When rival ninjas kill his wife, Shô Kosugi overrules his mother's talk and moves to Los Angeles to open a Japanese doll gallery. But Keith Vitali, who's bankrolling the operation is hiding drugs in the dolls to sell to the Mafia, who don't want to pay him. So they kidnap Kosugi's son (played by Kosugi's son), and the blonde lady. This means that Vitali, who is a ninja, and Kosugi separately go to invade the Mafia high rise (where no one notices a man dressed in black climbing up the side of a skyscraper; things have certainly changed since Harold Lloyd), and in the big ending, everyone is kicking and throwing shuriken from a seemingly infinite supply of ninjitsu weaponry, except for the mafiosi, who think that machine guns are the way to go.
It's actually a well put together movie, if you ignore some moving shot glitches by David Gurfinkel.
It's actually a well put together movie, if you ignore some moving shot glitches by David Gurfinkel.