Not to be confused with the Godfrey Ho 1985 NINJA TERMINATOR this one here is directed by someone named Lo Mar and is a pretty good example of a completely forgettable and disposable kung-fu flick. I know that movies like this weren't really intended to be seen outside of some shitty theater in 1970's Hong Kong or someplace like 42nd Street but this one survives thanks to cheapo dollar DVD's and that sort of thing.
It all starts out with various people kung-fuing each other over what sounds like an instrumental version of Simon & Garfunkel's El Condor Pasa which I don't think is originally a Chinese song but I could be wrong. This song gets played over and over again until you're sick of it. After this opening we get a pretty basic revenge plot about this guy who was screwed over by some mobsters/gangsters that he used to work for and sent to prison for a while also his girlfriend left him for one of the bad guys. The head baddie has a really sweet John Waters mustache so you can't really blame her too much. More weird music shows up including lots of funky disco soul tunes played in bar scenes which seem a bit out of place and finally a bunch of pretty boring fight scenes round it all out. The only ninja that I saw was on the box cover of the VHS this came in so don't expect them if you ever get stuck watching this which you most likely won't unless you're into really cheap crap movies on DVD or VHS. The only information I could find online says this may have been originally titled BLACK LIST which would make a little more sense. Other aliases may or may not include NINJA EXTERMINATOR, NINJA BLACK LIST and KUNG FU BLACKLIST.
This other NINJA TERMINATOR looks way better! Gotta check it out sometime:
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