American Ninja (1985)
1985 film directed by Sam Firstenberg
- Released
- 1985
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Martial arts film, Ninja film
- Director
- Sam Firstenberg
- Producer
- Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan
- Music
- Michael Linn
- Cinematography
- Hanania Baer
- Starring
- Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Richard Norton, Judie Aronson
- Running time
- 95 minutes
- Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Distributor
- The Cannon Group, Netflix
- Set in
- Philippines
American Ninja is a 1985 American martial arts action film produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus's Cannon Films. Directed by Sam Firstenberg, who specialized in this genre in the 1980s, the film stars Michael Dudikoff in the title role and is the first installment in the American Ninja franchise, followed by American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987). It had a generally negative reception from critics, and it was a financial success at the box office and on home video.
More films directed by Sam Firstenberg
- Revenge of the Ninja 1983
- Ninja III: The Domination 1984
- Avenging Force 1986
- American Ninja 2: The Confrontation 1987
- American Samurai 1992
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Facts from Wikidata Q464294 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.