The Mysterious Ninjas became very popular in the movies during the 80's, especially starting with the movie
Enter the Ninja with
Franco Nero and
Shô Kosugi This started the craze for ninja with
Shô Kosugi leading the pack with several movies and a TV series
"The Master" with the ninja theme.
Others like
Michael Dudikoff with the
American Ninja series had some success. After a while the craze died out.
Now it seems that they are back, first with Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow from GI JOE : The Rise of Cobra
and now the aptly named
NINJA movie which seems to be the revamped American Ninja !
Facing off with this is
NINJA ASSASSIN