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Ninja films might not excite as much interest as they once did two or so decades ago. The ninja character emerged on the shadows of karate movies, whose story lines included fighting endlessly immediately the film starts.
And while karate film oteros wore all-white outfights with black Ngoma shoes and fought mostly in the open, the ninja was a more sophisticated character. His invisibility was such that he climbed into highly secured buildings without being detected.
He wore a pajama-like black body suit with a covered face with just enough space for the eyes to peek out. A sword was an integral weapon of a ninja as was his Shuriken blades and Tetsubishi spikes. His ninjutsu fighting technique combined combat and guerrilla tactics. While karate film heroes like Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Fu Sheng, Kata Wan, Chi Kwan Chu and villains like Ti Lung were Chinese, the ninja was Japanese.
Indeed, ninja films took the world and Kenya by storm after the success of the Samurai series in the 1960s America. Ninja films were made popular by Sho Kosugi, starring in films like Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III and 36 Ninja Kids, that spread ninja mania to film buffs in the 1980s and 1990s.
The ninja otero also used smoke bombs and other mythical weapons like the sickle and chain.
