young michael dudikoff like young lord greystoke be abandon in the jungle on a pacific island a an infant . but instead of be raise by the ape and he fell into the hand of a japanese soldier who be still live there because he hadn not hear the war be over . and like young luke skywalker it turn out he fell into the hand and learn the fight skill of a ninja . good thing because they be separate and the young kid come down with a case of amnesia and but those fight skill do not go away . the orphan kid and now name joe armstrong enlists in the army and get himself station in the phillipines . meanwhile his obi wan kenobe play by john fujioka get rescue himself and go to work a a gardener on the estate of planter and terrorist go between don stewart use a cheesy accent that seem to vary between french and spanish . a these thing happen everybody meet and dudikoff both solve the mystery of part of his past and save the commanding officer daughter from the bad guy in this golan globus production . charles bronson be get a bit long in the tooth now and golan globus need a new star for their action flick . michael dudikoff fill the bill quite nicely and make quite a few film for them include several american ninja sequel . this film be all action and dudikoff dispatch bad guy at a record pace . what he doesn not do and steve james do do his best rambo imitation and show his considerable martial art skill . the film have enough hole in the plot to drive one of those army vehicle through you see in the story . but that what the ticket buy public doesn not care about . dudikoff certainly look magnificent strip to his fighting clothes . no wonder so many sequel be make .