American Ninja
1985/I
Patricia: You, my dear, are going to town, and you're buying me new shoes and a new skirt... Don't you touch my skirt!
Jackson: Listen to what I'm saying. With your skills, we could make some easy money. Joe: Jackson, I don't want to fight, I hate crowds, and I don't need money.
Colonel Hickock: Rinaldo, what do we know about him? Rinaldo: (Reading from a file) Birth name, unknown. Parents, unknown. Next of kin, unknown... Colonel Hickock: Give me that! (Grabs the papers) Workers found him in the jungle where they were building a road. Brought back to the States with total amnesia. Ah, there it is. I knew it. Sent to reform school at age 16 for almost killing a man. A few months ago got in trouble again. Judge gave him a choice; enlist or go to jail.
Ortega: This is Shinyuki. I found him in the jungle when I bought the estate, dressed in the uniform of a Japanese soldier, unaware for many years that the war was over. He never says a word.
Ortega: You stay here!
Shinyuki: These symbols will give your mind ultimate purpose. Gin, Retsu, Zai, Zen. Joe: Kobudera! Shinyuki: The Kobudera. Ninja magic. Ninjitsu-to, the ability to seem invisible to cause fear and paralisis in your enemies.
Shinyuki: You are ready, my son. I will be with you indeed and in my heart. Follow the Bushido. Joe: I will honor the code, father.
Shinyuki: The Black Star Ninja has betrayed the code. Joe: Then... he must die.
Ortega: American! You have thirty seconds to surrender or I kill your girlfriend! Patricia: Joe, don't do it! Ortega: (slapping her) Twenty seconds! Maybe you don't like her as much as she thinks you do! Five! Four! Joe: (Throws down his weapons) Now let her go! Ortega: Letting her go wasn't part of the deal!
Black Star ninja: Who is he? Colonel Hickock: He's a new recruit, he just got here yesterday. I don't even know his name! Black Star ninja: He posses great skills!