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This obscure ninja version of Star Wars and Robocop only came to me in Japanese with Italian subtitles. The fact that I don't speak either of these languages added to my feeling that the film was made on a completely different planet. It was produced by video game developer Namco, presumably to promote their eponymous video game. And the result does indeed look like a full-length video game commercial. The bland fight choreography is overshadowed by hallucinogenic visuals, eccentric costumes and “video game” effects. It's set in a world that looks like feudal Japan, only here they have hologram maps, walking and flying fortresses, laser guns whose beams turn into ninja stars on impact, and robotic ninjas running around with their arms outstretched as if to mimic an airplane. There are a lot of absurd, albeit imaginative, ideas, like something cut out of an arcade video game, that don't make the slightest sense. Fortunately, the film is aware that it is not supposed to be longer than 70 minutes.
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