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Michael Dudikoff and Tadashi Yamashita in American Ninja (1985)

Quotes

American Ninja

  • 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.
  • Jackson: Have you ever heard of ninjutsu sir?
  • Colonel Hickock: What's that?
  • Jackson: The secret art of assassination.
  • Colonel Hickock: Yeah of course I have!
  • Jackson: Well according to witnesses testimony and evidence, this massacre was the work of ninjas.
  • 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]
  • Colonel Hickock: 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.
  • 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 possess great skills.
  • Joe: Don't push it.
  • Jackson: Good. Very good. I touched somethin'.
  • [last lines]
  • Patricia: Joe!
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • Ortega: You stay here!
  • 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!
  • Jackson: Watchu gonna do with that hose, huh? You gonna play with yourself?
  • Patricia: What do I look like, a jungle baby or somethin'?
  • Jackson: You don't need money. Hey, what'cha need? Glad to see you're still human. She's cute, isn't she?
  • Joe: Who?
  • Jackson: Whooo? Hey look, you may have kicked my ass. But you did not make me blind.
  • Joe: Jackson, she's the colonel's daughter.
  • Jackson: I know, but nobody's perfect. But she is cute, isn't she? Isn't she? Huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're jiggling. You're jiggling. I knew I've touched something again. Ha ha ha, yeah.
  • Jackson: [Jackson has just lent Joe his motorcycle, so that Joe can sneak off their Army base - where he's been wrongfully confined - to the local country club] Charley, I wanna talk with you about your future. You're gonna put on working fatigues, then come right back and help me cover for Joe. Any questions?
  • Pvt. Charley Madison: One: What's all this got to do with my future?
  • Jackson: Because, if you don't go along with all this, you ain't gonna *have* a future. Capisce?
  • [first lines]
  • Pvt. Charley Madison: Hey! I'm great at that game. Back home in California, I'm like deadly. Hold on, I'll teach you girls how to play.
  • First Soldier: Yeah. Yeah.
  • Pvt. Charley Madison: Hey, Buddy, come on. We need an extra guy to even up the sides. Hey, come on.

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