Cyber Ninja (Japan 1988)

Rating: **
Alternate Titles: Renegade Robo Ninja & Princess Saki, Renegade Ninja
Director: Keita Amemiya

This pre-Zeiram effort by director Keita Amemiya is a futuristic sci-fi ninja tale that looks and feels like a non-campy version of the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" (or any other sentai show for that matter). Some pretty neat costumes, awesome sword fighting, interesting concepts, and a handful of nifty effects and visuals, but overall the film is a technical embarassment and looks too cheesy to take seriously. Also, the guy who plays Teppei in both of the "Zeiram" (1991) films is in the cast as a human resistance fighter.