Main Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Larry Poindexter, Gary Conway, Jeff Weston
Release Year: 1987
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
Plot
Infinitely superior to the original American Ninja, American Ninja 2: The Confrontation spotlights Michael Dudikoff and Steve James as a pair of combustible U.S. Army Rangers. Dudikoff and James are ordered to find out why so many Marine guards have been disappearing from their posts at the US Embassy in a mythical Carribean country. Turns out that villain Gary Conway has been kidnapping the Marines and forcing an abducted engineer to reprogram the captive Leathernecks so that they'll join Conway's army of zombielike assassins. Naturally, the scientist has a beautiful daughter (Michelle Botes) whom Conway uses as leverage. Battling not only Conway's minions but the corrupt local authorities, martial arts experts Dudikoff and James effectively lay waste to the villain's previously impenetrable stronghold. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Michelle Botes - Alicia Sanborn; Mike Stone - Tojo Ken; Len Sparrowhawk - Pat McCarthy; Jonathan Pienaar - Taylor; Jamie Bartlett - Sinclair; John Fujioka - Shinyuki; Jack Weston; Dennis Folbigge - Sir Cloudsly Smith; Melvin Jones - Chuck
Credit
Robert Jenkinson - Art Director, Mati Raz - Associate Producer, Audrey M. Bansmer - Costume Designer, Richard Green - First Assistant Director, Sam Firstenberg - Director, B.J. Davis - Second Unit Director, Michael J. Duthie - Editor, Avi Lerner - Executive Producer, Mike Stone - Fights Choreographer, George S. Clinton - Composer (Music Score), Holger Gross - Production Designer, Gideon Porath - Cinematographer, Yoram Globus - Producer, Menahem Golan - Producer, B.J. Davis - Stunts, Gary Conway - Screen Story, Gideon Amir - Screenwriter, James Booth - Screenwriter, Gary Conway - Screenwriter, Rod Stewart - Second Unit Director Of Photography
Now promoted to Army Rangers, Joe Armstrong and Curtis Jackson are sent to aid the Marine Corps investigate the disappearance of many of its soldiers. Upon arriving, they are not met with open arms by the Marines. While being given a tour, Armstrong and Jackson are set up by a Marine mole sent by a crime lord named "The Lion", who is experimenting on the kidnapped Marines for his super soldier project. Ninjas appear and attack both Joe and Jackson, but escape. Upon their report, their claims are discarded. Joe uncovers the mole Marine named Taylor who is killed by a ninja before revealing anything to Joe. Even more suspicious, he enlists the help of Alicia, a daughter of a kidnapped scientist working for "The Lion", and Toto, a freelance boy employed by the Marines as a tour guide, Joe manages to get into stronghold of "The Lion" and attempts to rescue the kidnapped Marines.
