


New York Ninja
2021 / 93 min / USA / English / Action, Martial Arts, Exploitation, Comedy, Thriller
John is just an average man working as a sound technician for a New York City news station, until one day his pregnant wife is brutally murdered while witnessing the kidnapping of a young woman in broad daylight. Turning to the police for help, John soon learns that the city is overrun with crime and the police are too busy to help. Dressing as a white ninja, John takes to the streets as a sword wielding vigilante hell bent on cleaning up the streets of the city he once loved by ridding it of muggers, pickpockets, rapists, and gang members. However, in John’s quest for justice, he soon finds himself the target of every criminal in the city, including a mysterious villain known only as the Plutonium Killer. Will John survive to become the hero that New York City so desperately needs?
Director: John Liu and Kurtis Spieler
Starring (voice actors): Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Michael Berryman, Cynthia Rothrock, Linnea Quigley, Vince Murdocco, Matt Mitler, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ginger Lynn Allen
Formats: 35mm, DCP
Festivals/Awards: World premiere at Beyond Fest 2021, UK premiere at Abertoir International Film Festival of Wales 2021, Closing Night Film at Fantastic Film Festival Australia 2021, Anomaly Film Fest 2021
Booking Contact: Theresa Mercado (theresa@vinsyn.com)
Press Coverage / Critical Reviews
"Losing any movie to time’s ravages is a loss to cinema as a whole, and, put simply, you are not a preservationist if you don’t care whether grungy trashterpieces are protected from rot or not. Vinegar Syndrome cares." - Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
"New York Ninja is the kind of gem that demands viewing with a crowd. This is the reason we go to the cinema in the first place, to be a part of something special, to commune with our film-loving families and share not just a movie, but an experience. New York Ninja is one hell of an experience, an ecstatic fever-dream of a film that you will want to shout about from the rooftops. This thing is rad." - J. Hurtado, Screen Anarchy
