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Plot summary
Samuel, Jeffrey and Michael Douglas spend every summer at their grandfather's cabin, where Mori Tanaka trains them in ninjutsu. As the summer ends he gives each boy a ninja name: Rocky, Colt and Tum-Tum. Their father, Sam, is an FBI agent whose sting operation against arms dealer Hugo Snyder fails when Snyder escapes by helicopter. Snyder, once Mori's business partner, visits the cabin, where his ninjas test Mori and are beaten with the boys' help; he demands that Mori persuade Sam to call off the pursuit and threatens the family. He and his associate Nigel Brown then plan to kidnap the brothers as leverage against Sam, and Brown recruits his nephew Fester, a surfer, along with Hammer and Marcus, for the job.
Cast
- Chad Poweras Tum Tum
- Race Nelsonas Marcus
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 3 Ninjas (1992)
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- South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok, who developed the story under the anglicized name Simon Sheen, had escaped North Korea and spent three years under CIA protection before moving to Los Angeles with his wife Choi Eun-hee in 1989.
- 3 Ninjas grossed $29,000,301 domestically over a six-week run on a budget of just $2.5 million, which made it the most profitable film of that year in terms of cost-to-gross ratio.
- Over 100 children from martial arts competitions auditioned for the three lead brothers before Michael Treanor, Max Elliott Slade and Chad Power were cast, and along with Victor Wong they then trained for weeks in Tai chi and weapons work.
- Director Shin Sang-ok came up with the idea for 3 Ninjas after watching Home Alone over and over, wanting to make something similar that also brought in martial arts.
- Walt Disney Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film for $2 million and retitled it from its original name, 3 Ninja Kids, to 3 Ninjas.
