'Mafia vs. Ninja' aka Hong men jue e zhe is a 1984

1984 in film

-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

 martial arts film

Martial arts film

Martial arts film is a film genre. A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous fights between characters, usually as the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development. Martial arts are frequently...

 directed by Robert Tai. Made in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

, it stars Alexander Lou

Alexander Lou

Alexander Lo is a former taekwondo champion from Taiwan, who has great physical skills. Alexander worked on many films during the 1980s about Ninjas, such as The Ninja Hunter, The Super Ninja, Ninja vs. Shaolin, Ninja Condors 13, and Mafia vs. Ninja. He also worked on Shaolin films such as Shaolin...

 in alongside Eugene Thomas

Eugene Thomas

Eugene Thomas is an African-American martial artist and B-movie actor, who went to Taiwan and Hong Kong in the early 1980s, where he made about a dozen movies, mostly about Ninjas, like Mafia vs. Ninja or USA Ninja, where he frequently collaborated with the tae kwon do specialist Alexander Lou...

.

Plot

Two sewage workers, Jack Do (Alexander Lou

Alexander Lou

Alexander Lo is a former taekwondo champion from Taiwan, who has great physical skills. Alexander worked on many films during the 1980s about Ninjas, such as The Ninja Hunter, The Super Ninja, Ninja vs. Shaolin, Ninja Condors 13, and Mafia vs. Ninja. He also worked on Shaolin films such as Shaolin...

) and Charlie Wu (Charlema Hsu) get mixed up in heavy business when their mobster boss gets assassinated by another mobster who wants to control Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

 and overflow the streets with opium

Opium

Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy . Opium contains up to 12% morphine, an alkaloid, which is frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade. The latex also includes codeine and non-narcotic alkaloids such as papaverine, thebaine and noscapine...

, along with the usual mafia-related affairs like gambling

Gambling

Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods...

 and prostitution

Prostitution

Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...

. He is aided by a team of four professional assassins, with the most notable two being foreigners. one a black American fighter called Mr. Jones (Eugene Thomas

Eugene Thomas

Eugene Thomas is an African-American martial artist and B-movie actor, who went to Taiwan and Hong Kong in the early 1980s, where he made about a dozen movies, mostly about Ninjas, like Mafia vs. Ninja or USA Ninja, where he frequently collaborated with the tae kwon do specialist Alexander Lou...

), and the other an Italian knife-expert called Mimo (Silvio Azzolini). The other two are a Samurai swordsman and a ninjitsu weapon master.

Trivia

• The film utilizes several poorly made special effects, where wiring and other equipment is clearly visible, which along with the generally poor acting and editing leaves quite a comedic result.
• Dave Kelly, aka "Shmorky" of Something Awful
  Something Awful
  Something Awful, often abbreviated to SA, is a comedy website housing a variety of content, including blog entries, forums, feature articles, digitally edited pictures, and humorous media reviews. It was created by Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka in 1999 as a largely personal website, but as it grew, so...
  
  fame exploited the also comical over the top fighting sound effects and poor English overdubbing of the film for use in one of his Flash Tubs, "Ninja Vs. Peasant".