Firstenberg and Dudikoff would work a lot together after the first AMERICAN NINJA film as well. He also did the unforgettable BREAKIN 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO for Cannon (another trend spotting businesses venture). In fact, director Sam Firstenberg (who helmed both AMERICAN NINJA 1 & 2) has directed both REVENGE OF THE NINJA and NINJA III: THE DOMINATION before this.

Cannon Films was no stranger to spotting and cashing in on trends, so they made several ninja related films before Dudikoff entered the picture. He felt more lie a regular shy dude than most of his contemporaries, but he certainly had a solid amount of output. He was a more stoic hero than the others and his voice was not that of a tough guy. After you worked your way through the Chuck Norris and Van Damme films in the action section of your local video store - it was on to the Cannon Films movies and Dudikoff for more entertainment.

Though his notoriety is not quite on the same level as those three, he is still a talented physical actor and martial artist who helped bring a lot of memorable action films to the VHS obsessed youth of the world in the 1980s. He represents another heroic badass that can stand rightly in the same line with the likes of Chuck Norris, Jean Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal. Michael Dudikoff is a name that is mentioned with a great deal of affection and reverence by action genre fans of a certain age these days.

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