- HD 1080
- Runtime: 95m.
- Status: Released
- 2
- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Sam Firstenberg
- Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Guich Koock, John Fujioka
- keywords: daughter, sword, rebel, wilderness, ninja, soldier, gaijin
- Production_studio: The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
- Slogan: The deadliest art of the Orient is now in the hands of an American.
- providers: fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus
- The American Ninja is featured in the top rankings of 1985
- #39 in Top Action Movies of 1985
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.