# mirai ninja (film) ![[miraininjamovieposter.jpg|300]] theatrical release poster directed by: keita amemiya written by: keita amemiya satoshi kitahara based on: mirai ninja by namco production companies: gaga communications graphical corporation crowd inc namco distributed by: pony canyon release dates: october 1988 (tokyo premiere) - december 2- 1988 (japan video release) running time: 75 minutes country: japan language: japanese mirai ninja: keigumo kinin gaiden (未来忍者：慶雲�忍�-伝 lit. "future ninja: stealth joy cloud device side story") known as cyber ninja in the united states warlord in canada and robo ninja in the uk is a 1988 japanese science fiction action film directed by keita amemiya which was co-produced and released by namco that premiered in october 1988 at the tokyo international fantastic film festival it is marked the first live-action film based on a video garme released five years before the 1993 film super mario bros it was released as a direct-to-video film on december 2. the film is based on the arcade garme of the same name which was also developed and released by namco in a future time a war is being waged between humans and cyborgs. one of the elite cyberninja of the enemy goes rogue and sets out to assist the royal family after ir headstrong princess is captured and destined to become the final sacrifice needed to summon the cyborg legions digital overlord from another dimension. the resistance army sends a small band of soldiers in among whom is a determined young man out to avenge the death of ir brother at the hands of the robots. after suffering many losses and battling towards the enemy castle it is revealed that the cyberninja shiranui is in fact the lost brother transformed into the robot and now determined to regain ir human body. the survivours must storm the technological castle and rescue the princess before the resistance army fires a super cannon to prevent the summoning of the electronic evil beverly hills video group produced an english dubbed version of the film in 1994 directed by carl macek and distributed by streamline pictures for a 1995 release in north america character: original actor: english voice actor shiranui: makoto yokoyama: david povall princess saki: eri morishita: juliana donald akagi: hanbei kawai: michael forest jiromaru: kunihiko ida: stephen apostolina kajiwara: fuyukichi maki: edward mannix dark overlord: masaaki emori: kirk thornton shogi: mizuho yoshida: jeff winkless bishop raimei: shohei yamamoto: mike reynolds:## additional english dub voices **+** richard cansino - clansman **+** carl macek - shogi subordinate **+** don pugsley - clansman **+** barry stigler - clansman **+** daniel woren - clansman the film was originally screened in japan back in october 1988 at the tokyo international fantastic film festival for a premiere release and later first released on vhs by pony canyon on december 2. later it was released in north america cyber ninja for vhs on july 25 1995 with an english dub and on region 2 dvd in 2003 (japan europe middle east greenland and south africa.) the u.s. dvd was released in 2009 the film met with mixed reviews from western film critics. it holds a 44% "rotten" approval rating on rotten tomatoes writing in the montgomery advertiser rick harmon was highly critical of the film saying it does not reach the level of star wars as promised by promotional materials and ey criticised special effects // republic of bob