Tongan Ninja
''Tongan Ninja'' is a 2002 kung-fu action comedy film directed by Jason Stutter and filmed in New Zealand. The film garnered notoriety at the time for co-starring and being co-written by Jemaine Clement, star of the HBO comedy ''Flight of the Conchords''. The movie is a parody of English-dubbed martial arts films, with a plot heavily based on ''Way of the Dragon''. It also features songs written by Jemaine Clement and Flight of the Conchords co-star Bret McKenzie. Plot A young child is stranded in Tonga when his plane crashes and his father is eaten by piranhas. There, he trains in a dojo until he earns the name Tongan Ninja. The Tongan Ninja is dispatched to the island nation of New Zealand in order to help the brother of his master with his floundering Chinese restaurant. But the mysterious Mister Big stands in the eatery's way as he sends numerous villains such as Knife Man, Gun Man, and Action Fighter to keep the restaurant closed and the employees in fear. The Tongan ...
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Jemaine Clement
Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (born 10 January 1974) is a New Zealand actor, comedian, musician and filmmaker. He has released several albums with Bret McKenzie as the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, and created a comedy series of the same name for both the BBC and HBO, for which he received six Primetime Emmy nominations. He has had featured parts in films such as Eagle vs Shark (2007), ''Men in Black 3'' (2012), ''People Places Things'' (2015), '' Humor Me'' (2017), '' The Festival'' (2018) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). He has also done voice-work for ''Despicable Me'' (2010), ''Rio'' (2011), ''Rio 2'' (2014), '' Moana'' (2016) and ''The Lego Batman Movie'' (2017). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with ''What We Do in the Shadows'', which he also co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in with Taika Waititi, and later adapted into a show for FX Television series of the same name. Early life Clement, quote=...says the actor, whose own middle names Atea a ...
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