A Ninja Pays Half My Rent is a short comedy film by Steven Tsuchida, it was first released in 2003.
[1] When your roommate dies from an allergic reaction to fruit and the rent is due and you don't have the cash to cover it, there's no time to mess around picking a new roommate.
So it goes that our hero in this short comes to share his home with a ninja.
Then another ninja wants to be his roommate.
Conditions for disaster, fulfilled.