Ninja Assassin

[chaibill]

Finally Hollywood cast an Asian to leading man.
http://www.optimum.net/News/AP/Article?articleId=384687

[The Mothman]

___V___ posted the behind the scenes trailer on the trailers thread, but think this deserves a thread of its own.
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1198524/photo_02_hires.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186367/

I can't find too many details about it, but the main actors actual name is simply "Rain" which is bad ass. No last name or nothing, just rain.
anyone else excited? hopefully they keep it old school and stick with the name it has now.

[Abominus]

I'll watch since I'm a sucker for martial arts but I reserve judgement on a Korean pop star turned ninja and Johnny Tran from the Fast and the Furious.

We'll see.

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Who would have thought Korean pop superstar Rain is capable of carrying an action film?

At first, I had my doubts when I heard he was going to headline Wachowski’s produced Ninja Assassin but a stunt reel has turn up on Youtube that convinced me to reconsider my judgment of him as just another pretty boy.

The stunt reel showcases Rain in top physical shape and training swordplay choreography with the 87Eleven stunt team to prepare him for the fight scenes. I’m impressed on how well Rain is able to move swiftly under a complicated set of steps. This will definitely get the fangirls swooning hysterically.

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Synopsis :- Raizo is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them…and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge. In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow, Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi, to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive…and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.

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http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/100/1008220/ninja-assassin-20090727061150746.jpg

[Elvis_Christ]

What ever happened with the new Sho Kosugi flick?

[Ferox13]

I remember back in the 80s a fair few of the Hong Kong action stars were canton pop singers.

I think Aaron Kwok and Jacky Cheung were both singers first. I know there were alot more.

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What ever happened with the new Sho Kosugi flick?

This is the one.

Sho Kosugi plays Lord Ozunu.

[Ferox13]

Cool Sho Kosugi is back - what ever hapeened to his son, Kane.

[urgeok]

I remember back in the 80s a fair few of the Hong Kong action stars were canton pop singers.

I think Aaron Kwok and Jacky Cheung were both singers first. I know there were alot more.


almost every single one of them were singers ..

the actresses too ...

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[Ferox13]

I used to be a ninja beforre the pirate life took me so I'm looking forward to this one....

I hope Shô Kosugi's part is less dissapointing than Sonny Chiba's one in Kill Bill.

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OMG! That looks awesome!!!
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j202/twiztidklownztx/icame2.jpg

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Digital effects have become a mainstay of Hollywood action movies these days and director James McTeigue's (V for Vendetta) latest movie, Ninja Assassin, is no exception.

However, in a recent interview with Coming Soon, McTeigue said that many of the weapons were real and that the movie's lead, Korean pop star Rain, trained "for five or six months," and that he had "incredible discipline."

"Rain in the movie uses this blade and chain weapon, but when we're training him, it's with an actual martial arts weapon called the rope dart, so he trained with that so he knew how to swing it around, because then ultimately when you get into it, you need something for him to physically use. He'll use that, and the visual FX guys will put tracking markers on it, so that way, it gives the stunt guys something to react to and then we'll replace it later. But with swords and katanas and other things, sometimes we'll use bamboo painted silver for example, they're actually real sometimes."

Many critics have commented on how violent and bloody the movie is, but McTeigue said that he didn't have any problem with the MPAA ratings board.

"When we submitted the movie, we said, "Look, it's really stylized." In no way is this Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer or one of those movies that's so extreme it's meant to make you feel sick. This is like a game, it is like anime, it is like a comic book. I think they saw it as that, so henceforth, they gave me an R-rating and if you look at the ratings card, it goes "For stylized violence and blood." I think they got it."

Ninja Assassin opens November 25 everywhere.