By Malice Intended
This fall, ninjas will officially become cool again.
For those of us who grew up on the ninja movies of the 1980’s (particularly those produced by the team of Yoram Golan and Menahem Globus), the return of the shadow warrior to pop culture prominence has been a long time coming. Finally, the ninja will take center stage in a (relatively) big-budget Hollywood production.
Ninja Assassin is produced by Joel Silver and The Wachowski Brothers (Bound, The Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer) and directed by James Mcteigue (V for Vendetta). It stars South Korean pop star Rain. Rain plays the hero, Raizo. As a child, Raizo was kidnapped by a ninja clan and raised to be a deadly assassin. He remains loyal to the clan until they murder his friend, which sends him into hiding. Raizo later reemerges with bloody, ninja-style revenge on his mind.
The story is of course typical of martial arts fair and the trailer (which debuted today at Comic-Con) makes no attempt to hide that fact. It offers tons of rain soaked visuals, gravity defying martial arts moves, an arsenal of exotic weaponry and swarms of shuriken flying in every direction. The trailer promises an expensive B-Movie and all the thrills that are standard for such a product. In other words, Ninja Assassin looks to be everything a fan could hope for.
To top it off, Ninja Assassin features cult legend Sho Kosugi (star of the above mentioned Golan/Globus productions) in an unidentified role. What more could a ninjaphile ask for?
Ninja Assassin will be released on November 25th. Keep your swords sharp and your shuriken at the ready.
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Ninja Assasin is cheey in my opinion, the action sequence could have been much better `