RELEASE DATE: November 25, 2009.
STYLE: High Action & High Martial Arts Visual FX
Director:
James McTeigue (V For Vendetta)Runtime: 99 minutes.
Sho Kosugi Returns!
Sho Kosugi of the "Enter the Ninja" trilogy stars as the ruthless leader of the Ozunu Clan in Ninja Assassins.
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The ninja movies back with a big time vengeance.
Could this be a spearhead to a new ninja boom?
Ninja Assassin just plain rocks.
From the makers of the Matrix films.
OVERVIEW
A skilled young ninja Raizo (Rain) turns his back on the orphanage that trained him in ninja skills and also raised him, this leads to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan and his ninja assassins.
Lot's of bloody gore and ninja violence. Tons of ninjas.
Official Movie Synopsis from Warner Bros. Pictures, via Comingsoon:
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo (Rain), 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 (Naomie Harris) 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 (Ben Miles), 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 (Rick Yune), 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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