Ninja Assassin [Blu-ray]

Director: James McTeigue, Naomie Harris James McTeigue

Overview

V for Vendetta director James McTeigue re-teams with that film's producers Larry and Andy Wachowski for this action-packed tale of a skilled assassin who was trained by a mythical secret society, and patiently awaits the day he will avenge the death of his best friend. Swept off the streets as a young boy, Raizo (Korean pop star Rain) is transformed into an unstoppable killing machine by a secret society known as the Ozunu Clan. The Ozunu Clan is so proficient at keeping their existence a secret that most people think they are only a myth, but the moment Ozuno assassins kill Raizo's friend, their days in the shadows are numbered. In the aftermath of that killing, Raizo stages a daring escape, subsequently biding his time until the day he can take the entire Ozunu Clan down. Later, in Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) discovers a money trail connecting multiple political murders to a mysterious network of elusive assassins from the Far East. While her superior Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles) orders Mika to back down and stop asking questions, she stealthily begins searching through classified agency files on a relentless mission to discover the truth about the murders. Singled out as a target as a direct result of her investigation, Mika is marked for death by lethal Ozunu assassin Takeshi (Rick Yune). Just as Mika is about to be silenced forever, Raizo saves her from certain death. But Raizo knows that Takeshi and the rest of the Ozuno Clan won't stop until he and Mika are both dead. Now, as Raizo and Mika are hunted through the winding streets of Europe, their only hope for survival is to trust one another and stay alive long enough to bring the Ozunu empire crumbling to the ground.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/06/2015
UPC:	0883929523771
Original Release:	2009
Source:	Warner Home Video
Language:	English
Sales rank:	29,044

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Rain	Raizo
Naomie Harris	Mika
Ben Miles	Maslow
Rick Yune	Takeshi
Sho Kosugi	Lord Ozunu,Ozunu
Guido Foehrweisser	Europol Agent
Stephen Marcus	Kingpin
Wladimir Tarasjanz	Aleksei Sabatin
Randall Duk Kim	Tattoo Master
Jonathan Chan-Pensley	Yakuza Henchman
Ill-Young Kim	Yakuza Mohawk
Yuki Iwamoto	Yakuza Couch
Linh Dan Pham	Pretty Ninja
Yu Fang	Laundromat Manager
Adriana Altaras	Landlady
Kylie Liya Goldstein	Young Kiriko,Kiriko jeune
Sungwoong Yoon	Young Raizo
Eleonore Weisgerber	Mrs. Sabatin
Joon Lee	Teenage Raizo
Kai Fung Rieck	Teenage Takeshi
Anna Sawai	Teenage Kiriko
Thorston Manderlay	Zabranski
Richard Vanweyden	Battuta
Mina Ghousi	Kid with Envelope
Hans Hohlbein	Mika's Neighbor
Nhi Ngoc Nguyen-Hermann	Girl on Roof
Tim Williams	Europol Cell Guard
David Leitch	Europol Door Guard
Wolfgang Stegemann	Europol Pointman
Steffen Groth	Europol Guard
Jens Neuhaus	Europol Guard
Patrick Pinheiro	Maslow's Aide
Matthias Schendel	Task Force Agent
Johannes Ahn	Medic
Sung Kang	Hollywood
Alexander Yassin	Indonesian Shopman - Istanbul
Vladimir Tarasjanz	Aleksei Sabatin
Ilan Eshkeri	Composer

Technical Credits

J. Michael Straczynski

Matthew Sand

James McTeigue	Director
J. Michael Straczynski	Screenwriter
Matthew Sand	Screenwriter
Joel Silver	Producer,Producer
Grant Hill	Producer
Steve Richards	Executive Producer
Thomas Tull	Executive Producer
Jon Jashni	Executive Producer
William Fay	Executive Producer
Lucinda Syson	Casting
Noon Orsatti	Stunts
Chad Stahelski	Stunts
Dan Glass	Special Effects
Lilly Wachowski	Producer,Producer
Nancy Barker	Sound Effects
Dane A. Davis	Sound Effects,Sound Effects
Bill R. Dean	Sound Effects
Bradley James Allan	Stunts
Naomie Harris	Director
Ivan Sharrock	Sound Mixer

Editorial Reviews

Ninja Assassin isn't the kind of movie that you compare to other movies. You compare it to a 2-lb. bacon sandwich with a bomb inside. You compare it to a magical gas-powered modified AK-47 that shoots live bears that are also on fire. And, okay, if you really want, you can compare it to B-level kung fu fare, or to other stuff that's been inspired by those movies, like Kill Bill. No, Ninja Assassin isn't exactly a Tarantino-level masterpiece, but it's still a rollicking good time for anybody interested in gratuitous fight sequences, the gratuitous severing of limbs, and the resulting gratuitous geysers of blood. And, honestly, who goes into a movie called Ninja Assassin expecting anything else? The story centers on Raizo (played by impossibly pretty Korean pop star Rain), a defector from a brutal Spartan-esque school of ninja badassery, where he trained to be an assassin from childhood. It would seem that, after mastering the skills to fight an adversary blindfolded, will his body to heal its own wounds, and take down multiple attackers with what looks like a knife on the end of a wallet chain, Raizo realized that the sensei who ran his school was just using him for his own evil ends -- namely, profit. Meanwhile, intrepid Interpol investigator Mika (Naomie Harris) starts sniffing around the clandestine ninja association's track record and unwittingly makes herself a target. So, naturally, because he shares her desire to bring the organization down (and maybe because she reminds him of the weirdly compassionate girl who once trained with him to be a hired killer), he rescues her from vivisection and the two team up. Ninja Assassin can be oddly earnest at times, but don't let that fool you -- this movie is a tribute. Between guys getting riddled with throwing stars as if they were buckshot and a showdown that boils down to ninjas vs. automatic weapons, it's pretty clear that director James McTeigue wanted to have a little fun. And while it can lack humor, we can't say it lacks depth because it's not supposed to have any. It's actually kind of a cool idea to take a generic martial-arts action script -- complete with epic training montages and people from other countries whose native tongue is to speak English with a foreign accent -- and see how far you can get on a modest budget, with CG offering so many more possibilities than the old days. You certainly can't fault the filmmakers for trying, and lucky for us, it turns out it was a worthwhile experiment.