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Ninja Assassin is a 2009 martial arts film directed by James McTeigue. The story was written by Matthew Sand, with a screenplay by J. Michael Straczynski. The film stars South Korean pop musician Rain as a disillusioned assassin looking for retribution against his former mentor, played by ninja film legend Sho Kosugi. Ninja Assassin explores political corruption, child endangerment and the impact of violence. The Wachowskis, Joel Silver, and Grant Hill produced the film for Legendary Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment and Silver Pictures. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The Ozunu Clan, led by the ruthless Lord Ozunu, trains orphans from around the world to become the ultimate ninja assassins to offer assassin service to rich clients. The clan charges 100 pound worth of gold for their services and always kill any witnesses in the vicinity of their target. Raizo is one of the orphans. The Ozunu Clan's training is extremely brutal, especially for Raizo since he is to be the next successor of the clan. The only kindness he ever feels is from a young kunoichi named Kiriko, with whom he eventually develops a romantic bond. As time goes by, Kiriko becomes disenchanted with the Ozunu's routine and decides to abandon it. One rainy night, Kiriko climbs a wall to escape and encourages Raizo to join her, but he chooses to stay. Branded as a traitor, Kiriko is captured and later executed in front of Raizo by their elder ninja brother Takeshi, who impales her through the heart.

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Years later, an adult Raizo is instructed by Lord Ozunu to complete his first assassination to kill a group of gangster. After the mission, Raizo meets the rest of his clan atop a city skyscraper in Berlin. There, Lord Ozunu orders him to execute a kunoichi traitor. Remembering Kiriko's death, Raizo slashes Lord Ozunu's face with his kyoketsu-shoge and fights against his fellow ninjas. Barely surviving, he falls off the rooftop and into a river. After years, Raizo recovers and trains on his own to intervene in, and foil, all of Ozunu's assassination attempts.

Although feeling betrayed, Mika is assured by Maslow that he is still on her side and gives her a tracking device for emergencies. The Ozunu ninjas infiltrate the Europol safe house, where Raizo is being held, in an attempt to kill him and everybody inside. Mika frees Raizo and they both manage to escape, but Raizo suffers near-fatal wounds. Mika then takes him to a motel to hide. Resting in the motel, Mika implants the tracking device into Raizo, as the ninjas remain in pursuit. Unable to fend off the Ozunu, she hides outside the motel until Special Forces arrive to help her.

By the time they arrive, the ninja have already kidnapped Raizo, bringing him before Lord Ozunu for execution. During the transport back to the Ozunu, Raizo uses his ninja techniques to heal his own wounds. Europol Special Forces and tactical teams led by Maslow storm the secluded Ozunu retreat (nestled in the mountains) using the tracking device on Raizo.

Turning the night into day by saturating the sky above with powerful flares, the military forces are able to fight the ninjas on their own terms. In the confusion, Mika frees Raizo from his bindings. He proceeds to kill Takeshi and confront Lord Ozunu in a sword duel. Mika interferes to help but gets stabbed by Lord Ozunu. Enraged, Raizo uses a "shadow blending" technique for the first time to distract and kill Lord Ozunu. Mika, seemingly fatally wounded, is in fact saved by a quirk of birth: her heart is actually on the right side of her chest.

Ninja Assassin was directed by James McTeigue, who had previously worked with producers The Wachowskis and Joel Silver on V for Vendetta four years prior. The Wachowskis were inspired to make the film by actor Rain's impressive ninja-based fight scenes in their 2008 film Speed Racer. The initial screenplay was written by Matthew Sand, and was rewritten by J. Michael Straczynski only six weeks prior to filming due to the Wachowskis' initial dissatisfaction. Martial Artist turned actor Sho Kosugi had previously starred in a number of ninja movies playing ninja villains and heroes several times in the 1980s, and had become a cult icon, hence his role as the antagonist Lord Ozunu, named after En no Ozunu, a 7th-century Japanese mystic and one of the developers of ninjutsu. "If you've ever watched any ninja films from the 1980s, you know that Sho Kosugi is the ninja; he is the man," asserts McTeigue.[5]

The film received mixed reviews from critics, while some praised the revival of the martial arts genre, the movie still failed on originality. On Rotten Tomatoes 26% of 117 critics gave the film positive reviews, with an average rating of 4.40/10. The site's consensus reads "Overly serious and incomprehensibly edited, Ninja Assassin fails to live up to the promise of its title."[13] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 34% based on 20 reviews.[14] While critics generally panned the film as a melange of gore scenes without a convincing plot,[13] some critics commended the film's numerous action scenes. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B" on scale of A+ to F.[15]

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle described the film as "a gorefest, a borefest and a snorefest."[16] Joe Williams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch opined that "this amateurish action flick is so lacking in personality or punch, it ought to be titled 'V for Video Store Discount Bin.'"[17]

Entertainment Weekly's Chris Nashawaty wrote "...this slick slice of martial-arts mayhem from the producers of The Matrix is awash in blood. It spurts and sprays in geysers. And it never lets up. There's a brutal (and admittedly very cool) fight scene every five minutes... But let's be honest, killing is this film's business... and business is good."[18]

Ninja Assassin opened at #6 at the North American box office earning $13,316,158 in its first opening weekend. The film grossed $60,462,347, of which $38,122,883 was from North America. In Japan, this film opened on the March 6, 2010 in only one movie theater in Shinjuku and then also opened on the March 20 in Osaka.[19] Ninja Assassin earned 2,214,000 yen (Approximately $25,672 U.S.) during its first opening weekend in Shinjuku.[20]

There are moments, scattered throughout the runtime like little nuggets of gold, when the camera work feels a little gritty and grainy, as if shot on substandard film or broadcast from a projector that has seen better days. Given the entire film was shot on digital, it seems rather conspicuous. These shots are there just long enough to suggest the director wants to pay stylised homage to all those ridiculously bloody martial arts films of old.

I did worry a little way into the film, as after a strong opening and a moment of sheer geek joy, which is only lit by torch light, I found myself bemoaning some fight scenes for being too darkly lit and edited too quickly. However, it would appear that move was an intentional decision, to keep the onscreen fighting varied and make the audience savour the entire end sequence, so bear with it.

Ninja Assassin is a movie likely to polarise viewers. On the one hand, you have the anime generation numb to the gory violence cheering on every move of the spectacular ninja Raizo (played by Korean actor/popstar Rain). On the other, there will be those outraged by the excessive blood and carnage, wondering how a movie like this ever got made.

The fight scenes are pretty amazing. They all looked like they knew what they were doing, and each sequence was wonderfully choreographed and executed. Knowing a little about Rain (who was previously seen by American audiences in Speed Racer) before the movie, I was impressed by his drastic improvement in English as well as his astounding physical transformation. I read elsewhere that Rain trained so hard for this film that he vomited after training almost every day.

In the latest issue of Kungfu/Taichi magazine, I discussed in my column "Ninja Assassin" More Like Forest Devil Assassin" that although NINJA ASSASSIN is about Japanese ninja, the action fights look more like Chinese martial arts using Chinese martial arts-influenced fight choreography. I further noted that each series of techniques simply ends with a samurai or ninja-like pose. This was written prior to NINJA ASSASSIN's release and based on the trailers and publicity videos. Now, having watched NINJA ASSASSIN, I stand by my words, but my opinion of the film has turned much more positive. Among films with the best ninja action fights where you can actually see what's going on, Kuo Chue's Shaw Brothers film NINJA IN THE DEADLY TRAP (1981) and Ching Siu-tung's DUEL TO THE DEATH (1983) are still tops, but without a doubt NINJA ASSASSIN (NA) is the most exciting and engaging ninja film I have ever seen.

NA is also one of the bloodiest martial arts films ever made. With blatant yet "cute" use of CGI, the movie "ups the ante" on the blood-gushing slice-and-dice style of fight choreography first introduced by the Japanese chambara (samurai sword fighting) films of the 1950s and perfected by Hong Kong kung fu films of the 1970s. These conclusions come from a lifetime of watching martial arts films (more than 4200 in my video collection) as well as my experience in the film industry as a fight choreographer, which started in Chinese kung fu films beginning in 1979 (during my debut film, I helped choreograph samurai fight scenes). But I can assure you that the fights in that film were piddley poop compared to NA. Furthermore, due to some nifty camera work, fight choreography and hard training, non-martial artist Korean actor/singer Rain gives a martial arts pour-formance that rivals the flood of any Chinese non martial arts kung fu star that has reigned over Hong Kong's box office past or present. 2351a5e196