Raizo is a world's deadliest Special Forces Ninja Assassin. Orphaned as a child, he is raised by the Ozunu Clan (The Black Sand Clan), which is believed by the world to be a myth. When the only love he has known, Kiriko is executed by the Clan for betrayal, Raizo begins to harbor a resentment towards the Clan. When his first official mission is completed, he is told to execute one of his fellow members for the same reasons Kiriko was killed. He rebels against them, nearly dying in the process, and goes into hiding and seeking revenge on his former family. Meanwhile, Mika Coretti is a Europol agent who investigates money linked to a long line of political murders and finds that it traces back to the clan. She defies her superior, Ryan Maslow and uncovers agency files to find out more. The Ozunu, finding out about the investigation, attempts to assassinate her, but she is rescued by Raizo. Now being pursued in Berlin, Raizo and Mika must find a way to take down the Ozunu Clan permanently and stay alive from the shadowy warriors from which there is no place to hide.
James McTeigue: Assistant director of the Matrix trilogy, Star Wars II: Attack of The Clones, and he made his directorial debut in the 2006 film V for Vendetta.
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Naomie Melanie Harris: an English screen actress known for her starring role as Selena in 28 Days Later and her supporting turn asTia Dalma (Calypso) in the second and third Pirates of the Carribean movies.
LORD SHO KOSUGI: a Japanese martial artist with training in shinto-jinen style karate who gained popularity as an actor during the 1980s, usually playing a ninja.
So I have this rule about movies:
If there's no black people in the movie,
I don't rent it, buy it, or go to see it.
I'll buy a movie if there's at least 1 black person in a lead role; or, if there are no African-American actors, give me a Latino, Asian, or some other person of color that I can identify with. If it's an all white cast -forget it.
I don't finance a colorless world-view of things for nobody. That being said, if the movie falls into one of my interests, I don't care who's in the movie. What I'm talking about is funding a target audience for entertainment that does not included me -or those that look like me -or the larger community of people of color.
So I said all that to say, that if I knew that Naomie Harris
was the co-lead in Ninja Assassin, I would've been there opening day!
Are you kidding me? Ninjutsu! And Naomie as the co-lead!
And the asian hero in the movie isn't depicted in some culturally
typical and/or unempowered way. Hours before seeing it, I read that it was a Joel Silver & Wachowski Bros. production.
Now why is it that the Wachowski Brothers are
the only white guys in the film industry who consistently include
Black people prominently in their movies??
Let me tell ya this, ...they get MY money because they do.
When was the last time you saw a Black or Latino family
featured on the Learning Channel?
Are there no working class people of color with multiples???,
or Dwarfism??
-PEEP GAME PEOPLE
AN EMANATION FROM HERO MECHALITH
http://heromechalithmillennium.blogspot.com/
www.mechalithmillennium.com
Your rule is a good one! If only the rest of the world thought that way (or at least film makers!)
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