Ninja assassin

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Movie
German title Ninja assassin
Original title Ninja assassin
Country of production USA , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director James McTeigue
script J. Michael Straczynski ,
Matthew Sand
production Joel Silver ,
The Wachowskis ,
Grant Hill
music Ilan Eshkeri
camera Karl Walter Lindenlaub
cut Gian Ganziano,
Joseph Jett Sally
occupation

Ninja Assassin is an American-German martial arts film . It was produced by the Wachowski siblings and Joel Silver ; Directed by James McTeigue . The cinema release in Germany was on December 10, 2009.

action

Flashbacks tell how Raizō, a boy abandoned by his parents, wanders homeless and finds a place to stay with the cruel Ozunu clan, one of the most feared organizations in Japan. There begins for him and many other boys and girls a merciless training in the arts of the ninjas, but above all the handling of shuriken and kusarigama (rope blades). One day, however, Raizo's girlfriend is killed by the Ozunu as punishment for trying to escape.

When Raizō himself is supposed to kill a renegade member after his successful first murder, he turns away from the Ozunu clan and its traditions and flees.

Later, in the presence of the action in Berlin, the Europol agent Mika Coretti discovers large flows of money as payment for political murders, which ultimately lead her on the trail of the clan, which until then was regarded by the western world as a myth. She defies the orders of her superior Ryan Maslow and continues to investigate on her own. When the Ozunu become aware of them, the killer Takeshi is dispatched to kill Mika Coretti. Raizō, however, manages to free them.

Mika and Raizō escape together from Mika's apartment to a hotel. Raizō confirms Mika's research regarding the ninja clans and agrees to work with Europol. At a meeting between Mika, Raizo and Mika's superiors, Raizo is arrested and held in a warehouse. The leader of the Ozunu clan sends a group of ninjas to capture Raizō and kill Mika. Mika manages to escape with Raizo, who is seriously injured while trying to escape.

Mika and Raizo flee back to the hotel, where Mika activates a tracking device, which enables Europol to locate the location of Raizo. Raizō is captured by emerging ninjas of the Ozunu clan and taken to the Ozunu headquarters. The headquarters are stormed by the "International Police Troops" arriving a short time later. In the ensuing fighting, Raizō kills Takeshi and the leader of the clan, who seriously injured Mika shortly before his death.

production

The script for Ninja Assassin was completely revised by J. Michael Straczynski in 53 hours, because Andy and Lana Wachowski did not agree with the original version.

The film was produced in Berlin and in the Babelsberg film studio from April 2008 onwards and received economic funding from the German Film Fund of EUR 5.8 million.

The director of the film, James McTeigue, named many old Eastern and Kung Fu films as sources of inspiration and role models for his film Ninja Assassin .

The work grossed $ 38.1 million in US theaters and around $ 61.6 million worldwide, with an estimated cost of $ 40 million to produce. In Germany, the film, which started with 157 copies, was visited by more than 88,220 moviegoers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Movie Info: Ninja Assassin
  2. ↑ Summary of the content
  3. ↑ DFFF funding commitments
  4. ↑ cf. Box office / box office results on imdb.com, accessed on December 15, 2010.
  5. ↑ a b cf. Article on mediabiz.de , accessed on December 15, 2010.