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In Japan, where the blades are shiny and sharp and if the fake blood isn't staining the lens, you're not trying hard enough, there' s a rich tradition of sword-and-splatter pictures. That's the tradition Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" leaned on, and it's the foundation of "Ninja Assassin," a more run-of-the-mill Hollywood ninja movie with "Matrix" ties.
For a thousand years, "The Nine Clans" have taken in orphans from around the world and have forged -- OK, literally beaten -- them into cold-blooded killing machines, lightning-quick shadow warriors who move too quickly to see and have supernatural abilities to recover from all the cuts their samurai swords, throwing stars (shuriken) and neato dagger-chains (kusarigama) inflict. Meet their price -- and it hasn't changed in a millennium, "100 pounds of gold" -- and they'll kill anybody you say.See the full content of this document
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Review: 'Ninja Assassin' Lacks Sword-and-Splatter Edge
Ozuno (Sho Kosugi) trains his clan to kill without mercy -- orphans beating and killing other orph...
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