February 14, 2005

Shinobi Trailer

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shinobi.jpgHere's one that's making the rounds mighty quickly. Someone sent me the link last night and I've already spotted it on a pair of other sites ... Shinobi is a Japanese period martial arts piece from Ten Shimoyama that reminds me of Ryuhei Kitamura's Azumi in a lot of ways except, hopefully, better. If nothing else this one's got an impressive sense of style and scope, they've obviously sunk some money into the design and it's got a cast that can actually act. At least Joe Odagiri can. He's the only one I recognized. Here's hoping that they actually took the time to teach their fighters to fight before rolling the cameras. It seems like a fairly obvious step, but somehow Kitamura keeps forgetting to do it ... You can hit the trailer here.

» Posted by Todd at February 14, 2005 12:55 PM
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evening. managing to strip this out of the website to watch it rather than keep it in a window...

» Posted by logboy at February 14, 2005 02:15 PM

Ten Shimoyama did a pretty good job directing real fighters with MUSCLE HEAT. Can't wait to see this one!

» Posted by Michael Rittenberry at February 14, 2005 02:43 PM

Nakama Yukie is pretty but she's not that great of an actress.

» Posted by died-alive at February 14, 2005 02:45 PM

They might've sunk some money into the design, but apparently they were short on the money for the composer. Good use of the $99 Casio keyboard though.

» Posted by Vitamin Z at February 14, 2005 03:32 PM

Looks weak.

» Posted by crazybee at February 14, 2005 03:46 PM

Going from your guys comments its got
1. Prety girl
2. Casio Keyboard Music
3. Tits out

sure no one mentioned the tits out but thats just cause your all polite right?

cant wait to get hoem and lookat this sucka.

» Posted by Donkee at February 14, 2005 04:09 PM

I loves me some Casio keyboard music!!!

» Posted by opus at February 14, 2005 05:49 PM

The team who directed the action scenes in versus have already released a movie called Shinobi, I'm hoping this is a lot better, that one has ninja's in a forest, low budget, very scatty.

» Posted by Chris at February 15, 2005 04:14 AM

"Shinobi" was the first in an experiment here to allow members of the general public to invest in studio feature films, with a guarantee of at least an even return. The film was already greenlit before the campaign started. The minimum investment was 100,000 yen (around US$1000). Not sure how it went in the end.

» Posted by Jason G. at February 16, 2005 11:31 AM

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