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The Ozunu Clan takes orphans from around the world and raises them as ninja assassins, renting their services to wealthy clients and killing any witnesses. Raizo, groomed as Lord Ozunu's successor, endures the clan's brutal training; the only tenderness he knows comes from Kiriko, a young kunoichi. When Kiriko decides to abandon the clan, she is branded a traitor, and Raizo stays behind. Years later he is a grown assassin, and after he slashes Lord Ozunu's face and flees the clan, he devotes himself to foiling its missions. In Berlin, Europol researcher Mika Coretti has linked a series of political murders to a ninja society, and when the ninjas come for her, Raizo rescues her and agrees to take his evidence to her chief, Ryan Maslow.
Cast
- Sungwoong Yoonas Young Raizo
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ninja Assassin (2009)
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- The initial screenplay by Matthew Sand was rewritten by J. Michael Straczynski only six weeks before filming, due to the Wachowskis' initial dissatisfaction with it.
- Sho Kosugi had played ninja villains and heroes several times in the 1980s and become a cult icon, hence his casting as the antagonist Lord Ozunu, a character named after En no Ozunu, a 7th-century Japanese mystic and one of the developers of ninjutsu.
- Collin Chou was originally cast for an undisclosed lead role after Jet Li turned down an offer to appear in the film, but Chou later left the role as well.
- The Wachowskis were inspired to make the film by actor Rain's ninja-based fight scenes in their own 2008 film Speed Racer.
