And enjoyable couple formed by Yoshio Harada as Takeda Sensei and Yôko Shimada as Mieko Takeda. Passable acting by Christopher Lambert as a businessman who finds himself struggling to survive in the wrong place at the wrong time, and John Lone is good as a feared Ninja chief. The picture is full of tumultuous sequences with frenetic action, surprises, climatic combats and groundbreaking struggles. It contains usual learning period in which the naive businessman learns a little about courage, honor, love, swordsmanship and loyalty. Overwhelming and rousing fights with deadly use of Katanas, feet and palms, along with such weapons as swords, sticks, lances and ¨Shuriken¨. Amid the glamour of the scenarios is developed an intrigue about feud among Japanese factions, a two-centuries-old blood-confrontation with the Ninja and Takeda clan, including betrayal, crime and exploring the dark side of vengeance. This is a colourful, mostly filmed in Japan and medium budget movie leave no cliché untouched, though the rife fighting is magnificently staged. This Ninja film packs bloody swordplay, spectacular martial-arts and noisy action sequences. Finally, there occurs the definitive final duel between Ninjas from Makato clan and Takeda faction. Ultimately, Paul recuperating on an island-fortress and learning about life and sword-play. Later on, at a speed train takes place a violent face off between Ninja-sect hoodlums and Sensei, his wife along with Paul the result is an astonishing massacre. Then, he joins forces with a friendly samurai couple (Harada and Shimada) who helps him. As he is now the only man to have seen the figure of the cult's warrior-chief (John Lone) named Makato and nobody has survived after seeing his face, as he soon realizes that he is taking on a markedly foreshortened life-expectancy. After that, he inadvertently interrupting his meeting by a killing. It deals with Paul (Christopher Lambert) a computer-chip executive from New York travels to Tokyo, there he finds a gorgeous Japanese girl (Joan Chen). By day by night.the fact that he has to die¨. The story starts with a quote by Daidoh Yuzan, 16th Century : ¨One who is a Samurai must before all things keep constantly in mind. Samurai movie with well staged scenes, colorful ambient, professionally directed and Japan set.
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