Only a Ninja Can Make a Ninja Movie
Ninjas are played out, but ninja movies will never lose their cool. And I’ve been waiting for the longest time for someone of taste and means to revive the genre previously dominated by Golan-Globus and the Canon Group, and to do it in a meaningful way (not you, Tom Cruise and Ed Zwick), which is why it gives me great hope to read of the Wachowskis’ plans for the space.
I grew up on ninja movies, I had Sho Kosugi posters all over my wall (and even got to meet him at a tournament once), and I knew all the ninja gang signs he does in the clip above (from Revenge of the Ninja (1983), which is the ninja cinephile’s Citizen Kane).
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