Sentai Filmworks stealthily announces their acquisition of the new martial arts thriller THE KUNOICHI. Directed by Seiji Chiba (ALIEN VS NINJA) and with fight choreography by the live-action GANTZ's Kensuke Sonomura, the feature is the third starring vehicle for beautiful Japanese Karate champion Rina Takeda, who at only 19 years old has already landed continuing roles in two Japanese TV series and looks posed to become a major action superstar.
Opposite Takeda as the opposing forces are male leads Mituski Koga, who
starred in Chiba’s previous features, ALIEN VS NINJA and EVIL NINJA, pop
singer Yuichi Sato of the Purboys, and Kentaro Shimazu (OUTRAGE); while
Takeda’s fellow female cast members include popular actress/singer
Shiho Fujisawa (SAYANARA COLOR).
Synopsis: As
the long, brutal and bloody war between the Iga and Koga ninja wages
on, it is the women of the rival clans who pay the heaviest price. The
kunoichi must fight alongside their fathers and brothers, they must bury
their sons and their husbands, and when captured themselves, are denied
an honorable death and instead reduced to sex slaves for the purpose of
slaking the savage and twisted desires of their former foes.
But when
Iga warriors Shimotsuki and Hyotsu kidnap four Koga women, they soon
learn that killing the beautiful ninja girl Kisaragi would have been a
far wiser course of action. For a kunoichi is never unarmed, even when
naked, and Kisaragi is deadlier than most. Rising martial arts
superstar and Japanese Karate champion Rina Takeda explodes into action
as prey becomes the hunter in THE KUNOICHI.
THE KUNOICHI will soon be available digitally through many outlets, with a home video release later this year on DVD.
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