Snakes in Ibukis stage, stay in the trees, ninjas go on trains.
Very slightly you might associate trenchcoat with Q,
I still say in Tupac’s early 90’s film ‘Juice’ Omar Epps with the bucket hat and coat he was a character named Q.
that 1:45 white guy in a Japan movie facepalm.
Damn. You didn’t have much of a face anyway, Ibuki’s mom lady. Or maybe she’s more like Juri all the kids are into now, weird psycho bitches.
“What do we do if he loses?!” - “bitch, made”
No guns is bitch mode. Like the police clean up will care if the ninjas were shot or katana’d.
A lot of hollywood movies based on Eastern stuff like this could be better without having the white guy present, that sorta thing was what I was thinking or getting at.
Like the shoehorned American hero into the “finally Jet Li and Jackie Chan in a movie together.”
That would’ve been nice, yeah. Unfortunately they need a Hollywood name to sell the movie, and considering the 80s didn’t have many Asian male actors known in America, the Highlander was good enough I guess.
Main bad guy too, John Lone an interesting choice considering he’s straight “banana” Americanized, Nie-sei [sic]? family came Americas a long time ago probably considering his look and speech was probably English first.
no Japanese accent at all with being a American movie, forced to say English per the story… in Native Japan speaking in the ninja clan forest compound.
Drunk 200% Japan sword maker who even teaches Raiden here how to swing the blade, far cooler than John Lone. But the samurai guy himself pretty badass.