**UPDATE** - NEw teaser for the below can be found
here!
While a few Western ninja flicks are due in 2009, I'm way more into some home-grown Japanese fare, especially the newly teasered KAMUI live action flick. This image from the just updated official website looks dead-on to the original property:
Kamui - the ninja trying to leave the shadow life behind, but unable to ever fully find peace - has seen a few incarnations in manga and anime form. Crafted by the acclaimed creator of "Kagemaru" SANPEI SHIRATO in 1972, the original manga ran for three years, and was then resurrected in a gritty and grimmer form in 1982.
One of the first translated manga series to grace store shelves in the US was the 80's run of reprints by VIZ comics, which I HIGHLY recommend. See some pages
here.
And check out these incredible capsule toys from 2007:
This 'german suplex' sort of move was a Kamui special finisher, done from the high branches of trees to the hard earth below. The notion of a ninja with a pro wrestling closer warms my heart...
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