Ever been out on a job or maybe just shopping for shuriken when suddenly you realize, “Crap! I left my ninja hood at home!” Well, have no fear! Turns out any ordinary t-shirt (perhaps one of ours) can be turned easily into your very own hood. Full instructions here.
A travesty. An absolute travesty. It could have been a great movie about ninjas trying to adapt to modern times while staying true to their long-held code and traditions. Could almost have been a parable about the struggles of us here at the International Ninja Union. But instead, the movie takes a bitter ex-ninja named Raizo who failed his training and then slaughters an entire clan of hard-working ninja and turns him into the hero!
How dare they!
Now, there are some sympathetic characters in the movie:
Ozuno, the kindly old ninja master who takes the young Raizo under his wing
Takesh, his adopted brother, who helps train him, and protects him from those who would betray him–like the young girl who coddles him as a child and tries to seduce him away from the clan when they are teens
even an attractive ninja who only wants help folding a sheet in the laundrymat
But they are all slaughtered in turn by the psychopathic and vengeful, Raizo. I truly hope no one falls for this anti-ninja propaganda. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a negative four billion.
I cannot tell you how excited I, and everyone I’ve talked to in the INU, are about this movie. I have read many reviews, but as none of them were written by actual ninja, they had no merit. One reviewer even claimed that the film would only interest someone who wanted to see a CGI throwing star cut a man in half. First of all, I think they underestimate the power of a good throwing star disembowelment scene. But also, one must study ninjitsu for many years before one is qualified to pass judgment on a film of this magnitude. Therefore, I will post a full review after I see the film tomorrow night.  And here, in case you haven’t seen it yet, is the movie trailer (sort of):