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Contradicting the unsubstantiated speculation from websites including Kung Fu Rodeo<\/a> and ICv2<\/a> that director James McTeigue’s next film, Ninja Assassin, will be a live action adaptation of Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s 1993 anime film Jubei Ninpucho (known as “Ninja Scroll” outside of Japan), the Hollywood Reporter has, today, published a brief plot summary<\/a> of the film that bears no resemblance to “Ninja Scroll.”<\/p>\n The martial arts extravaganza stars Korean actor\/singer Rain (Jung Ji Hoon) as a man raised in an orphanage functioning as a ninja farm. The man turns his back to his past to make his way in the modern world, bringing him into conflict with a fellow ninja from the clan that remains faithful to the traditions of their childhood ninja training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Contradicting the unsubstantiated speculation from websites including Kung Fu Rodeo and ICv2 that director James McTeigue’s next film, Ninja Assassin, will be a live action adaptation of Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s 1993 anime film Jubei Ninpucho (known as “Ninja Scroll” outside of Japan), the Hollywood Reporter has, today, published a brief plot summary of the film that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}