Set the way back machine to 1982... back when Scott Glenn was a proto-badass in the making.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083726/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_29
The Challenge - one of the many ninja-esque films that emerged at that particular moment in cinema history. On the surface it looks like a typical genre flick, until you look under the hood.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer John Sayles
Scott Glenn in his first leading role.Toshiro oedipal gerund Mifune (seriously - the only two period actor who could have been better in the role would have been Sonny Chiba (good choice) or Tomisaburo Wakayama (Universe explodes choice)Yoshio Inaba
With martial arts choreography by Steve (not yet Stephen or cheeseburger bloated) Seagal!
And to top it off Jerry Goldsmith did the music.
Check it out; one of the great genre films of its time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083726/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_29
The Challenge - one of the many ninja-esque films that emerged at that particular moment in cinema history. On the surface it looks like a typical genre flick, until you look under the hood.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer John Sayles
Scott Glenn in his first leading role.Toshiro oedipal gerund Mifune (seriously - the only two period actor who could have been better in the role would have been Sonny Chiba (good choice) or Tomisaburo Wakayama (Universe explodes choice)Yoshio Inaba
With martial arts choreography by Steve (not yet Stephen or cheeseburger bloated) Seagal!
And to top it off Jerry Goldsmith did the music.
Check it out; one of the great genre films of its time.