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We’re used to Hollywood remaking Asian Cinema, but this time the roles are reversed. Warner Brothers are set to remake the 1992 Clint Eastwood Western “The Unforgiven” as a Japanese-language Samurai film. And in his role will be actor Ken Watanabe, who’s no stranger to Hollywood with films like “Inception”, Memoirs of a Geisha” andContinue Reading

Can you buy Keanu Reeves as a Samurai? Well, the makers of “47 Ronin” are thinking that if Tom Cruise could pull it off, then why not a guy with actual Asian blood running through his veins. Reeves is part Chinese, so that’s close enough for Hollywood. Here’s the official synopsis: “Kai (Reeves), an outcastContinue Reading

Keanu Reeves isn’t exactly a versatile actor. There are only certain types of roles and genres that he can convincingly pull off. He plays stoic and introspective pretty well. What he doesn’t do so well are foreigners in period settings. For example, Keanu as Englishman Jonathan Harker in the Francis Ford Coppola version of “Bram’sContinue Reading

Here’s one minute of bloody, katana-slashing carnage from the film…