Blade of the 47 Ronin #2022
Who would have thought we would be seeing a sequel to 47 Ronin among all of the Halloween goodies? But sure enough, Universal 1440 Entertainment, the company’s direct-to-video department, has come up with Blade of the 47 Ronin, a modern-day sequel to the Keanu Reeves samurai epic. And they said there’s no such thing as The Great Pumpkin.
Somewhere in Budapest Yurei (Dan Southworth, The Doorman, Battle Drone) kills Arai (Chris Pang, Fist of the Dragon, Tomorrow When the War Began) thought to be the last in the bloodline of those who wielded the Blade of the 47 Ronin. But as he kills him he senses the existence of another heir.
As the other clans argue over what to do about the sword and the prophecy attached to it, Onami (Teresa Ting, Don Peyote, She Has A Name) one of Lord Shinshiro’s (Mark Dacascos, Run & Gun, One Night in Bangkok) onna-bugeisha reaches out to Reo (Mike Moh, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Killerman).
A skilled tracker he once served Shinshiro but is now a ronin. He finds out the sword is in the hands of Luna (Anna Akana, Amphibia, Big City Greens) a young American woman with a shady past and a very uncertain future.
The script, which took three writers, Aimee Garcia, A.J. Mendez, and John Swetnam (Into the Storm, Breaking Through) gives him plenty of chances to stage them while giving the cast lines like “You’re just going to leave a beheaded dude on the ground?” But apart from that, it’s a fairly typical East meets West action film with some fantasy elements thrown in involving the fusing of the Blade of 47 Ronin with the Witch Blade to create a Tengu Blade.
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