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In this international action thriller, Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert) is an American salesman with a computer firm who is in Japan on business. While spending an evening in a bar, he meets Kirina (Joan Chen), a beautiful but mysterious woman. Paul buys Kirina a drink, one thing leads to another, and he ends up spending the night with her. However, when Paul is on one of his many business trips to Tokyo, as a computer-chip executive from New York, when he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman. Later, he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, inadvertently interrupting an assassination by a feared Ninja-cult. As he is now the only man to have seen the face of the cult’s warrior-leader and lived, he soon realizes that he is facing a markedly foreshortened life-expectancy. Teaming up with a friendly samurai couple, on a two-centuries-old blood-feud with the Ninja, he struggles to survive. Finally, recuperating on an island-fortress, he learns swordsmanship, and perhaps, a little about courage, honor, love, and loyalty. The requisite final confrontation is rife with bloody swordplay and spectacular martial-arts action sequences. —IMDb

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Cosi

3Mar13

Amazing! "Some bad people are coming..." The sword choreography is up there with Hook and some other film where the sword choreography sucks

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HKFanatic

11Sep12

Based on this film's DVD cover art, you'd be forgiven for thinking "The Hunted" was just another direct-to-video Christopher Lambert flick. But genre fans shouldn't be so quick to write this movie off. "The Hunted" actually features one of the best action set-pieces of the 90's with its bullet train ninja massacre, as well as solid supporting turns from great Asian talent like John Lone and Joan Chen. Recommended.

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