World-renowned martial arts champion, actress Chihiro Yamamoto, makes her lead debut in Blackfox: Age Of The Ninja. Hailing from Nihon Eiga Broadcasting for in-house paid TV service, Samurai Drama Channel, the first teaser is already making the rounds – billed as a live-action prequel feature to the pending October 5 release of sci-fi anime, Blackfox.
Yamamoto will play a girl named Miya whose special ability makes her the target of mercenaries. In wake of her father’s murder at the hands of the killers, Miya not only salvation in a chance meeting with Hyoe and his granddaughter Rikka Isurugi, who comes from a long line of ninja in her family, but also a potential ally in avenging her father.
Legendary action director and filmmaker Koichi Sakamoto, who has worked on numerous costume television franchises like Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and Power Rangers among other film and TV credits, directs from a script by Naoki Hayashi. Sakamoto himself personally cast Yamamoto, a prodigy who began her now lionized craft at age three studying Taijiquan, and now marks her third project with Sakamoto following Ultraman Geed.
Yamamoto is joined by legendary action cinema thesp, Yasuaki Kurata, and by Maimi Yajima, Sakurako Okubo, Mami Fujioka, Yuki Kubota, Hideo Ishiguro, Kanon Miyahara, Koji Nakamura and Takeshi Masu. Tomoyuki Miyagawa will serve as executive producer.
