TACFEST III Review: Shane Kosugi’s SEEK Brings The Ninja Fever Back In a Notable Directorial Debut

Having inherited a name as Kosugi, always associated to Ninja badassery, thanks to the immortality of celluloid. It was inevitable that the sons of one of the big responsables of the Ninja fever that infected the world during the 80’s, were going to follow his steps and try to keep the ninja legacy still alive. We all know that Ninjas make everything cooler.

“Seek” marks the directorial debut of Shane Kosugi, after a whole life in front of the camera on film and television, to bring us a story with old-fashioned flavor, that follows a Ninja agent from a ninja secret organization called Seek, who’s requested by his superior to save a fellow agent that’s been kidnapped by a rival organization and in the meantime, recover a new highly explosive liquid called “RDX@” to stop a ruthless Yakuza leader. But things won’t go as planned.

Shane shakes a good cocktail of action cinema, that taste as good as it looks, though its low budget, it manages to deliver some solid action sequences, with his brother Kane Kosugi shining as the lead.

The script might be too tangling sometimes, and some supporting characters, as the female ones, may not have the weigh on the plot that they might deserve, but the pace is good, and the setting of the story results really engaging, so the final result is really satisfactory, with no dull moments, while the post-credit scene hints for a possible sequel that I hope it happens.

The Kosugi legacy is in good hands