hoshimi asai

TATSUJIN WARRIORS: New Teaser And Poster Revealed For Koichi Sakamoto’s Latest Indie Action Ensemble

On Friday, Koichi Sakamoto fans get a double dose of action with two assets: The release of Shogun’s Ninja on the membership end of the Samurai VS Ninja YouTube channel, AND, the first official teaser footage for his latest independent action ensemble, Tatsujin Warriors. Actress and Asai-ryu Muchi Ken proponent, Hoshimi Asai (Versus, Murakumo: Ghost Agency), stars from a script by Ultraman veteran Juinichiro Ashiki (Ninja VS Shark), which sees our protagonist in the role of Hikaru, an ex-con fresh out of a five-year prison sentence for manslaughter. Upon returning to her once peaceful hometown, now besieged by a violent gang of hooligans, she forms a band of martial arts heroes to take her town back and restore order. The cast is comprised of a bevy of martial artists and performers bringing their own specialties to the table, including Takahide Kitagawa (Systema) and Ryuji Shirakawa (Aikido), Seiryukutsu Narashino (Nindo), four-time […]

TATSUJIN WARRIORS Debuts Poster For Hoshimi Asai’s Latest From Koichi Sakamoto

Lee B. Golden III

Legendary action auteur Koichi Sakamoto is breaking away a bit from dazzling superhero fanservice with his latest film, Tatsujin Warriors. The cast is led by actress and Asai-ryu Muchi Ken (Whip/Fist Karate) proponent, Hoshimi Asai who last hit our radar with 2023’s Murakumo: Ghost Agency. Asai stars from a script by Ultraman veteran Juinichiro Ashiki (Ninja VS Shark), which sees our protagonist in the role of Hikaru, an ex-con fresh out of a five-year prison for manslaughter. Upon returning to her once peaceful hometown, now besieged by a violent gang of hooligans, she forms a band of martial arts heroes to take her town back and restore order. Asai brings her Whip/Fist fighting trade to the table as well, bolstering the film’s martial arts authenticity even more with a cast also lists the following: Respective Systema and Aikido academics Takahide Kitagawa and Ryuji Shirakawa, Nindo expert Seiryukutsu Narashino, four-time Taido […]

MURAKUMO: GHOST AGENCY Teaser: Welcome Back, Hoshimi Asai!!!

Lee B. Golden III

I often look back at the films I’ve watched in the last four decades of my life, and wonder about where the stars of some of those films are now. One such film is Versus, the once-shining beacon of director Ryuhei Kitamura’s former production label, and a film that founded my adoration for the “Asia Extreme” wave of the early two-thousandsies. With several of those films stars continuing onward in the years since, I ever only hoped that would included actress and martial artist Hoshimi Asai, who has otherwise kept busy in her career in action direction. The same goes for the proliferation of the craft online handed down to her by her father and Karate legend Tetsuihiko Asai, although it’s only now that her recent return to action stardom has begun surfacing. For this, we turn to Murakumo: Ghost Agency, the latest debut from writer and director Mitsunori Harada […]