kiri professional killer

Legendary action auteur Sakamoto Koichi (Travelers, Red X Pink a.k.a. Girl’s Blood) knows what his fans love, and that statement is no less true than for his Tokusatsu following with a cast that is sure to get their attention. For this we look at actress Shaku Yumiko in her latest return to the action fray in fourteen years in the new assassin thriller, Kiri: Professional Killer, based on Hakusensha’s Young Animal Arashi publication from the work of manga author, Nishikawa Hideaki. With Sakamoto at the helm, I’m easily harkened back to films like Drive (1997) and Broken Path (2008), and if you’re familiar with Sakamoto‘s work DNA, you already know that he knows exactly what he’s doing, especially with Shaku on hand as a black belt purveyor of martial arts herself on top of lead roles in Sato Shinsuke’s 2001 thriller, The Princess Blade and Kitamura Ryuhei’s 2004 fantasy adaptation, […]

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