Rina Takeda in KUNOICHI

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19-year-old karate idol and actress Rina Takeda will be starring in Seiji Chiba’s upcoming action film KUNOICHI, playing a female ninja who rescues kidnapped women. This marks her third starring film role since making her debut in 2009.

Takeda took up karate at age 10 and went on to win several championships in the following years. She first caught the eye of filmmaker Fuyuhiko Nishi while he was producing the 2008 film “Shaolin Girl”, starring Kou Shibasaki. In June of that year, he contacted her via her blog and soon began training her for theatrical combat. In 2009, she starred in Nishi’s film “High Kick Girl!” In 2010, she co-starred with fellow karate expert Hina Tobimatsu in “KG: Karate Girl”.

In the new film, Takeda will play a female ninja named Kisaragi who attempts to rescue a group of women being held captive. It’s set sometime in the Sengoku period, during a time of fierce fighting between the Koga and Iga ninja clans.

Chiba is no stranger to the genre, having directed many ninja-related films, including “Sengoku: Iga no Ran” and “Nukenin”. The action director is Kensuke Sonomura, who’s previously worked on GANTZ and “The Machine Girl”.

Rina Takeda in KUNOICHI

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19-year-old karate idol and actress Rina Takeda will be starring in Seiji Chiba’s upcoming action film KUNOICHI, playing a female ninja who rescues kidnapped women. This marks her third starring film role since making her debut in 2009.

Takeda took up karate at age 10 and went on to win several championships in the following years. She first caught the eye of filmmaker Fuyuhiko Nishi while he was producing the 2008 film “Shaolin Girl”, starring Kou Shibasaki. In June of that year, he contacted her via her blog and soon began training her for theatrical combat. In 2009, she starred in Nishi’s film “High Kick Girl!” In 2010, she co-starred with fellow karate expert Hina Tobimatsu in “KG: Karate Girl”.

In the new film, Takeda will play a female ninja named Kisaragi who attempts to rescue a group of women being held captive. It’s set sometime in the Sengoku period, during a time of fierce fighting between the Koga and Iga ninja clans.

Chiba is no stranger to the genre, having directed many ninja-related films, including “Sengoku: Iga no Ran” and “Nukenin”. The action director is Kensuke Sonomura, who’s previously worked on GANTZ and “The Machine Girl”.