Rain’s position as an Asian superstar was re-confirmed by the slew of Asian journalists from Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and Philippines who attended the Asia Junket Press Conference for his film “Ninja Assassin”, held at Seoul’s Lotte Hotel on November 9. In the movie, shown to the media two days prior to the press conference, Rain plays a “chop-up murdering machine” — a character who endlessly cuts, slashes and slices up his enemies — but also manages to keep a warm heart. Rain’s action scenes as Raizo, the world’s best assassin who plots revenge against the Ninja organization which trained him to become a killing machine, turned out to be far more intense than seen in the teaser video. The amount of blood, meat and bone marrow splashing from the cruel chopping in the movie was worthy of a slasher movie and earned the film a no-teenagers-allowed, R-rating.

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