SHAOLIN GIRL



Shôrin shôjo (Shaolin Girl)

Shibasaki Kou, the you-owed-me-a-zillion-dollars-ice-cold-too-serious-too-fierce look girl is starring in this movie. I am a fan of hers and would be interested to see how she performs in this movie. Some of the fight scenes are like from Tekken. By the way, they are going to make a Tekken movie. No kidding!

I watched Chocolate last weekend. It is indeed a great martial arts movie! Must watch! I love the market butchers and the four stories building edge fight scenes. This gal can kick twice with ease in mid air even at a very different and wide angle. It is extremely exciting to watch her in fighting mode, especially her deadly kicks. Awesome! If she improves further from here, she will become the immortal Bruce Lee soon one day! She makes Uma Thurman and Michelle Yeoh look mediocre by her standards. Hehe!

SYNOPSIS:
Produced by Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, CJ7), Shaolin Girl tells the story of a girl by the name of Rin, who is compelled to take over her late grandfather’s kung-fu dojo. She endures 3,000 days of brutal training at the Shaolin Martial Arts School in China before returning to her native Japan. But what awaits her is a dojo that lies in tatters and students who have abandoned the true discipline of Shaolin kung-fu.

While struggling to restore her grandfather’s school to its former glory and spread a genuine Shaolin philosophy, Rin attends university where she becomes the star member of the lacrosse team. While Rin’s exceptional physical abilities being a string of victories to the team, her teammates in turn come to her aid by helping her reestablish the dojo. Just as fortune seems to smile upon her, a dark incident from a past Rin knew nothing about rears its ugly head and throws her into a fantastic showdown with tremendous evil. Is the Shaolin Girl up to the challenge?

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