Taglines: He’s trapped in a world where killing is an art and revenge is an obsession.
The Hunted movie storyline. Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert) is on a business trips to Nagoya, as a computer-chip executive from New York, when he meets a beautiful and mysterious Kirina (Joan Chen). Later, he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, inadvertently interrupting an assassination by a feared Ninja-cult. As he is now the only man to have seen the face of the cult’s warrior-leader and lived, he soon realizes that he is facing a markedly foreshortened life-expectancy.
Teaming up with a friendly samurai couple, on a two-centuries-old blood-feud with the Ninja, he struggles to survive. Finally, recuperating on an island-fortress, he learns swordsmanship, and perhaps, a little about courage, honor, love, and loyalty. The requisite final confrontation is rife with bloody swordplay and spectacular martial-arts action sequences.
The Hunted is a 1995 American martial-arts thriller film written and directed by J. F. Lawton and starring Christopher Lambert, John Lone, Joan Chen, Yoshio Harada and Yoko Shimada. Lambert plays Paul Racine, an American businessman who by accident earns the wrath of a ninja clan led by Lone’s character, Kinjo. The film was shot in Nagoya, Japan, and Vancouver, Canada.
The Hunted (1995)
Directed by: J. F. Lawton
Starring: Christopher Lambert, John Lone, Joan Chen, Yoshio Harada, Yôko Shimada, Mari Natsuki, Tak Kubota, Masumi Okada, Tatsuya Irie, Michael Warren, Bart Anderson
Screenplay by: J. F. Lawton
Production Design by: Phil Dagort
Cinematography by: Jack Conroy
Film Editing by: Robert A. Ferretti, Eric Strand
Costume Design by: Rita Riggs
Set Decoration by: Lin MacDonald
Art Direction by: Sheila Haley
Music by: Leonard Eto, Motofumi Yamaguchi
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody ninja violence and some sexuality.
Distributed by: Universal Studios
Release Date: February 25, 1995
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