Textual Analysis of ‘Ninja Assassin’

First scene a darkened Warner Brothers Logo, trying to portray a dark film.

Second scenes a fading in from some sort of wind a legendary pictures logo, still portraying a dark film.

Another dark logo, this time of dark castle entertainment.

A weird unknown logo with no title appears.

A rap song in the background starts to play and we are opened up into the film starting with someone getting a tattoo but in the old fashioned style.

Camera arcs around body and begins to show front of the unknown person.

We see unknown characters and face and we are seen with him being in a lot of pain light very dark on his face.

Light starts to show and we can see sweat on his face, still loads of pain showing.

Japanese writing shows on the side of the screen next to the man’s face.

Japanese writing translates o reveal the location of the scene.

We are now shown another character who is obviously the tattooist he is showing a lot of precision while doing his work, writing has disappeared.

We are then shown the tattoo once again which has been progressed and more has been done since we first saw it.

Now we have 3 characters in the shot two which we have already seen two but a new character has been introduced, which this time is girl who is drinking an alcoholic drink.

The character we first saw now speaks and swears.

We are then introduced too the entire room which shows more characters most of which are sitting down.

We are now shown a medium shot of the character and then we see another character a girl offer a glass tray of some sort of white powder, more than likely drugs.

We are then introduced back to the first