# Film intro… **URL:** \ **Category:** Movies\ **Tags:** japanese, action, fantasy, horror\ **Created:** [September 1, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/film-intro/396 "2022-09-01T23:23:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sid101](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sid101](https://filmfind.me/u/Sid101)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/film-intro/396/1 "2022-09-01T23:23:47Z")
Started watching a movie late at night on tv (think it may have been Film4) and only saw the intro. Maybe 5-10 of the start. The film was Japanese I think (with subtitles). A group of children were being trained by a middle aged master to become assassins in a wooden lodge in the bottom of a massive canyon. The film gives off this idyllic vibe as you see the youngsters training and enjoying their themselves and shortly their master gathers them to tell them that their training is almost complete…. The final phase of this training is to pair up with their favourite partner, the person they’re closes to or like the most (I think there are about 6-7 pairs) and then the master instructs them they must fight their partners to the death and then their training will be over! Chaos ensues with the children fighting their beloved friends and it is quite bloody and graphic violence. When there’s only one child assassin left from each pair the master instructs them to follow him out of the canyon towards their first mission leaving behind the lodge and their friends. This all happens within about 20 minutes of the films intro and I can’t remember the films title and never saw it on tv again. Please help… ---
**Author:** ![VHS\_Lives](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/41988e/32.png) [@VHS\_Lives](https://filmfind.me/u/VHS_Lives)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 1:23am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/film-intro/396/2 "2022-09-02T01:23:28Z")
ninja assassin? > **[Ninja Assassin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Assassin)** > > Ninja Assassin is a 2009 neo-noir martial arts film directed by James McTeigue, from a screenplay by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski. It stars Rain as a disillusioned assassin from a modern-day ninja clan, looking for retribution against his former mentor, played by Sho Kosugi. The cast also features Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, and Rick Yune. > The film was produced by The Wachowskis, Joel Silver and Grant Hill under Legendary Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment and Silver Pictures. It wa... ---
**Author:** ![Kickbobby](https://filmfind.me/user_avatar/filmfind.me/kickbobby/32/11_2.png) [@Kickbobby](https://filmfind.me/u/Kickbobby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/film-intro/396/3 "2022-09-02T01:52:23Z")
I think so, too. ![](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/2/28151de681c1ea5a8de8ca4e3466a668234aa9bc.jpeg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/_YEfMqdt2LM?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![JoeKing12001](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@JoeKing12001](https://filmfind.me/u/JoeKing12001)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/film-intro/396/4 "2022-09-03T13:45:18Z")
Can you give us an approximate year? Was it 70’s kung-fu or a modern recent film. ---
**Author:** ![Sid101](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sid101](https://filmfind.me/u/Sid101)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/film-intro/396/5 "2022-09-04T11:59:32Z")
Thank you for the reply’s. Definitely wasn’t Ninja Assassin. It looked like it was filmed in the 90’s and I think I saw it in the early 00’s. The fight scene between the pairs is outside the front of the lodge and takes place in the daylight. There is nobody there apart from the master and the children assassins. Hopefully this helps ---
**Author:** ![JoeKing12001](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@JoeKing12001](https://filmfind.me/u/JoeKing12001)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/film-intro/396/6 "2022-09-08T15:47:04Z")
Is it possible that only that scene is foreign and subbed and the rest is in English? Could the hero be Chuck Norris or someone like that? ---
**Author:** ![Sid101](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sid101](https://filmfind.me/u/Sid101)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/film-intro/396/7 "2022-09-12T20:46:00Z")
It is possible but I’m pretty sure there wasn’t a “big name hero” star. ---
**Author:** ![casspir](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@casspir](https://filmfind.me/u/casspir)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/film-intro/396/8 "2026-04-18T14:47:55Z")
“Azumi” (2003) Here is the older master and the **wooden lodge** behind him: ![Clipboard_04-18-2026_01_](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/2/217fe9998fa45ef262ac1cceb671a5baf1e3e351.jpeg) And here are the young trainee assassins: ![Clipboard_04-18-2026_2_](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3d67ec659789193bb6f6ab06791080ca217aa961.jpeg) IMDb: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384819/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384819/) Detailed Wikipedia plot summary: > **[Azumi (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azumi_(film))** > > Azumi (あずみ) is a 2003 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Ryûhei Kitamura and starring Aya Ueto, Yuma Ishigaki, Shun Oguri, Hiroki Narimiya, Takatoshi Kaneko, Eita, Shogo Yamaguchi and Joe Odagiri. Azumi is a live-action adaptation of Yū Koyama's manga series of the same title, and was followed by the sequel Azumi 2: Death or Love in 2005. > In feudal Japan, old master Jiji and a survivor of the Tokugawa shogunate converse after surviving a brutal battle, with Jiji asked by the Tokugawa Shogunat... You can watch the full movie on YouTube here: [![](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/d/df84eae1a8e09aab41503ccf9d7b926088032560.jpeg "Azumi 2003") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmclxr9Q_m8)