{"id":16363,"date":"2013-11-21T03:11:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T03:11:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-21T03:11:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T03:11:59","slug":"Keanu-Reeves-stars-in-Ronin-47-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=16363","title":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves stars in \u2018Ronin 47?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The director of the Keanu Reeves 3-D film \u201c47 Ronin\u201d says he hopes his adaptation of a true Japanese story becomes a Hollywood blockbuster.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Film director Carl Rinsch, Reeves and co-stars appeared together in front of a Tokyo audience on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tR8soF7n0Hg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The film is based on an actual historical event during the Edo Period known as \u201cChushingura.\u201d<\/strong> It involved a lord who was wrongfully put to death and his followers \u2014 ronin \u2014 who sought revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Rinsch said he took on the film subject and sat down with Keanu Reeves about two years ago. <strong>They wondered how they were going to take on a popular Japanese tale and do it justice.<\/strong> Rinsch said they decided to make the story their own, making \u201cit a Hollywood blockbuster and see it through that lens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese themes of revenge, loyalty, perseverance, were things we knew from the very beginning were universal,\u201d said Rinsch, who is making his directorial feature debut with the film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada stars as the main supporting character, Kuranosuke Oishi, a leader of the men.<\/strong> Sanada said that during the filming Reeves became more and more of a samurai, while the character he played became more \u201cwild\u201d in style.<\/p>\n<p>Sanada said Reeves and himself hoped to depict the friendship of two characters, which transcended borders and social positions, in the film.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves said \u201c47 Ronin\u201d is a story where people \u201cshare this journey to reclaim their land, their honor, their way. It was very special to me to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves, who grew up attracted to martial arts movies, makes his directorial debut this year with the martial arts action movie <strong>\u201cMan of Tai Chi.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zd5WUn2oM8Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film \u201c47 Ronin\u201d premiers in Japan on Dec. 6 and opens in U.S. theaters on Dec. 25.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the Keanu Reeves 3-D film \u201c47 Ronin\u201d says he hopes his adaptation of a true Japanese story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The director of the Keanu Reeves 3-D film \u201c47 Ronin\u201d says he hopes his adaptation of a true Japanese story","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":121,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}