Produced by director Suzuki Masayuki and starring SMAP boy-band star
Shingo Katori (as Hattori), this films aims squarely at mainstream
family audiences and thoroughly succeeds in providing a well-polished
and remarkably cast action tale.
The character of "Ninja
Hattori-kun" is well-established in children's anime and appears
regularly in television, manga and software productions. Hattori is a
pure-hearted yet highly trained and formidable ninja whose contemporary
adventures often include important humanitarian lesson for the child or
children likewise caught up in the story's action. This live-action
version is no different and although the film casts the relatively older
Shingo as Hattori, the narrative still has him befriend Kenichi, an 8
year old boy struggling with issues of isolation and inferiority.
Shingo's Hattori is SO pure-hearted and urban-naive (this is his first
adventure away from his father's mountaintop recluse) that despite
differences in stature Hattori and his younger companion basically speak
on equal terms.
Hattori is literally culled from a completely
different era, speaking archaic Japanese to the surprise of those who
hear him, and is completely befuddled by things such as rice cookers,
refrigeration and neon. Thus in many ways Kenichi helps Hattori
acclamate to 21st century life while Hattori instructs Kenichi in
lessons of confidence and defending oneself.
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