For three days beginning September 5th, ABC Family will air SAMURAI GIRL, a miniseries based on a popular young adult book series by Carrie Asai. It stars Jamie Chung (MTV REAL WORLD) as Heaven, a 19-year-old girl who discovers that her adoptive father is a yakuza boss and may have killed her brother. She leaves to train in the ways of the samurai and plot to bring down her father’s criminal empire with the help of American friends.
SAMURAI GIRL co-stars Anthony Wong (not to be confused with the popular Hong Kong actor of the same name), who played “Ghost” in THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS and appeared more prominently in the spin-off video game ENTER THE MATRIX. Curiously, all the Japanese roles are going to Chinese actors, a long tradition of Hollywood that is alive and strong given Zhang Ziyi’s prominent role in MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (2005).
Fight choreography for the series has been handled by Aaron Wu, a stunt veteran of TV and film whose only previous choreography credit is Cedric the Entertainer’s action comedy CODE NAME: THE CLEANER (2007).
