Jung Ji Hoon * 정지훈 * 鄭智薰 * (aka Rain/Bi / 비 / ピ) I [Upcoming Drama 2024] Red Swan

[willenette]

hmmm...

the F1 Rock's Singapore was shown yesterday at MYX Philippines

9:00pm Manila time.

I was actually shocked to see it, it was pure luck that i change the channel then saw RAIN and WEBBER!!

Talk about being lucky.

Hi gee=gee, Oh, you're really lucky that you were able to catch that segment - So happy to know that Channel had shown that event & that fighting exhibition of both of them.

[Guest angelordevil]

hmmm...

the F1 Rock's Singapore was shown yesterday at MYX Philippines

9:00pm Manila time.

I was actually shocked to see it, it was pure luck that i change the channel then saw RAIN and WEBBER!!

Talk about being lucky.

wwowwwwwwwwwwwwww, so lucky

can catch him by accident.

I know this feeling, sometimes when I see him in TVB8, it's so wonderful.

ESPNSTAR F1 Rocks / Rain VS. Mark Webbe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTmzTw_AJGc...player_embedded

[anjjo]

OMG I totally agree, I also started thinking of his dance when he started that first pose

the dance I Thought of is "Touch ya" and the ending dance of "It's Raining"

hahahaha

but am really impressed by his Martial Arts skills, If someone saw this and didn't know Rain , they will probably think that he is a professional Martial artist

And am loving his hair style in that Video , He should have done it like this for his concert hehehehe

We've been so engrossed with his dancing, erm, fighting skills, that I forgot to mention that he has improved his English, tho, I think it was scripted, his diction is quite clear and easy to understand. I hope he will gain more self-confidence, but who will not be nervous if he will be interviewed live. Lets give him a chance, he is just a beginner and who knows, we might be surprised later. Another bonus at the video: Mark Webber was all covered up while Rain displayed his perfect form and I like his hairstyle too.

gee-gee, wish it will be replayed same time tonite.

[jinijung]

The M/C Review: 'Ninja Assassin' is bloody good fun

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 By Drew McWeeny

James McTiegue, director of "V For Vendetta," is back in the saddle for the new Warner Bros. action movie "Ninja Assassin," and the good news is that it's an energetic, gore-soaked bit of fun.

It's Teflon, slick and without substance, and you may have a hard time describing the film's plot two hours after you see it, but I'm not sure I would hold that against the film. It's so aggressive about delivering a series of crazy set pieces that I admire it for it's single-mindedness, and there's at least one major choice made by McTiegue that I really like.

Hats off to Warner Bros. for taking a chance on Rain as a lead actor. Although I'm one of the most ardent supporters of "Speed Racer," I wasn't convinced that Rain really worked as a lead. Here, he's absolutely charismatic enough to pull it off, and although it's a very simple character arc overall, Rain plays enough shade and nuance to make me think he can handle even more the next time out.

Naomie Harris ("Miami Vice," "Pirates Of The Caribbean") stars as an analyst for an intelligence agency who is convinced that she's uncovered proof of a shadowy organization of ninjas who work as paid assassins around the world. Her investigation eventually brings her face to face with Raizo (Rain), who is the one member of that organization to ever successfully walk away. Together, they go on the run and have to face down the killers who are chasing them.

The end. It really is just that simple. There's some stuff about Raizo's childhood, and some stuff about the people Harris works for, but most of the film is a chase, one set piece to the next, and on that level, it really works. McTiegue's best decision in the entire film is to shoot the ninjas as monsters and to shoot the film as a horror movie. That way, it gives him permission to keep them offscreen except for glimpses, and it keeps them from feeling ridiculous. Cranking up the gore to a ridiculous degree also works in the film's favor. The action choreography is good but it's also studio-safe, meaning you don't get the same kind of kinetic "did they just kill that guy?" thrills you get from Thai action movies, so they ladle on the CGI gore as a distraction.

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The strangest thing about Naomie Harris so far is how she vanishes into each movie. I watched this whole film wondering who the female lead was, and when I saw her name in the closing credits it surprised me. She's a chameleon. Overall, the movie comes down to the chemistry she has with Rain, and that works. The two of them make an engaging couple on the run, and it's smart that they never try to turn her into an richard simmons-kicking fighter. Considering how polished everyone in the movie is, they'd have to fake it with her, and it would just come across as silly. Bonus points also for the casting of Sho Kosugi as the mentor leader of the ninja cult. He almost single-handedly defined ninjas onscreen in the '80s, so it is appropriate to cast him here as the guy passing the torch.

I do think the film is narratively thin, but J. Michael Straczynski said he rewrote Matthew Sand's script in less than a week so that they could make a start date. I'd believe it. You've seen most of this before. It's just that McTiegue shoots it with a vigor and a joy that is almost palpable. I get the feeling he really enjoyed shooting the film, and it's nice that he and the Wachowskis seem to be developing a working method that makes all of them happy and that results in solid B-movie-with-A-list-values films like this one. It feels like an origin story, and I'd love to see Rain return in a series of films as Raizo works on an international scale.

If you're into crazy violent blood-soaked revenge stories, this is going to make you very happy on Thanksgiving weekend. Now if we could only find a way to cross this movie with "Old Dogs." I'd love to see John Travolta making lame baby jokes only to have Rain cut him in half with a giant sword. That would be a very happy Thanksgiving, indeed.

"Ninja Assassin" opens nationwide November 25th.

source

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-moti...bloody-good-fun

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The M/C Review: 'Ninja Assassin' is bloody good fun

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 By Drew McWeeny

James McTiegue, director of "V For Vendetta," is back in the saddle for the new Warner Bros. action movie "Ninja Assassin," and the good news is that it's an energetic, gore-soaked bit of fun.

It's Teflon, slick and without substance, and you may have a hard time describing the film's plot two hours after you see it, but I'm not sure I would hold that against the film. It's so aggressive about delivering a series of crazy set pieces that I admire it for it's single-mindedness, and there's at least one major choice made by McTiegue that I really like.

Hats off to Warner Bros. for taking a chance on Rain as a lead actor. Although I'm one of the most ardent supporters of "Speed Racer," I wasn't convinced that Rain really worked as a lead. Here, he's absolutely charismatic enough to pull it off, and although it's a very simple character arc overall, Rain plays enough shade and nuance to make me think he can handle even more the next time out.

... skip...

"Ninja Assassin" opens nationwide November 25th.

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http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-moti...bloody-good-fun

Hi jini, thanks for sharing another reviews about NA & RAIN. So happy to read so many nice things said on him. BTW, November 25? I thought it's moved to November 26 -

[Guest angelordevil]

09-09-30 Tous Les Jours store Pics

source // Blog.naver+ tomi's blog + Rainy－日記 ( Noriko )

posted @ rain cloud by linh

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09-09-30 Tous Les Jours store Pics

source // Blog.naver+ tomi's blog + Rainy－日記 ( Noriko )

posted @ rain cloud by linh

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Hi Thu, thanks for posting this map of the bakeshop in Korea. I hope this pastry shop will expand soon to some Asian countries. I really hope that there's one here in my side so I could at least try out some of their pastries, which RAIN is endorsing. Looking at the photos you posted again, all these pastries are so yummy - & the store looks so cozy & very tidy.

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*** Thanks Thu for posting this NR photo with his signature. Nice & cool!

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Rain Bi @ Nature Republic store

source:Rainy－日記 ( Noriko )

from:ratoka1@rainhk

[Guest Kicia]

09.29.09: Six To Five Mens and Women’s Underwear Sets

Men’s Set: 100 (hip size 95 cm )105 (hip size 100 cm )/ a Black boxer shorts & Beige briefs

Women’s Set: 90 (hip size 90 cm ) , 95 (hip size 95 cm )/ Beige & Black briefs

Credit: Rain-Cloud

[Guest ~~M!sTY~~]

ThanKs willenette

*GoD* Damn !t ...........

He !s S!mpLy !rresisT!ble !n Nature Republic store P!c

BTW

N!ce oF you gee-gee

But Don't LecTure Me aGa!n..!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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09.29.09: Six To Five Mens and Women’s Underwear Sets

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Men’s Set: 100 (hip size 95 cm )105 (hip size 100 cm )/ a Black boxer shorts & Beige briefs

Women’s Set: 90 (hip size 90 cm ) , 95 (hip size 95 cm )/ Beige & Black briefs

Credit: Rain-Cloud

Hi Kicia, thanks for posting the photos. Wow, I want to have them because of the name brand printed on it.

[Guest strawberry-]

LOLS at 625 undies... only have 2 size? im afraid my hip dont fit to the undies, J/K :blush: wahahaha... but again 625 stuffs is too expensive for my pocket.

090929 ESPNSTAR _F1 Rocks Singapore Rain VS. Mark Webber

A clear version with Ninja Assassin's clip in the beginning but without narrator's descriptions in English of Rain and Mark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTmzTw_AJGc

Credit: ESPNSTAR.com.cn // scorpiolabi@youtube

LOTTE OCTOBER WALLPAPER

credit: LOTTE ll RainHK ll rain-cloud

[Guest ~~M!sTY~~]

w h o O o a

CUTE

Ra!n you are So Freak!nG H o o O o o T ............. **D!es**

H!s Ha!r !s aDorabLe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ThanKs strawberry

[Guest gee-gee]

We've been so engrossed with his dancing, erm, fighting skills, that I forgot to mention that he has improved his English, tho, I think it was scripted, his diction is quite clear and easy to understand. I hope he will gain more self-confidence, but who will not be nervous if he will be interviewed live. Lets give him a chance, he is just a beginner and who knows, we might be surprised later. Another bonus at the video: Mark Webber was all covered up while Rain displayed his perfect form and I like his hairstyle too.

gee-gee, wish it will be replayed same time tonite.

I believe [V] Philippines will air it Wednesday 9:00 pm.

Star Sports aired it yesterday, 11:00 pm. Manila Time. Dunno if replays will be shown.

Although I tot he's going to perform but the stint with WEBBER's pretty COOL!!

Nice moves he got going there... Can't wait for Ninja Assasin!! and the HAIR?! Kinda' hatin' when I first saw it, but RAIN, Rocks it!!

JEEZ!! I'm Sorta' obssesing here!!! :blush:

Forgive me!! :blush:

Anyone knows if NINJA Assasin will be shown in Philippines?

[Guest gee-gee]

09.29.09: Six To Five Mens and Women’s Underwear Sets

Credit: Rain-Cloud

**And I'm into naughty mode**

harhar!!

Pls VOTE for our Dear RAIN on CHANNEL [V]'s Battle of the Pop!!!

[willenette]

I believe [V] Philippines will air it Wednesday 9:00 pm.

Star Sports aired it yesterday, 11:00 pm. Manila Time. Dunno if replays will be shown.

Although I tot he's going to perform but the stint with WEBBER's pretty COOL!!

Nice moves he got going there... Can't wait for Ninja Assasin!! and the HAIR?! Kinda' hatin' when I first saw it, but RAIN, Rocks it!!

JEEZ!! I'm Sorta' obssesing here!!! :blush:

Forgive me!! :blush:

Anyone knows if NINJA Assasin will be shown in Philippines?

gee=gee, ye, this will also be shown in the Phil. the same release date as of US.

[Guest gee-gee]

gee=gee, ye, this will also be shown in the Phil. the same release date as of US.

can you give me the exact date...

thanks!!!

[Guest mimi27]

Six To Five 21 event

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6to5.co.kr

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Hi mimi, thanks for posting these photos. Nice & cool! Here's another one............

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Source: cyworld/six_2_five

Credit: bi's kingdom / janejz-Sexy Bi

can you give me the exact date...

thanks!!!

Hi gee=gee, it will be on November 26.

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*** Thanks Phoenix for sharing all these reviews about the movie.

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30 Sep 2009 - REVIEW: NINJA ASSASSIN

Ninja Assassin features gigabytes of blood being shed on screen.

Is this the way it's going to be from now on? We're done with on-set blood, replacing it with rendered geysers of pixels? There are a lot of problems with Ninja Assassin - hell, the movie is a problem - but the thing that kept getting to me was the spurts of bright red digital blood that made all of the ninjas appear to be from Toon Town.

I really enjoyed James McTeigue's V For Vendetta, so I'm baffled as to how he possibly john teshed up a movie as obvious as Ninja Assassin. Well, I'm baffled as to the process, not as to the mistakes. The mistakes are right there on screen. They start with the decision to shoot every action scene in maddening close-up in the dark; at first I was giving him the benefit of the doubt - the concept must be that the ninja are so fast, so invisible, that he wanted to give just the impression of action at first. But then the movie keeps up the impenetrable darkness. At one point I wondered whether there even was a lighting department on the damn crew.

The next big mistake was making the story about an international paramilitary police force hunting down ninjas. Every time the story switched to the offices of Europol, where a spunky young researcher (played by the excruciating Naomi Harris) becomes convinced that ninja clans still perform assassinations in the modern day, I began to feel woozy. 'Why do I care about this?' I wondered, and the answer is that I simply don't. And what's worse is that this storyline leads to a confrontation between ninjas and a heavily armored brigade with bazookas and air support - when I'm watching a ninja movie I want to see ninjas john teshing mini cooper up, not getting hit with bazooka shells. I mean, there's a place in the cinematic universe for a movie where a soldier atop a humvee uses a mounted machine gun to mow down ninjas; I'm just not sure it's in a movie where my allegiance is to the ninjas.

Surprisingly, the least annoying thing in Ninja Assassin is pop star Rain, playing a ninja who has betrayed his clan for reasons too insipid to list here. He's actually effective and good in the role, even if the movie feels the need to drop a joke that he looks like he belongs in a boy band.

There's good stuff in Ninja Assassin, but all of it comes before the credits sequence. The opening prologue is a kick richard simmons slaughter of yakuza - lots of body parts digitally removed from the trunks of Japanese gangsters - and it's moderately well lit and shot. After that everything goes to hell; there's a good action scene here and there that manages to break free from the murk, but even those scenes tend to be undercut by the sheer amounts of digital chicanry going on. Here's the problem with a martial arts movie like this: 70% of the enjoyment of these films is seeing wildly talented people performing acrobatic, exciting and seemingly dangerous and painful stunts and fights. When everything in the movie is half cartoon, you lose that completely. Watching Rain jump over obviously CGI weapons is just not exciting. When you can follow an action scene it has no weight, no heft, no meaning. All of a sudden a CGI chain reaches out and draws a fountain of CGI blood from the head of a guy who just turned from a CGI shadow into a real live extra in pajamas.

I really wanted to like Ninja Assassin. It's been too long since we've had a good ninja movie, and the idea of this film sparking a resurgence of the subgenre filled me with excitement. There are a lot of talented martial artists plying their trade on movie screens across the globe, and Ninja Assassin's multi-ethnic view of ninjas seemed to open the door for all sorts of people to don the black pajamas. But the film, which is inert and mostly boring and without any sort of compelling throughline at all (seriously, you can walk in and out of this movie and miss just about nothing. It makes the Europol scenes all the more frustrating that the spine of the story is absolute nonsense), has probably killed the ninja film for yet another decade.

4 out of 10

By Devin Faraci

source: http://chud.com/articles/articles/2....NIN...SSIN/Page1.html

credit: Phoenix-RAIN Germany

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30 Sep 2009 - Fantastic Fest Review: Ninja Assassin

I’m not sure what bothers me more – bad movies or bad movies that show a touch of potential. At least with a blatantly bad movie the skill level is consistent throughout, but with a potentially good movie it sends me out of the theater wondering who exactly messed things up and why no one saw the mistakes as they were being made. That frustration is alive and well with Ninja Assassin.

An orphan named Raizo (Rain), raised and trained by an ancient ninja clan, cuts a bunch of heads off while an investigator from Europol, Mika (Naomie Harris) tracks down the group in connection with several high-ranking assassinations.

Ninja Assassin is a great movie that gets dragged down by some serious problems. It’s fun, an interesting take on a dormant genre, and there is all sorts of blood being spilled and bodies being sliced apart. Still, it suffers from some of the same pitfalls that other blockbusters seem to be facing lately. Hence the frustration. How can a movie with such promise and so many good elements end up falling short?

The beginning of the mystery of what went wrong with this movie starts with the writing, cuts right through some of the action sequences and stops dead with the acting.

For starters, some parts of the script are decent, especially for a martial arts film. The story is simple enough, but gets overly complicated by the Europol section. For the most part, the training and back story for Raizo is solid stuff, telling a great story of a young boy that is trained to become a killer through harsh punishment for mistakes and clever zen koans spouted by ninja film legend Sho Kusugi playing Lord Ozunu. The concept of having ninjas in the present-day is a fantastic one, but the execution is lacking because the story just isn’t there. The idea of ninja clans being hired by all world governments to carry out assassinations is laughable considering that there aren’t a huge swath of political assassinations period let alone a ton of important people left chopped into three pieces in a bloody pile. If there was, you’d think the public would catch on fairly quickly.

Beyond the blending of a great story with a terrible one, the writing also gave me a lot of opportunities to cringe and shift awkwardly in my seat. The dialog is soap opera-worthy at places, and it doesn’t help that the actors struggle to say even the simplest of lines. It’s noble to want to take the genre to the big budget realm and make it darker, but by doing so the film opens itself up to unintentional laughs and schlocky dialog told by stiff actors. A better writer could have really elevated the genre while keeping in a ton of great action, but apparently that just wasn’t in the cards.

Speaking of the action, it ranges from the amazing to the poorly-lit and frantic. The opening scene is one that people will be talking about a lot because of the shock and awe violence that starts the flick off on the right foot. Unfortunately, it doesn’t stay on track as two of the main sequences are too dark, and McTeigue and his cinematographer refuse to keep the camera still long enough to really admire the fighting that’s going on. The bulk of the action is great – although the composite CGI blood is downright awful most of the time – but even a few missteps coupled with the bad dialog and acting cuts the only leg the movie has to stand on right in half.

As for the acting, it’s pretty clear at this point how I felt about it. Rain just isn’t an actor. He’s also not a martial artist. Both of those facts are painfully clear in this movie. He’s owed a certain amount of respect for some of the fighting that he does, but it’s nowhere near the level of martial artistry that I’ve come to expect from modern fighting movies. He’s acrobatic, but not a good fighter. I understand he’s at a disadvantage because he’s not a native English speaker, but that’s just the pitfalls of bad casting, especially in a time when moviegoers seem more than happy to read a few subtitles on screen as long as wanton violence follows shortly.

Naomie Harris (who no one will recognize as the witch woman from Pirates of the Caribbean) clearly cannot act without a fake Haitian accent. She vomits out most of her lines and seems especially enthusiastic about the cheesy bits. But in her defense (and trust me, she needs it), her character is little more than Ms. Exposition who has passages that explain what’s going on and end with a bland question that deserves a glib, slightly dramatic one-liner in response.

On the logical side of things, I just can’t understand how physics staying constant is so difficult in some films. A lot of the ninja fighting varies in a nonsensical way. They are built up to be invincible in the beginning which makes things tricky as the film goes on. Plus, for people with what amount to super powers (apparently they can track by scent and teleport between shadows), they become complete idiots when it’s convenient for the story. However, the most irritating thing involving the ninjas is that they are incredible killing machines unless there’s a main character amongst the group. Bodies get slashed in half with delightful disregard, but the chaos seems to reign all around main characters instead of on top of their heads. So remember that. Ninjas are the most effective killing machines known to man unless you turn the lights on in the room or if you’re a main character. Everyone else will be hacked to bits within seconds, but you will be left to stand around or make your slow escape.

That’s not to say the film is terrible. It’s decent, but not unwatchable. Some of the fighting sequences are fantastic, and as I previously mentioned, Raizo’s training and back story is strong – hearkening back to some of the ninja films of the late 1970s and 1980s as well as a few nods to the classic training montages from kung fu films. Beyond the usual friendship/love/betrayal/revenge aspect of that story, the scenes work really well because there’s very little talking in them, and when someone does talk it’s usually Sho Kusugi who knows how to deliver those genius lines of faux-wisdom that read like a fortune cookie written by a Guilo.

The look of the film is also stunning from time to time. In particular, a scene in a bamboo forest in the rain looks absolutely beautiful both in depicting the natural setting and in shooting the close up shots of the actors. Some shots of the city are also nice, but for the bulk of the beauty comes in the shots of the compound where Raizo trains and grows up. A lot of the modern day stuff is pretty standard, and some of the fight sequences (like one where ninjas are playing in traffic) are barely visible.

So there’s a balance here. Two segments of one movie, one being strong, the other being weak. It works in a Yin Yang sort of way, but not in a filmmaking sort of way. I rolled my eyes about as many times as I clapped my hands, squinted into the darkness as many times as I opened them wide, and scratched my head almost as much as I smiled at some great ninja action. But that’s the problem. Ninja Assassin is ultimately frustrating because it hints at moments of greatness and squanders any good will it earns. When it’s stripped down and simple, it works, and we get some blood in our eyes, but too much of it is over-produced, under-written, and depends far too much on bad CGI and quick edit camera work.

By Dr. Cole Abaius

source: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/re....-ni...assin-colea.php

credit: Phoenix - RAIN Germany/Sexy Bi