A glimpse at my neo-noir screenplay about a modern-day ninja called Shinobi that I'm developing at UCLA, based partially on 80s crime films, heist movies, Bond/spy flicks, and mythology/legends such as Goemon Ishikawa, The Monkey King, Hattori Hanzo, the Sarutobi clan, The Ten Sanada Braves, the legendary swordsmiths Masamune and his student Muramasa (and their blades the Juuchi Yosama - The 10,000 Cold Nights and the Yawarakai-Te - Tender Fists). A project I'm also developing with Peter Shinkoda, who plays the badass ninja/crimelord Nobu in Marvel's Daredevil on Netflix.