![]() Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Woody Harrelson, and directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, ‘Kate’ follows a burned assassin’s furious pursuit of one last self-appointed job.” As her body swiftly deteriorates, Kate forms an unlikely bond with the teenage daughter of one of her past victims. But when she uncharacteristically blows an assignment targeting a member of the yakuza in Tokyo, she quickly discovers she’s been poisoned, a brutally slow execution that gives her less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her killers. The official synopsis for “Kate” from Netflix reads: “Meticulous and preternaturally skilled, Kate is the perfect specimen of a finely tuned assassin at the height of her game. audiences for directing the “Snow White and the Hunstman” sequel “The Huntsman: Winter’s War.” The movie was helmed by French director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, perhaps best known to U.S. That doesn't work.Mary Elizabeth Winstead has already showed that she’s more than capable of leading an action movie, thanks to her supporting role as Huntress in the DC Comics tentpole “Birds of Prey,” and now she’s getting the star vehicle she deserves with Netflix’s ticking-clock assassin thriller “ Kate.” Winstead stars in the eponymous role opposite Woody Harrelson. So you can't have guns in Japan and walk around and shoot people. But otherwise everything has been really, really, really researched. That's the big lie about "Kate" is that all those people have guns, which they don't. The gun laws in Japan are so strict that you actually can't really own guns, so that's for the style and the heightened aspect of it. Nothing was really heightened, besides the fact that they have tons of guns, which is not true. Everything was heavily, heavily researched, and my team was very, very serious about it, from the Kabuki play to everything. We had a Japanese specialist on kimono, just on how to tie the bow and put the kimono on. A lot of my crew was Japanese, as a matter of fact. We were very, very serious about studying. When you see the plates of the cars, the Yakuza use very specific plates and very specific cars. And then we studied the organization, what's the relationship between people and what they do and what they don't do, what they wear and what they don't wear. For example, in Tokyo it's a republic, so it's a different family. We were very serious about studying the Yakuza organization. What research did you do for depicting the Yakuza? And if someone could actually try to coerce an organization like that, then it would be very profitable, but it's not an easy thing to do, but that's also what the movie kind of talks about. He has to be the only upstanding person in the film outside of Ani, who is the true hero of the film. He's someone that made a lot of mistakes and regrets every single one of them. I present someone that is somewhat villainous, somewhat responsible for something bad and is a kingpin of a Japanese gangster organization, but he turned out to be a family man. That's the perfect example of how I want to deal with that. I think one of the things that you would see in the film is in the character of Kijima, for example, who is portrayed as the kingpin and the Yakuza boss, and ends up being the only upstanding man in this whole story. I was like, "Man, you look like Ripley, you look like a young Ripley." It happened as we were shooting it.Ībsolutely. ![]() And then when we started to shoot her in the jacket with the short hair, we were like, "Hold on, wait, wait a second." Mary and I, we started to talk about it. When we started to shoot, she had long hair in the film. Originally, it wasn't that jacket, and then it became that jacket. ![]() Was the jacket, though, an intentional nod to " Alien"? So now you see it, you're kind of like, well, it's not the same thing. It's going to be like that." But they haven't seen it. So it's like, "I haven't seen the movie, but you know what else is like this? 'D.O.A.' or 'Crank.' It's going to be like this. Oh, she has 24 hours to live and she'd been poisoned. No, no, it's pretty good, but I think it's a very different kind of movie. I hadn't seen it until I heard it referenced to " Kate.
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