{"id":11609,"date":"2012-07-09T18:47:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T23:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/?p=11609"},"modified":"2012-07-09T18:47:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T23:47:05","slug":"silver-samurai-cast-in-the-wolverine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=11609","title":{"rendered":"Silver Samurai cast in THE WOLVERINE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11624\" title=\"silver-samurai\" src=\"https:\/\/xmenfilms.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/silver-samurai1.png?resize=594%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/upcoming-films\/the-wolverine\/\">THE WOLVERINE<\/a> has found its Silver Samurai!<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118056370.html?cmpid=RSS|News|LatestNews&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a> reports that <strong>Will Yun Lee<\/strong> (upcoming &#8220;Total Recall,&#8221; &#8220;Elektra&#8221;) has been cast as the villainous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silver_Samurai\" target=\"_blank\">Kenuichi Harada<\/a> in James Mangold&#8217;s film, which stars &#8220;X-Men&#8221; vet <strong>Hugh Jackman<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/09\/casting-updates-for-james-mangolds-the-wolverine\/\">recently announced<\/a> actors <strong>Hiroyuki Sanada<\/strong> (Shingen Yashida), <strong>Hal Yamanouchi<\/strong> (Yashida), <strong>Tao Okamoto<\/strong> (Mariko Yashida), <strong>Rila Fukushima<\/strong> (Yukio) and \u00a0<strong>Brian Tee<\/strong> (Minister of Justice, Norubo Mori).<\/p>\n<p>In the comics, Harada is the illegitimate son of Shingen Yashida. He is a Japanese mutant with the power to charge almost anything, most notably his katana, with mutant energy which enables it to slice through any known substance excluding adamantium. He also sports a suit based on traditional samurai armor, made of a silver metal, hence his name.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Image courtesy of \u00a9 Marvel Comics<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WOLVERINE has found its Silver Samurai! Variety reports that Will Yun Lee (upcoming &#8220;Total&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-the-wolverine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}