Wolverine in Japan

Rating: 7/10 (26 July 2013)

I saw "The Wolverine", starring Hugh Jackman-Les Miserables-2012, Swordfish; Tao Okamoto-a Japanese actress in her first movie; Svetlana Khodchenkova-a Russian actress in her 2nd English movie, her 1st being Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy-2011 and Will Yun Lee-Red Dawn-2012, Elektra.
This is based on an early comic book storyline that centered around the adventures of Wolverine in Japan. The movie starts in WW2, where Hugh, aka Wolverine, saves the life of a Japanese soldier. Then the movie shifts to somewhere right after 'X-Men: the Last Stand', because Hugh is having dreams of Jean Grey-and if you remember, he killed her in that film. Hugh then gets a message to go to Japan because the soldier he saved years ago wants to see him. The soldier has become a big industrialist and is one of the most powerful men in Japan. The only problem is, he is dying and giving his fortune to his granddaughter, Tao. That does not sit well with a lot of people, including Tao's relatives because they were skipped over in the inheritance windfall, so lots of people are trying to kill Tao. Hugh comes to the rescue but runs into a mutant , Svetlana, that goes by the name of Viper and she messes with Hugh's healing factor. Will plays a boyhood friend/bodyguard to Tao. There is a really good fight atop a bullet train-I think it travels around 200-300 mph-there are ninjas-to be expected in Japan-the Silver Samurai and Hugh performs open-heart surgery on.....Well, you have to see it to believe it. There is a scene that sets up the next X-Men movie, right after the credits start, but there is not a scene at the very end. It is rated "PG-13" for violence, language and sexuality-no nudity except partial nudity of Hugh in a bath tub-and has a running time of 2 hours & 6 minutes. I enjoyed it and I would buy it on Blu-Ray.