The slashing ninja! Karen Fukuhara is Katana

[Guts]

 

[Gee]

 

[DeadStroke]

wow

 

[rashad]

Damn she is so hot. Right up there with Margot for me.

 

[Abudefduf]

Some stuff about Katana from the newer articles. Spoilers, I guess? lol

Katana will have her Soultaker sword and yes, she speaks to it.

The back of Katana’s jacket says “Soultaker”, and her costume is covered with calligraphy that means “A Thousand Years,” “Soultaker,” and “For Him I Weep.”

Karen Fukuhara, who plays Katana, said she read through the Katana comics and Birds of Prey to prepare, but she added, “I come from a very Japanese family so it wasn’t that hard to understand her as a person.”

To audition for Katana, Fukhara had to perform a monologue and then do both a martial arts demonstration and a sword fighting demonstration.

Katana’s backstory involving her family isn’t explicitly addressed in the film, but the soul of her husband is in her sword and she does have conversations with it.

Katana has a strong bond with Rick Flagg.

I didn’t follow-up with why on Earth Enchantress is wearing an ankh then because obviously, cultural accuracy wasn’t a major concern for this character. But it was for Katana. The Suicide Squad was shortly after the debacle in Lucy where it was pointed out the words on the wall were just blown-up Chinese take-out menus. Hawley said they brought in two interpreters to triple-check their work:

“[Katana] is wearing ‘Soultaker’ on the back of her jacket. Every bit of calligraphy means something. ‘A Thousand Years,’ ‘Soultaker,’ ‘For Him I Weep,’ and then we've got the modern thing with, again, David's military entries on the belt. So it's always about the man that's in her sword, and all of her is about bleeding for him. We got it done by two interpreters in different places, because -- that was the first thing. We didn't want it saying, ‘Free Sushi’ or whatever.”

Hawley also confirmed that Katana was — at one point — in a full leather get-up instead of the midriff-baring costume she ended up in.

“When you read Katana, she's a widow and I thought sort of in her mid to late 30s. Then you get this young 20-year-old coming in, so it's tailoring it for her as well and making her role work. She's more like some of those kids in Tokyo -- we're seeing her from the Yakuza and that heritage that she has. So we kind of found a modern-day equivalent and tapped into that a bit.”

 

[BlueLanternKal]

Some stuff about Katana from the newer articles. Spoilers, I guess? lol

Enchantress is wearing an ankh because June isn't the Enchantress. She's a possessed host. Do your ****ing research people.

 

[Abudefduf]

The quote is taken out of context. Apparently, Enchantress' design is based on North American mythology, but she's wearing an ankh which is an Egyptian symbol.
I don't give a crap but I think that's what the author of the article was trying to say.

 

[Guts]

This is the first time I heard of Enchantress wearing an ankh.

 

[BlueLanternKal]

The quote is taken out of context. Apparently, Enchantress' design is based on North American mythology, but she's wearing an ankh which is an Egyptian symbol.
I don't give a crap but I think that's what the author of the article was trying to say.

Oh, ok. Cool. Then yeah that's kind of misplaced.

 

[KillerWolf]

The quote is taken out of context. Apparently, Enchantress' design is based on North American mythology, but she's wearing an ankh which is an Egyptian symbol.
I don't give a crap but I think that's what the author of the article was trying to say.

Except that she's not wearing an ankh. Only symbol she wears is a crescent on her head.

 

[Abudefduf]

Except that she's not wearing an ankh. Only symbol she wears is a crescent on her head.

Well, this is what that Hitflix article said about her.

Up close, the details are a hodgepodge of cultures: An Egyptian ankh, a pentacle, a plethora of runes covering her sword and shield (which has yet to be seen in any of her character posters).

I don't know. I'm just the messenger, don't shoot me.

 

[Guts]

 

[KillerWolf]

Well, this is what that Hitflix article said about her.
I don't know. I'm just the messenger, don't shoot me.

Interesting... well, ankh and pentagram were also an Ancient Greek symbols (Minoan, to be more precise, in case of ankh), so there could be a connection between the two if one wants to force it. Though, if that's indeed true, it would seem that witch that possesses Moone, aside from appearing as a pagan deity, isn't supposed to be tied to any particular culture's spiritual and occult system. There's pretty much a religious syncretism going on with those symbols and sigils, and I suppose it would kinda make "sense" for an ancient, powerful witch to find all these sigils as equally legit when it comes to drawing power from them.

Oh, and I'm not shooting anyone, just found it odd. Besides, I prefer cold weapons.

 

[Greens]

To a layman, it doesn't really matter where the mystical symbols come from. If it looks old and magical it's good.

 

[Guts]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH5Dyx7BGGe/?taken-by=karenfukuhara

 

[RadioSha]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH5Dyx7BGGe/?taken-by=karenfukuhara

When she started speaking Japanese, I was grinning from ear to ear.

Can't wait for this movie.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH5Dyx7BGGe/?taken-by=karenfukuhara

Brilliant!

 

[brandeezy89]

Didn't know Karen practiced martial arts before she began acting

 

[Blitzkrieg]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH5Dyx7BGGe/?taken-by=karenfukuhara

Awesome stuff.

 

[Abudefduf]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH5Dyx7BGGe/?taken-by=karenfukuhara

Do I even need to say that I love it? Dat Japanese threat.

 

[BlueLanternKal]

She can cut me in half while threatening me in Japanese anytime. LOL

 

[DeadStroke]

 

[Bats123]

sweet baby jesus...
Harley who?

 

[DeadStroke]

Music from the Katana mini trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1qxAS2hiBU

 

[KillerWolf]

Music from the Katana mini trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1qxAS2hiBU

Oddly, I like it.