The slashing ninja! Karen Fukuhara is Katana

[Guts]

Katana intro.
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[Guts]

Also here is a brief but funny moment between Katana and Deadshot.
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[Abudefduf]

Don't tempt me.
I'm not watching anymore clips. Especially considering that her role in the movie is supposedly fairly limited. I want to save some good stuff for the theater.

 

[OutOfBoose]

How's her Japanese? Is she a native speaker? I love her voice.

 

[DeadStroke]

Don't tempt me.
I'm not watching anymore clips. Especially considering that her role in the movie is supposedly fairly limited. I want to save some good stuff for the theater.

Not a clip. Just Karen being hot and awesome.

http://i.4cdn.org/co/1469364762150.webm

 

[Raphi]

Not a clip. Just Karen being hot and awesome.

http://i.4cdn.org/co/1469364762150.webm

...................... God.

 

[brandeezy89]

How's her Japanese? Is she a native speaker? I love her voice.

Yes and practices martial arts (Didn't say what type)

 

[Guts]

 

[OutOfBoose]

Yes and practices martial arts (Didn't say what type)

Awesome. She sounds so cool as Katana.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Consona]

I love the cyberpunkish vibe of the surroundings.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Yeah, lighting setup and locations remind me of best shots of Blade Runner.

 

[KillerWolf]

Yeah, lighting setup and locations remind me of best shots of Blade Runner.

Same here. That Katana shot is very reminiscent of "Blade Runner".

 

[DeadStroke]

There is a character listed as Yakuza Boss.

So maybe we do get a quick flashback for Katana.

 

[KillerWolf]

Well, this certainly doesn't look like Midway city, as seen in other scenes.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, looks like it might be a flashback.

 

[DeadStroke]

Hollywood ReporterVerified account
‏@THR
Next Big Thing: #SuicideSquad's @KarenFukuhara explains her tattoo from Margot Robbie http://thr.cm/JYcQ8w

 

[TheRedWraith]

Jesus, Flagg wasn't kidding when he said she could cut through you like nothing.

 

[DeadStroke]

http://www.wmagazine.com/story/karen-fukuhara-suicide-squad-actress

She still didn't have an agent when she got the call to audition for Suicide Squad, only a manager. No doubt it was her martial arts training—and director David Ayers's decision to actually hire an Asian actress to play a Japanese character (whew)—that helped her land her breakthrough role. In high school, Fukuhara was a karate champion. "I only got into it because my little brother started karate, and my mother wanted me to babysit him," she explained. "He was a troublemaker in class—and thank god for that now."
As Katana, Fukuhara did all of own stunts save one—"I even ran on top of a car in the pouring rain," she said—and mastered the art of swordfighting at least to the extent that she wouldn't, say, accidentally take off Margot Robbie's head with an errant swing of the blade. "Margot's very tough, but yeah that would've been bad."
For a newcomer on the set of a movie rumored to have cost upwards of $150 million, the pressure to perform must've been enormous, but the mood was loosened up by the likes of Robbie (who plays Harley Quinn, the Joker's equally maniacal sidekick) and Will Smith (who plays the assassin Deadshot). "Will set the family vibe on the film," Fukuhara said. "He created this gym on set so we could train when we weren't shooting. And he would bring coffee and snack trucks to set."
And of course there was Jared Leto, whose gossiped-about antics on set (his gifts to his co-stars have included real bullets and a dead rat) are likely tied to his method approach to playing The Joker, a role with Heath Ledger-sized shoes to fill. As it turns out, his commitment was as total as the rumors have suggested. "To be honest, I didn't meet Jared until Comic Con this year," Fukuhara said. "Because every time I saw him on set he introduced himself as the Joker! I would try to say hi to him as Karen, and he would come at me with full Joker."
She laughed.
"It was weird every single time."

 

[Guts]

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Wise]

Katana was pretty pointless in the film.

 

[Loki882]

Yeah agreed. I mean Karen did ok with what she was given to work with. But you could have cut Katana (no pun intended) out of this film entirely and it wouldn't have really changed things.

I really hope that Margot gets to make that "Harley Quinn and the awesome female DC characters" film that she's been pitching, and that Katana is in it and gets more to do there.

 

[ManWithNoName18]

I feel like both her and the Joker could have been cut out and nothing would have really changed.

 

[Smilodon]

She should've been the one to bring Boomer or Slipknot in or something. Give her a more pertinent use instead of showing yet another flashback.

In the future she can take Bronze Tiger's role of second in command. Would be cool to see her do more.