Rain in "Ninja Assassin" - some rehearsal stills

by Tangera Mon May 12, 2008 6:53 am

Photos of Rain training for his role in his next movie, “Ninja Assassin” was released recently. He is seen wearing a singlet, holding two sword props in his hands as he went through sword fighting techniques. But most importantly, you can see his much talked about significantly beefed up body.

Rain in "Ninja Assassin" - some rehearsal stills Untitl14

Rain in "Ninja Assassin" - some rehearsal stills Untitl14

For his role in “Ninja Assassin”, Rain specially hired trainers that trained the cast in “300″ to beef up his body. He went through more than 10 hours of intense training and strict diet each day just to sculpt his body as seen in the pictures.

Rain had revealed in an interview when he was back in Korea recently to promote “Speed Racer” that he was surprised with his body transformation, “I have a body that’s difficult to build up muscles actually. But just four months of intense training, I was pretty shocked at the results.”

Rain revealed himself that during his work-out period, he has only had a diet consisting of chicken breast, raw fish, sweet potatoes and salad. The work-out lasted for four months and saw his body fat level reduce from 12% to only 5%.

“Ninja Assassin” is Rain’s follow-up movie with The Wachowski Brothers after “Speed Racer”. Filming started at the end of April in Germany and is expected to hit cinemas next year.

Credits: Coolsmurf
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Wow. I've always heard that he has a beautifully sculpted body but I never knew it was -like that!-. Okay so now I know. Anyway, I see that he is putting in lots of effort into this (and everything else he is pursuing, I guess) so I wish him all the best! :) I think he's lucky to be able to film movies as a way of entering the US market...

by noonoo_shoo Mon May 12, 2008 7:23 am

wowza!

im loving the new look, i was actually worried it would too much muscle but it seems like just enough. Now all he needs to do is cut the hair and have some scruff for him to be drool worthy

Wink

by strawberrybj Mon May 12, 2008 8:48 am

whaoww! the body is ok...next step is to get rid of that hair...ok maybe ninja needs to have long hair...but get rid of it after that then it'll be perfect...