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Asia Media Alliance Group Japanese cult action star Tak Sakaguchi has signed on to play the nemesis of Iko Uwais in “Pendekar: Warrior,” an upcoming martial-arts feature marking Sakaguchi’s first major screen role outside his home country.
Principal photography is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Sakaguchi, known to action devotees for his cult roles in “Versus” and “Re:Born,” has built his reputation on an unrelenting physical approach to screen fighting. He is widely associated with one of the more extraordinary sequences in action cinema: a 77-minute single-take fight in “Crazy Samurai Musashi” in which he faces down some 400 opponents. His pairing with Uwais – internationally recognized for “The Raid,” “The Raid 2,” “Headshot,” “The Night Comes for Us,” “Mile 22” and “Expend4bles” – brings together two performers from rival martial-arts traditions who have not previously shared a screen.
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