LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC Family has picked up
“Samurai Girl,” which the cable network plans to air as a
“major programming event” consisting of three two-hour
episodes.
“Samurai,” from ABC Studios, is set to start production in
the spring in Vancouver and is slated to air over one weekend
in August 2008.
“Samurai,” based on a series of popular young-adult novels,
centers on a 19-year-old Japanese girl named Heaven (Jamie
Chung) who discovers that the wealthy businessman who adopted
her as an infant is really the head of the Yakuza (the Japanese
mafia) and had her beloved brother brutally murdered. She
breaks from her family and begins training to become a samurai,
and with the help of a group of new American friends, sets out
to take down her father’s evil empire.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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