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.
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.
i love his body!
but i must admit that i don’t like how shrunken his cheeks look..
He looks hot, but his hair is bugging me a lot…
He’s so hard-working.^^
If I were to go by his face- I would not have recognized him! His bod is hot! But man- he lost the roundness in his cheeks.
Actually, I know a thing or two about the training Rain is doing in Germany. They are training in a studio is Babelsberg (outside Potsdam) where a friend of mine works. He said that two guys from Epoch Training (www.epochtraining.com) are handling Rain’s conditioning and diet. They have him eating really well and training hard. Plus, he’s doing hours of fight training with a stunt team called 87Eleven (www.87eleven.com). It seems like there is a relationship between those two groups as their websites overlap.
i miss my old rain with more meat..T.T now is to skiny T.T with many musle.. i want my jinny cheeks back T.T
I’m cool with how Rain looks, yes even his face is just fine as it is. This only means that he’s no longer a cutesy-boy and lost all those baby fats, (thank goodness). He has now become a well developed “man” (finally).
Anyway, there is no such thing as a cutesy baby-face ninja.
And one reason for Rain’s long hair, because of the character he is portraying, DUH.
Rain didn’t lose any meat and definitely didn’t get skinny. He lost the baby-fats and gain muscles instead.
He looks… older. Hopefully it’s just the pictures, rather than Rain himself. “(
Come on face the reality! We should welcome the success that is happening with Rain. This is progress. He can’t be cutesy-cutesy forever. He has a lot of potentials and wanting him to be a teeny-bopper artist is not the way to support him. Rain with muscles or no-muscles-at-all is still RAIN!! He’s a refreshing face in HOLLYWOOD! Keep it up Rain!
I second that switchfoot_surfer!
Wow my 3 months doing p90x program and I still can’t get as fit as him.
i lve u much rain i m ur fans visit my country it is myanmar near Tai i will treat u just come to my country
Who says that there is no such thing as a cutesy baby faced Ninja? Do you know Ninja personally? Silly comment.
And Rain is not even Japanese, he is Korean!!! Just because an actor has slanted eyes it doesn’t mean some of us can’t tell he isn’t Japanese. Like the Geisha movie! Oh my gawd that was annoying! The movie was good but you could tell a lot of them weren’t Japanese! Hollywood ignorance is too bountiful.
Other than that, I WILL be checking out the movie, it looks like it’s going to be kickin’ and yes, he is hawt! HA!
i love your body Rain ,so mucles n macho ,i hope you will success for your next movie, cia yoooo
NINJA ASSASIN IS SO COOL, I LOVED IT VERY MUCH, RAIN IS VERY GOOD PLAYING IN THIS NINJA FILM.
I HOPE RAIN WILL BE SUCCESS IN HIS NEXT MOVIE
SELAMAT YA RAIN MAINNYA BANGUS BANGET N KEREN
SALUT FOR RAIN
I do like rain…..
rain is very good in this ninja film….
Yes, his quite stunning and lethal/Martial Arts gifted & talented, too and especially so when his protected someone. Which RAIN character did numerous times in the movie “NINJA ASSASSIN” – I find RAIN quite a charismatic Actor and brilliantly genuine Martial Artist. I wish him much “success” in all his Movie endeavors/he and his NINJA ASSASSIN Co-star’s Actress Naomie Harris (she’s lovely/very talented..’loved her in 28 Days Later: dramatic & frightening movie to say the very least!) and the rest of the NINJA ASSASSIN Cast were a “total knockout” in this action packed film. Which is definately in my Top 10 favorite Movie films of 2009! Peace.