The Wolverine is a 2013 superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine. It is the sixth installment in the X-Men film series, the second installment in the trilogy of Wolverine films after X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and a spin-off/sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Directed by James Mangold from a screenplay written by Scott Frank and Mark Bomback, based on the 1982 limited series Wolverine by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, it stars Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine, alongside Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto, Hiroyuki Sanada, Famke Janssen, and Will Yun Lee. Following the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, Logan travels to Japan, where he engages an old acquaintance in a struggle that has lasting consequences. Stripped of his healing powers, Wolverine must battle deadly samurai while struggling with guilt over Jean Grey's death.
Appearances[edit]
- Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine: A mutant, whose prodigious healing abilities and adamantium infused skeleton combine to make him virtually immortal.
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Shingen Harada: Ichirō's son as well as Mariko's father and corporate rival, who is proficient in kendo.
- Tao Okamoto as Mariko Yashida: Ichirō's granddaughter, whose life becomes threatened as a result of her grandfather's will.
- Rila Fukushima as Yukio: A mutant who has precognitive abilities and one of the deadliest assassins in Ichirō's clan.
- Svetlana Khodchenkova as Viper: A mutant, who has an immunity to toxins.
- Brian Tee as Noburo: A corrupt minister of justice, who is engaged to Mariko.
- Haruhiko Yamanouchi as Yashida: Shingen's father, Mariko's grandfather and the founder of Yashida Industries, a powerful technology zaibatsu.
- Ken Yamamura portrays young Yashida when saved by Logan during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
- Will Yun Lee as Harada: A former lover of Mariko and head of the Black Ninja Clan, sworn to protect the Yashida family.