History Film / TheHunted1995

* CharacterDevelopment: While initially clueless and fearing for his life, Racine, through training from the Takeda clan, eventually becomes confident and competent enough to know how to at least defend himself from attack. When he encounters Kinjo late in the film, he manages to fight toe-to-toe with the Ninja clan leader.

* NeverMyFault: Kinjo kills two minions for failing to kill Racine (though they came very close and left him near en and hospitalised) even though he was present and could have made sure Racine was dead himself, not to mention he didn't have to take off his mask in the first place. He later blames the man who hired him to kill Kirina for "forcing" him to slaughter a whole bunch of innocent people all for the sake of hiding his face, even though he agreed to the contract killing with no questions asked and despite the murder being completely incidental to what he's upset about.

* JustTrainWrong: At Nagoya Station, the Shinkansen that Racine and the Takedas board is shown to be Series 100 train. However, during the middle of the train attack, the model suddely changes to the newer Series 300, before changing a third time into an older Series 0 train upon arriving at Nara station.

* InfantImmortality: Played straight. The little girl who helps Racine escape the casino in Nagoya manages to escape with her life, after he pays the taxi driver to bring her home safely, thus preventing her from getting involved with the Makato ninjas further.

* AdvertisedExtra: Creator/JoanChen receives third billing and is featured on several of the movie's posters. However, only 10 or so minutes into the film, she's beheaded by Kinjo.

** Ijuro himself, as Mieko states, "will not lose" even in the face of being outnumbered and injured.

** In addition, Ijuro's pride as a warrior also indirectly results in the Takeda's rampage on the train, resulting the deaths of dozens of innocents, all so he could lure Kinjo out.

* SafetyInMuggles: Racine uses this method to escape the Makato pursuing him the first time. This later forces the next group of assassins to LeaveNoWitnesses when they attack the train he and the Takedas are on.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Kinjo is utterly disgusted [[spoiler: by the petty reasons that the Yakuza boss who hired him had for wanting Kirina killed.]]

** Both Ijuro and Kinjo ended up getting killed thanks in part to their beliefs as well as {{pride}}, when they both refuse to throw in the towel and insist on fighting one-on-one and finishing off their enemies up close, respectively.

* {{Pride}}: Both Ijuro's and Kinjo's pride as warriors prove to be their downfall, when Ijuro, instead of calling for backup, is killed by Kinjo in a one-on-one sword fight. The latter, meanwhile, wanting to finish off both Ijuro and Racine for personal reasons, is killed thanks to this, as he get's severely injured by a dying Ijuro in the leg, and is finished off by the now-recovered Racine.

* HonorBeforeReason: Ijuro throws away Racine's gun just as the latter is about to shoot one of the ninjas targeting Mieko, preferring to fight them fair and square, as well as believing that the final ninja standing was Kinjo.

* HonorBeforeReason: Ijuro throws away Racine's gun just as the latter is about to shoot one of the ninjas targeting Mieko, preferring to fight them fair and square.

''The Hunted'' is a 1995 martial-arts thriller film written and directed by J.F. Lawton in his mainsteam directorial debut. It stars Creator/ChristopherLambert as Paul Racine, an American business travelling in Nagoya who accidentally stumbles upon a {{Ninja}} {{Cult}}, and becomes part of their hit list following him witnessing their leader Kinjo's face during the assassination of a woman that Racine met the previous night (played by Creator/JoanChen).

Not to be confused with the 2003 [[Film/TheHunted film of the same name]].

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After the train attack leaves his second-in-command, and lover, dead, Kinjo becomes even more motivated to kill Racine and the Takeda clan.