Ninjin - The Way Of The Vegetable Assassin

The story of a man with a gun and a mission - to eliminate all instances of unseasonal vegetable consumption. Written and directed by the brilliant Michael 'Watercress' Wright and starring the magnificent Daniel 'Legume' Lapaine with deft editing by Simon 'Water Celery' Wilcox and a purringly perfect soundtrack by Michael 'Mango' Mertens. Produced by the kind people at Mustard in association with the equally kind people at Eat Seasonably (http://www.eatseasonably.co.uk). Huge thanks to all.

Full cast:
Daniel Lapaine - Ninjin; Rob Whitelock - Burgess; Kinue Kato - Kabu Sensei; Leah Whitaker - MI5 Woman; Michael Wright - MI5 Man; Jason Thorpe - The Swede; Natasha Heenan - Woman on Bench; Mavreen Brown - Woman in Car Park; Alex Parkinson - Sandwich Guy; Vince Siracusa - Man in Street.

Full crew:
Michael Wright - Director; John Doris - Executive Producer; Sarah Crisp - Production Manager; Peter Sorg - Director of Photography; Tom Guy - Gaffer; Laura Jane Sessions & Camilla Tew - Hair & Make Up Artists; Mavreen Brown - Production Assistantl; Alex Parkinson - Runner; Harry Jarman - Flame Operator; Steve Lane - Sound Designer; Simon Wilcox, Editor.

Special thanks to:
Michael Mertens at Escape Route, George Martin at Arri Focus, Mark Day at Clapham Road Studios, Loaded Dice, Dan Love & Gil James at Golden Square Post Production, Paula Haughey at Grand Central Sound Studios, Anglo-Japanese Society of Wessex and all at Mustard.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• vegetables
• seasonal
• food
• vegetable
• gardening
• permaculture
• spoof
• parody Green Funny

[makethemaccountable]

I have fresh snow on the roof of my greenhouse, and vine ripe violet jasper tomatoes inside.

[Pwecko]

Very nicely made video but it does send out a pretty horrific message - eat seasonal food or die. I'm sure it was meant to be funny but I didn't find it so. Since oranges, lemons, bananas and many other fruits and vegetables will not grow in the UK and other northerly climes, are we all to be restricted to a diet of root vegetables and brassicas for most of the year? And what happens to the farmers in warmer, poorer countries who rely on exporting their crops? Won't that be allowed? Think.

[SueMoseley]

I took a look at the 'eat seasonably' website, which says the message is 'better taste, better value, better for the planet' - surely then a better message would be 'grow your own' - home grown food tastes way better than shop bought as you can eat it as soon as it's picked, it's much cheaper than buying it in a shop and it is better for the planet since it doesn't have to travel far.

[Helioforge]

Just yesterday I ate lettuce from the garden that self-seeded, and today it's snowing heavily!

[B92MURS]

Not good in any way, it has a ridiculous message, if meant to be funny it was way off the mark! I say if you can grow it, do, if its good for you, eat it! It looks to me like alot of money was wasted on the production of this P.O.S. Was this funded by the Rockefeller foundation? I thought the UK was supposed to be the best at comedy! I'm appalled.

[nevyn1]

the diversity is far greater then you would expect, don't forget we just stopped producing hundreds of species 50 to 100 years back because we started to import 'cheap' food from overseas.

[marthale7]

@Pwecko Yep this is the exact message that makes permaculture look bad. Making up rules that do this or you are bad. There is no reason a person can't use a cold frame to extend the season of their crops. I also think that having food shipped in is not a bad idea if they can mass produce quality organic food that is mineral dense cheaper than what you can grow it example grains. We need to think thru the mantra we chat. Some are good, other aren't.