Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Period Thriller 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' Drops First Trailer
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's first samurai film, 'The Samurai and the Prisoner,' has released its debut trailer ahead of a July 31 theatrical release. The period thriller, based on a Naoki Prize-winning novel, follows a strategist tasked with solving a series of murders within a besieged castle.
Why it matters
The film marks a significant genre shift for a renowned director, drawing attention from international distributors like Janus Films.
Inside a feudal Japanese castle ringed by a warlord’s army, a series of impossible killings begins to turn a besieged court against itself - and the cornered lord, unable to find the culprit, seeks counsel from the one man cunning enough to unmask the murderer: a brilliant strategist he has chained in his own dungeon.
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