‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ trailer: Murder and mayhem reign in Kiyoshi Kurasawa’s period thriller
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new film, 'The Samurai and the Prisoner,' is a historical mystery-thriller set in 16th-century Japan. The film, based on a Naoki Prize-winning novel, follows a warlord who enlists a strategist to solve a series of castle murders.
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The film represents a significant genre shift for a renowned director and has garnered international attention following its Cannes premiere.
The trailer of Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s upcoming film, The Samurai and the Prisoner , was unveiled by the makers on Thursday (June 25, 2026). Marking Kurosawa’s first Samurai movie, the mystery-thriller has been adapted from Honobu Yonezawa’s 2021 novel Kokurojo , which won Japan’s coveted Naoki Prize.
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