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Janus Films has acquired each U.S. authorities to The Samurai And The Prisoner, nan latest characteristic by Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, group to debut astatine this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The Samurai And The Prisoner is adapted from nan caller by Honobu Yonezawa. The movie was produced by Shochiku successful relation pinch Tokyo Broadcasting System Television.
The film’s charismatic synopsis reads: When Lord Murashige Araki rises up against nan tyrannical Nobunaga Oda, he finds himself besieged wrong nan walls of his ain castle. Isolated, he is confronted pinch a bid of mysterious crimes that shatter nan vulnerable bid of his court, plunging nan wall into fearfulness and suspicion. With Oda’s service closing successful and a traitor hiding among his ranks, Murashige is forced into an uneasy confederation pinch Kanbei Kuroda, a superb yet vulnerable strategist held captive successful nan dungeon. Helped by his woman Chiyoho and his astir loyal generals, Murashige must uncover nan truth earlier nan castle falls.
Born successful 1955 successful Kobe, Japan, Kurosawa started directing 8mm independent films while studying Sociology astatine Rikkyo University. After that, he worked arsenic an adjunct head nether Kazuhiko Hasegawa and Shinji Somai. His films see Cure, Charisma, Pulse, Bright Future, Tokyo Sonata, Journey To The Shore, Creepy, Daguerrotype, After We Vanish, Wife Of A Spy, Serpent’s Path, and Cloud.
“I was very positively amazed to study that nan communicative of nan Sengoku warlord Araki Murashige, who rebelled against his lord Oda Nobunaga, will beryllium screened successful Cannes, transcending some borders and time,” Kurosawa said successful a statement.
“If, by bully fortune, group overseas tin genuinely understand that this is thing that could still hap moreover today, I would beryllium immensely happy.”
