The Samurai and the Prisoner, 2026. Written and Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Munetaka Aoki, Ryota Miyadate, Tasuku Emoto, Joe Odagiri, Yusuke Santamaria, Mitsuo Yoshihara, Ryota Bando, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Ikkei Watanabe, Yoshimasa Kondo, Toshihiro Yashiba, Masatoshi Kihara, Yamato Kochi, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Shusaku Kamikawa, Oshirō Maeda, and Shingo […]
Trailer for Japanese historical drama The Samurai and the Prisoner
Janus Films has shared a poster and trailer for The Samurai and the Prisoner, the Japanese historical drama from writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Based on Honobu Yonezawa’s novel Kokurojo, the film sees Lord Murashige Araki besieged in his own castle. With the tyrannical Nobunaga Oda’s army closing in and a series of mysterious crimes shattering his […]
Movie Review – Touch (2024)
Touch, 2024. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur. Starring Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur, Masahiro Motoki, Sigurður Ingvarsson, Yōko Narahashi, Masatoshi Nakamura, Meg Kubota, María Ellingsen, Eiji Mihara, Ruth Sheen, Benedikt Erlingsson, Tatsuya Tagawa, Charles Nishikawa, Starkadur Petursson, Akshay Khanna, Theodór Júlíusson, Kieran Buckeridge, Brandy Row, Masaya Mimura, Rie Shibata, Eugene Nomura, and Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir. SYNOPSIS: […]
