How Kiyoshi Kurosawa Turned a Samurai Whodunit Into a Chilling Story About Belief with ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’
Kiyoshi Kurosawa adapts Honobu Yonezawa’s novel into a murder mystery that probes faith, ritual and the unexplained betrayal of a feudal lord.
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Movie Review – The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)
Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Movie Review – The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) 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 Kihar…
The Samurai and the Prisoner captured by questions, small & large
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been on a tear in recent years. Since 2020, he’s had eight projects. That includes two features and a short film in 2024 alone—Cloud, a thriller about an internet reseller; Serpent’s Path, a remake of his own 1998 revenge film about child killers; and Chime, a horror short intended only for theaters with no plans to ever bring it to streaming services. Bopping from genre to genre, Kurosawa doesn’t seem content to sit still. …
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