‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ trailer: Murder and mayhem reign in Kiyoshi Kurasawa’s period thriller
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). In order to find the mystery behind these gruesome murders, Araki seeks help a cunning man, Kanbei (Masaki Suda) who was once a strategist, whom he has chained in the dungeon of his castle. The trailer is filled with some dramatic exchanges and psychological nuances between the two which Kurosawa is known for as the film promises to be a visually-rich, historical mystery-drama.The film will be distributed in the USA by Janus Films and will be released on July 31.
- ▪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).
- ▪In order to find the mystery behind these gruesome murders, Araki seeks help a cunning man, Kanbei (Masaki Suda) who was once a strategist, whom he has chained in the dungeon of his castle.
- ▪The trailer is filled with some dramatic exchanges and psychological nuances between the two which Kurosawa is known for as the film promises to be a visually-rich, historical mystery-drama.The film will be distributed in the USA by Janus F
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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. ‘Sheep in the Box’ trailer: Hirokazu Koreeda’s latest explores AI and the limits of human imaginationSet during the 16th century in feudal Japan, the castle of a warlord, Araki Murashige (Masahiro Motoki), sees a host of killings which begins to turn everyone against him. In order to find the mystery behind these gruesome murders, Araki seeks help a cunning man, Kanbei (Masaki Suda) who was once a strategist, whom he has chained in the dungeon of his castle.
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