THE SAMAURI AND THE PRISONER

SEPTEMBER 1

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (Cure, Pulse) stately, meticulously composed period drama, set in 16th-century Japan:

When Lord Murashige rises up against the tyrannical Oda, he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated, he is confronted with a series of mysterious crimes that shatter the fragile order of his court, plunging the fortress into fear and suspicion. With Oda's army closing in and a traitor hiding among his ranks, Murashige is forced into an uneasy alliance with Kanbei, a brilliant and dangerous strategist held prisoner in the dungeon, as he must outwit his enemies and uncover the truth before time runs out.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s new film iz adapted from Honobu Yonezawa’s best-selling, Naoki Prize–winning novel and was selected at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The Samurai and The Prisoner is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones, bringing the winding investigations of Cure and Serpent’s Path into a meticulously composed period piece about the manipulation of terror. A Janus Films release.