Japanese horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa on making his first samurai film
The Wife of a Spy and Cloud director talks about deviating from the genre he’s known best for and the ‘contradiction’ in his work
Japanese horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa will bring his signature edge-of-your-seat storytelling to a genre he has not yet tackled: the samurai movie.
“I do want to do it once, and it looks like it might be really happening, although things are still uncertain. I may finally be able to make my samurai film,” he says, adding he cannot give away much just yet.
His upcoming project will not have sword-fight scenes or action-packed outdoor shots typical of samurai films, or jidaigeki. Instead, it will display the same creepy quiet narrative of his movies, where the action takes place almost claustrophobically – in this case, in a castle that just happens to be set in the samurai era.
That concept alone should be enough to pique a movie lover’s interest.
