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.

“For a director best famed for his chilling allegories of our back-to-front digital lives, the starkly novel setting will likely lead conversations about ‘Samurai’ towards an alleged departure from the rest of Kurosawa’s oeuvre. But Murashige’s struggle for emancipation from the ruthless bushido moral compass aligns him with the drifters populating works like ‘Cure’, ‘Pulse’, or ‘Cloud’—outcasts likewise hellbent on breaking free from their restrictive social orders, all rules be damned.” ~ Leonardo Goi, The Film Stage

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