Masaki Suda

“The Samurai and the Prisoner” has been seen by some as a deviation from the norm in the career of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but this is a truly limited way to look at a filmmaker’s legacy. Yes, Kurosawa may be best known for horror with landmark J-Horror films like “Cure” and “Pulse,” and recent excellence like “Cloud” and “Chime,” but he’s made non-genre films before.

Tokio, 1943. Während die Stadt nach einem Luftangriff in Flammen steht, erwacht der zwölfjährige Mahito im Chaos: Das Krankenhaus, in dem seine Mutter arbeitet, brennt lichterloh. Verzweifelt rennt er durch die Strassen, doch er erreicht das Gebäude nicht. Von seiner Mutter fehlt jede Spur. Ein Jahr später heiratet sein Vater erneut - die Schwester der Verstorbenen, Natsuko. Um den Bombenangriffen zu entkommen, zieht die Familie von Tokio auf das abgelegene Anwesen von Natsuko.

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