Samurai Fiction (1998)

Original title

SF サムライ・フィクション

Directed by

Hiroyuki Nakano

Genre

adventure film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 51m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young samurai sets out to retrieve a stolen sword and avenge his father. The film mixes old school samurai adventure with an anachronistic rock soundtrack and a black and white look.

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What happens

Samurai Fiction (SF サムライ・フィクション, Esu Efu Samurai Fikushon) is a 1998 comedy-samurai film directed by Hiroyuki Nakano. It is almost entirely black-and-white, and follows a fairly standard plotline for a comedy and jidaigeki samurai film, but the presence of Tomoyasu Hotei's rock-and-roll soundtrack separates it from the films it was inspired by, such as the works of Akira Kurosawa. A loose spinoff was released in 2001, as Red Shadow. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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