Forty years and dozens of films since Kiyoshi Kurosawa began his career, the exceptional Japanese director of chilling, comfort-shattering horror films has made a samurai film. Just don’t expect Seven Samurai or Lone Wolf and Cub – based on the prize-winning novel by Honobu Yonezawa, The Samurai and the Prisoner is an absorbing, detailed mystery drama, a fictionalised account of Lord Murashige Araki (Masahiro Motoki) and thehellip;

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