{"id":1361,"date":"2026-05-26T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:19:00","slug":"an-interview-with-kiyoshi-kurosawa-japans-master-of-existential-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"An Interview With Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan\u2019s Master of Existential Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17204\/kiyoshi-kurosawa-interview-cure-and-pulse-film-review-cannes-film-festival-japan?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=an-interview-with-kiyoshi-kurosawa-japan-s-master-of-existential-cinema\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/3\/473669.jpeg\" alt=\"The Samurai and the Prisoner, 2026\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Forty years and dozens of films since <\/span><strong>Kiyoshi Kurosawa<\/strong><span> began his career, the exceptional Japanese director of chilling, comfort-shattering horror films has made a samurai film. Just don\u2019t expect Seven Samurai or Lone Wolf and Cub \u2013 based on the prize-winning novel by Honobu Yonezawa, <\/span><strong>The Samurai and the Prisoner<\/strong><span> is an absorbing, detailed mystery drama, a fictionalised account of Lord Murashige Araki (Masahiro Motoki) and thehellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17204\/kiyoshi-kurosawa-interview-cure-and-pulse-film-review-cannes-film-festival-japan?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=an-interview-with-kiyoshi-kurosawa-japan-s-master-of-existential-cinema\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t expect Seven Samurai or Lone Wolf and Cub \u2013 based on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}