The title may attract the wrong audience, but that is the only problem i have with this. The samurai 2014 jakob, a young policeman from a remote village, has his world unhinged when a stranger in a dress emerges from the forest and begins killing villagers with a sword. The samurai guitarist headhunted by angelina jolie for unbroken. Writer and director is till kleinert and luckily this film here is not as bad as his gaythemed fairly long short film. A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated german village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. If this is a movie about a nut case with a sword, well i dont buy it. Michel diercks, pit bukowski, uwe preuss, kaja blachnik.
A szamuraj 2014a wolf strives through the woods around an isolated german village. This is a film that could never be made in a studio environment. I saw this film at the imagine sfhorrorfantasy filmfestival amsterdam 2014. Jakob is a policeman in a village deep in the woods, where little happens until the arrival of a mysterious wolf that is causing havoc. White heaven in hell 1974 based on the manga series kozure okami by kazuo koike and goseki kojima, the lone wolf and cub series of six films depicts the trail of bloodstained vengeance taken by ogami itto, the former official executioner for the shogunate, and his very young son, who he pushes along in a woodandbamboo baby cart rigged with more weapons. The film stars tom cruise, who also coproduced, with timothy spall, ken watanabe, billy connolly, tony goldwyn, hiroyuki sanada, koyuki, and shin koyamada in supporting roles tom cruise portrays a united states. Often low budget films aspire to be commercial hits, which generally results in a passionless product even worse than the mainstream movies it emulates because of its lack of. In the film, the matter of cinema is the process of creativity, arduous and.
Working the night shift, jakob is tracking the wolfonly to discover that the lupine lurker is actually a man clad only in lipstick and a ladies slip, and toting a samurai sword that he uses to lop off the heads of the townspeople. Its a genre mixer that maintains a pliable tone throughout, allowing for all of its various. Outcast is a 2014 americanchinesecanadian action film, directed by nick powell in his directorial debut and written by james dormer. Musashi miyamoto is a 1954 japanese film by hiroshi inagaki starring toshiro mifune. The film beautifully opposes the policemans rigid sense of order and duty with the samurais animalistic sense of abandon and disregard for life or death, even as it becomes increasingly. Dec 18, 2014 the samurai guitarist headhunted by angelina jolie for unbroken.
This 2014 german language fantasy slasher type thriller follows timid and shunned police officer jacob who is trying to capture a wolf that has been terrorising his village but when he delivers a samurai sword to a man in a dress, things become even stranger. The film stars tom cruise, who also coproduced, with timothy spall, ken watanabe, billy connolly, tony goldwyn, hiroyuki sanada, koyuki, and shin koyamada in supporting. A queer retelling of the werewolf myth, the samurai reveals the dark side of a character who comes out in the light of the full moon. Theres very little question that the feral transvestite samurai in till. Theres nothing more satisfying in cinema than a great low budget film. In 2004 he started studying direction at the german film and television academy dffb in berlin where he wrote and directed a number of short films which enjoyed success at national and international festivals and won several awards. Pit bukowski, michel diercks ikilisinin elinden oynanm. A wolf wanders the woods on the edge of a small village on the germanpolish border. Musashi miyamoto was released in japan on 26 september 1954 where it was distributed by toho. With michel diercks, pit bukowski, uwe preuss, ulrike hankehaensch.
August 30, 2014 a queer retelling of the werewolf myth, the. The last samurai is a 2003 american period action drama film directed and coproduced by edward zwick, who also cowrote the screenplay with john logan and marshall herskovitz. This 2014 german language fantasy slasher type thriller follows timid and shunned. Utilizing elements of slasher movies, classic giallo, arthouse, werewolf movies, fantasy yarns and everything in between, its a credit to kleinert and his hugely talented art and design team that all of these different influences fit together so well, to form a cohesive. Since 2005 hes belonged to the schattenkante filmmakers collective.
Queere medien datenbank queer cinema filmdersamurai2014. Samurai, the 2014 starring michel diercks, pit bukowski, uwe preuss. The samurai guitarist headhunted by angelina jolie for. Oct 17, 2014 a wolf strives through the woods around an isolated german village. Shot in eastmancolor, it is the first film of inagakis samurai trilogy of historical adventures the film is adapted from eiji yoshikawas novel musashi, originally released as a serial in the japanese newspaper asahi shimbun. Chrisreynolds a beautifully shot and fascinating film about repressed desire figurated into destructive avatar. A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated german v. It has its flaws the story plods along clumsily in some parts and there is an initial struggle to figure out the central focus of the film yet theres merit in the main performances bukowski inhabits his role hauntingly well and. Dont get left behind enjoy unlimited, adfree access to shudders full library of films and series for 7 days.
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