Der Samurai (2014)

Review: Der Samurai (2014)

Director: Till Kleinert

Cast: Michel Diercks, Pit Bukowski, Uwe Preuss, Kaja Blachnik, Ulrike Hanke-Haensch,

Michel Diercks
Michel Diercks
Pit Bukowski
Pit Bukowski
Uwe Preuss
Uwe Preuss
Kaja Blachnik
Kaja Blachnik
Ulrike Hanke-Haensch
Ulrike Hanke-Haensch

Plot: 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. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade towards the village, it becomes Jakob's mission to pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight.

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Artsploitation Films and the boundaries of horror

Artsploitation Films and the boundaries of horror

Artsploitation Films is a distributor with a taste for offbeat horror as represented in two recent Blu-ray releases, the German Der Samurai and the French (though shot in English) Horsehead, both visually stylized and more interested in metaphor […]

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