A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated german village. The samurai guitarist headhunted by angelina jolie for. 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. The title may attract the wrong audience, but that is the only problem i have with this. If this is a movie about a nut case with a sword, well i dont buy it. Musashi miyamoto was released in japan on 26 september 1954 where it was distributed by toho. Michel diercks, pit bukowski, uwe preuss, kaja blachnik. Writer and director is till kleinert and luckily this film here is not as bad as his gaythemed fairly long short film. It was distributed theatrically in the united states as samurai the legend of musashi by fine art films with englishsubtitles and english narration on 19 november 1955. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated german v. 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.
Aug 29, 2016 this feature is not available right now. Theres nothing more satisfying in cinema than a great low budget film. Queere medien datenbank queer cinema filmdersamurai2014. A szamuraj 2014a wolf strives through the woods around an isolated german village. 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. 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. 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.
Outcast is a 2014 americanchinesecanadian action film, directed by nick powell in his directorial debut and written by james dormer. The film was released to home video as samurai i, samurai i. 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. In the film, the matter of cinema is the process of creativity, arduous and. 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. 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.
Theres very little question that the feral transvestite samurai in till. Since 2005 hes belonged to the schattenkante filmmakers collective. A wolf wanders the woods on the edge of a small village on the germanpolish border. 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. Kritika occasional, critical, and nonsensical writing. 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. 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. Samurai, the 2014 starring michel diercks, pit bukowski, uwe preuss. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress.
Musashi miyamoto is a 1954 japanese film by hiroshi inagaki starring toshiro mifune. The 15 best samurai films not directed by akira kurosawa. This is a film that could never be made in a studio environment. Dec 18, 2014 the samurai guitarist headhunted by angelina jolie for unbroken. Pit bukowski, michel diercks ikilisinin elinden oynanm. Oct 17, 2014 a wolf strives through the woods around an isolated german village. August 30, 2014 a queer retelling of the werewolf myth, the. The samurai guitarist headhunted by angelina jolie for unbroken.