Scabbard Samurai (2011)
Scabbard Samurai
”A samurai must make a grieving prince smile in 30 days or commit seppuku.”
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From Hitoshi Matsumoto, one of the most famous comedians in Japan, 'Scabbard Samurai' is a funny parody of Japanese period films - like, for example, Akira Kurosawa's 'The Seven Samurai'. With a somewhat crazy but highly attractive aesthetic for Feudal Japan, this movie is a valuable exponent of slapstick comedy, counting Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin among its legends.
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A captured masterless samurai has 30 days to make a grieving boy prince smile, or he must commit seppuku.
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