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Review | Cannes 2026: The Samurai and the Prisoner movie review – Kiyoshi Kurosawa back on top form

 20/05/2026 4 Views
Review | Cannes 2026: The Samurai and the Prisoner movie review – Kiyoshi Kurosawa back on top form



4/5 stars

Kiyoshi Kurosawa launched his directorial career in the mid-1980s by turning one of the staples of Japanese cinema, the erotic “pink film”, into something steeped in style, politics and cinephilia.

Four decades on, the 70-year-old has taken another much-loved Japanese genre, the samurai drama, and stripped it of its swashbuckling conventions to deliver an atmospheric – and mostly action-free – suspense thriller that debunks myths of honour, reverence and reckless bravery in war.

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