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‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Folds Nesting Mysteries into an Elegantly Classical Shogun-Era Drama

‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Folds Nesting Mysteries into an Elegantly Classical Shogun-Era Drama
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Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown — or in this case, the samurai topknot — in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s absorbing, clean-lined literary adaptation, for which the veteran filmmaker brings to life a storied period of swirling discontent in Japanese history with such evocative restraint that it becomes distinctly modern. And yet this is no […]

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