crazy samurai musashi

CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI Lands At Well Go USA For North American Release

Third in line since debut directing Death Trance and the recent Shudder release of Re:Born, dynamic action duo Tak Sakaguchi and Yuji Shimomura will be bringing the crazy to North America with their latest feat, Crazy Samurai Musashi. Well Go USA has acquired the rights to the ambitious period sword thriller, marking Sakaguchi’s first time back to the label since 2011 with the U.S. release of several Japanese genre titles, namely Mutant Girls Squad, Helldriver, Yakuza Weapon and Deadball. In Crazy Samurai Musashi, Sakaguchi stars as the 17th century samurai of legend, Miyamoto Musashi, who battles more than four hundred warriors in a deadly challenge against the Yoshioka Ryu. Actors Kento Yamazaki, Yosuke Saito, Ben Hiura and Arata Yamanaka also star in the film which is now being sold internationally for this year’s virtual market at the Toronto International Film Festival by sales agent, Princ Films. Crazy Samurai Musashi has […]

Fantasia XXIV Review: Yuji Shimomura’s CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI Is An Audacious Jidaigeki Experiment That Stands The Test Of Time

Lee B. Golden III

Just over ten years ago, fan favorite Tak Sakaguchi made headlines with director Sion Sono for an ambitious “super genre” action project which, for some reason or another, took on an entirely different identity than intially intended. Much of that project was shot in the space of seventy-five minutes in a single afternoon, only to be shelved for the next several years until it fell into the prospective hands of longtime friend and film cohort, Yuji Shimomura, back in 2018. Together with executive producer Takayuki Ota, the race to finish what would become ultimately known as Crazy Samurai Musashi, is one that definitely required a strong blitz. The addition of actor Kento Yamazaki, one of the biggest film actor in Japan today, and the lead actor of one of Sakaguchi’s most recent credits, Shinsuke Sato’s Kingdom, is exactly what the doctor ordered to help get this film back on radar. […]

CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI Kills And Kills Again And Again In The Newest Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

The newest trailer is online for Yuji Shimomura’s new film, Crazy Samurai Musashi, starring the one and only Tak Sakaguchi and Kento Yamazaki. For both actors, the film will also mark their latest return to Fantasia Festival next month since appearing in last year’s striking premiere of Shinsuke Sato’s riveting hit manga adaptation, Kingdom. NON-STOP ACTION AWAITS IN CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI! Martial artist Tak Sakaguchi (VERSUS, WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL, YAKUZA WEAPON) is back in the spotlight with CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI – a long-in-the-making, unique take on swordsman Musashi Miyamoto’s most fabled battle, shot here as a single 77-minute action sequence by director Yûji Shimomura (DEATH TRANCE, RE:BORN). It’s Tak, 588 foes, and no room for error! Canadian Premiere. A Japan release will follow suit with a date set for August 21, 2020. In the meantime, Sakaguchi’s other pairing with Death Trance helmer Shimomura in Re:Born is now […]

CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI Lands An August Release, And A New Poster With Kento Yamazaki!

Lee B. Golden III

Actor and action star Tak Sakaguchi’s proliferation continues no less than Thursday’s unveiling of an official poster for Crazy Samurai Musashi. The official release date in Japan will be on August 21, whereby fans of the action star can undoubtedly expect to hear more on the film’s progression in the international circuit through 2021. Next to rejoining long time colleagues Sakaguchi and filmmaker/stunt maestro Yuji Shimomura, the film also signals a few more cast additions, namely the prospective billing of Sakaguchi’s Kingdom protagonist, actor Kento Yamazaki. An international trailer also began making the rounds as well through an extended intro video by way of the Wiiber YouTube channel last month. This film, taken around the time of “Out and Deluxe,” consists of the most famous battle of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. In this 77-minute, one-scene, no-cut action sequence, Miyamoto (TAK∴) defeats 588 enemies, one after the other. There is no […]

CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI International Trailer: Butterflies Fly And Body Parts Fall

Lee B. Golden III

You could say of the production and essential completion of action star Tak Sakaguchi‘s new period thriller, Crazy Samurai Musashi, that it’s been, in a word, challenging. Considering it’s been close to a decade since the start of it’s evolution, “challenging” might be understating things a bit. Needless to say, if you know the history and/or otherwise love Tak’s work, then a film like Crazy Samurai Musashi, now in the hands of stunt maestro and filmmaker Yuji Shimomura and producer Ota Takayuki, surely falls within your filmgoing purview. The film still awaits release date and further acquisition news going forward, but the star has since unveiled an international trailer via Wiiber in a fifteen minute video discussing the project (the trailer starts at the 00:25 mark). Save for the trailer itself, the rest of the video doesn’t have subtitles for Tak at the moment, but to give you a bit […]

CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI: Tak Sakaguchi Is A One Man Army In The Latest Sales Art Visual

Lee B. Golden III

It’s been the longest time coming for Tak Sakaguchi’s recent pairing with Yuji Shimomura, the now internationally titled Crazy Samurai Musashi. Production has seen more than its ample share of behind-the-scenes drama that have thankfully borne little affect on the carefully-played hand Sakaguchi dealt in the years since then. With extensive shoots and post-production in its wake along with a teaser last summer, Crazy Samurai Musashi now dons its first official world sales poster which you can view below. Plot details are nil though the teaser still pretty much speaks for itself as does the tagline in the artwork: 400 vs. 1 IN A SINGLE TAKE Yeah, I’m keen. My Theater D.D., Inc. is repping sales for the film, which is about all the info I can gather at the moment. In the meantime, check out the artwork below, along with last year’s teaser just beneath.