A SAMURAI IN TIME: Pre-Orders Are Up For Junichi Yasuda’s Adoring Time Travel Samurai Flick
Junichi Yasuda’s A SAMURAI IN TIME is coming soon on Region Free Blu-Ray next month from Third Window Films!
Junichi Yasuda’s A SAMURAI IN TIME is coming soon on Region Free Blu-Ray next month from Third Window Films!
4.5 min. read To say the Covid-19 pandemic was a challenging factor to film and TV production was an understatement. Still, with a little gumption and good faith investment, filmmakers like Junichi Yasuda could make themselves and film fans whole, which is exactly the case for his latest fish-out-of-water fantasy dramedy, A Samurai In Time, which screens for the 28th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival. Directed from a script also written by Yasuda, the first five minutes are set in late 19th century Edo, with Shogunate loyalist Shinzaemon Kasara (Makiya Yamaguchi) on the cusp of dueling a legendary young, anti-Shogunate samurai moments before being struck by lightning. Dazed and daunted by morning, Kasara awakens only to realize that not only he isn’t where he’s supposed to be, but also, when. Between getting excoriated and stared at by a jidaigeki cast and crew who think he’s a wayward background […]
Kenju To Medamayaki and Gohan director Junichi Yasuda will bring the swordsmanship and sharp laughs to Japan cinemas this year with his new adventure, A Samurai In Time. The official trailer finally arrived the other day featuring Makiya Yamaguchi, who spent much of the past decade or so in the TV arena before returning to film with 2019 period flick, Sho Igarashi’s Ninomiya Kinjirou. At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, during a stormy night a samurai prepares to fight against a ronin, when a flash of lighting hits and when he wakes up to find himself in a different time. He has been transported through time to the present day and the location where he was about to duel is now a film set for jidaigeki TV shows and movies. Still in his samurai clothes he is mistaken for an extra and immediately thrust into the world […]