KIKYO: THE RETURN First Trailer Teases An Aging Samurai Battling The Odds
Director Shigemichi Sugita’s new film is finally rolling out the first bits of footage in a new pair of trailers for Kikyo: The Return. The film took to MIPCOM several months ago and eventually screened with a star-studded affair for the 32nd Tokyo International Film Festival. The film stars acclaimed Lifetime Achievement Award-winning actor Tatsuya Nakadai, whose distinguished, eclectic career dates back as far as Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954), Masaki Kobayashi’s Hara-kiri (1962) and Kihachi Okamoto’s Sword Of Doom (1966) to name a few. Shot using 8K technology, Nakadai plays a man who falls ill at the end of his thirty year journey and returns to his hometown where he decides to save a girl in dire straits. Sugita directs from a script he wrote alongside Masahiro Kobayashi, based on “Kikyo” by Shuhei Fujisawa, which sits among a collection of his short novels, “Matazo no Hi” from Bungei Shunju. […]
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