If Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven is an anti-western, then Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner is the anti-samurai movie. Though Kiyoshi has the same last name as Akira Kurosawa, the late, legendary master of samurai films, Kiyoshi takes a very different approach to his storytelling and its presentation. With this latest entry, Kiyoshi deconstructs the… Continue reading THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER: The Unforgiven of Samurai Films
Day: August 1, 2026
ONE NIGHT ONLY Is a Bizarre and Mostly Unamusing Exercise In Facism
The central premise of the romantic comedy, One Night Only, is that the U.S government is regulating when single people can have premarital sex. The two protagonists of the film, a couple of single people who keep crossing paths on the one night that singles can have sex without criminal repercussions, is a very scary… Continue reading ONE NIGHT ONLY Is a Bizarre and Mostly Unamusing Exercise In Facism