NYAFF12 REVIEW: Saya-zamurai [Scabbard Samurai] [2011]

Posted by on July 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

“Why did it have to rain?” Sometimes foreign language films simply exist across an insurmountable cultural divide that renders them indecipherable here. Hitoshi Matsumoto‘s Saya-zamurai [Scabbard Samurai] perfectly exemplifies through an obtusely constructed first third before hitting its stride. Comically uneven at the start, I was left scratching my head and wondering if I was […]

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