Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
KILLING
Zan
Synopsis
In exchange for board and lodging, samurai Mokunoshi assists a couple of village farmers. When the ronin Sawamura suddenly appears and asks Mokunoshi to go on a mission, while at the same time a group of bandits are stalking the farms, the peaceful existence of the village comes under threat.
Synopsis
In exchange for board and lodging, samurai Mokunoshi assists a couple of village farmers. When the ronin Sawamura suddenly appears and asks Mokunoshi to go on a mission, while at the same time a group of bandits are stalking the farms, the peaceful existence of the village comes under threat.
Our take
Destabilizing the conventions of samurai cinema with his jagged montage style, Shin’ya Tsukamoto brings a feral wildness—and a synth score!—to his first period film. An ultra-violent parable written in blood, Killing cuts through the trappings of honor and masculinity with startling subversiveness.