Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s First-Ever Period Drama ‘Kokurojo: The Samurai and The Prisoner,’ Based on Award-Winning Novel, Boarded by Charades

Ana Maria Rus

Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa ‘s (“Wife of a Spy”) very first period film and most ambitious feature to date, “Kokurojo: The Samurai and The Prisoner,” has been boarded by Charades in the run up to the Berlinale’s European Film Market. Set in 16th century Japan, “Kokurojo” is a feudal mystery adapted from Honobu Yonezawa’s award-winning historical novel “Kokurojo” (“The Samurai and the Prisoner”) which was published by Kadokawa Corporation in 2021 and made history in Japan by sweeping all