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

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 […]