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Fantasia 2012: ‘A Boy And His Samurai’ a sweet, whimsical, funny, poignant, family fantasy

A Boy And His Samurai (Chonmage purin) Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura Screenplay by Yoshihiro Nakamura 2010, Japan Director Yoshihiro Nakamura really caught the attention of the Sound On Sight staff with his 2009 end-of-the-world punk rock film Fish Story. Last year, he made the equally impressive conspiracy thriller, Golden Slumber. Now he’s back, only this …

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Glasgow Film Festival 2012: ‘A Boy and His Samurai’ is a generally charming family film

A Boy and His Samurai Written and directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura Japan, 2010 Yoshihiro Nakamura’s fish-out-of-water comedy, based on a manga, concerns an Edo period samurai thrust forward in time to contemporary Tokyo and befriended by a single mother and her young son. Instead of a narrative rooted in the action film genre like one may …

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Fantastic Fest 2011: ‘A Boy and His Samurai’ has captured the hearts of Fantastic Fest attendees

A Boy And His Samurai (Chonmage purin) Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura Screenplay by Yoshihiro Nakamura 2010, Japan For three years running, director Yoshihiro Nakamura has captured the hearts of Fantastic Fest attendees. Fish Story (2009) and Golden Slumbers (2010) both took home honorable mentions in the audience award category, and this year’s A Boy and …

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Fantastic Fest 2011: The Director of ‘Fish Story’ is back with ‘A Boy And His Samurai’

Director Yoshihiro Nakamura really caught the attention of the Sound On Sight staff with his 2009 end-of-the-world punk rock film Fish Story. Last year, he made the equally impressive conspiracy thriller, Golden Slumber. Now he’s back, only this time he takes a radical turn and brings us a quiet, character-driven family film.

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Fantasia 2010: ‘Fish Story’ is a truly unique take on familiar ideas, revelling totally in the beauty of the absurd

Interweaving seemingly irrelevant storylines, Fish Story is about the interconnectedness of all aspects of our existence. It isn’t, however, a film about fate. It is about finding splendour in irrationality, and our individual potential to shape the world.

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