Details on Tak Sakaguchi’s next project as a director, “Samurai Zombie”
Posted by Kevin Ouellette on June 26, 2008 10:54am EDT (4 years ago)
Filed under: Comedy, Horror, Future releases
Tak Sakaguchi’s second directorial effort, Samurai Zombie (Yoroi) will premiere at this year’s upcoming Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan). Here’s the official description from the festival’s website:
Plot: A family is kidnapped by a couple who have guns. Wandering lost, they get together in a place where there are zombies in samurai armor. Encountering zombies and police, reunited family struggle and get to confront a tragic secret. A fun action-horror on the low budget B-movie.
The word “Yoroi” means samurai armor so given that synopsis it makes sense. Not much more info is available on the project right now, but Sakaguchi did briefly talk about it in an interview last month. Apparently Ryuhei “Hollywood” Kitamura wrote the screenplay, produced, and did all the casting. Oh that diabolical puppet-master. As for cast info it’s pretty scattered right now; but so far we know about Issei Ishida, up-and-coming actor Arata Yamanaka, and cross-dressing television personality Yakkun Sakuraduka in his first starring role (as a man). As far as I know Sakaguchi does not have a role, since he had his hands full with directing.
Here’s a picture of Arata Yamanaka during filming, from his blog:
Yamanaka didn’t offer much info but did say it’s got a unique flair not seen in recent Japanese movies and is more of a comedy than a typical horror.
Sakiguchi says it’s basically just a fun splatter horror flick with limbs flying all over the place and we should all look forward to it. Oh we will Taku-san, we will.
Sidenote: In the same interview Sakiguchi reiterated the fact that Versus 2 probably isn’t happening any time soon, but since the story was about his and Hideo Sakaki’s characters facing off at different points through space-time we could actually consider Alive and Be a Man! Samurai School to be sequels themselves. Of course, he was doing some PR for the “Be a Man!” premium edition DVD at the time, so it may have just been salesman rhetoric.
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