Stockholm Film Festival

Musashi Miyamoto is the most famous samurai of all time, an icon imprinted in eternity, through his appearances in fictional works of literature, comics, video games and cinema. From the pen of Mamoru Oshii, acclaimed director of "Ghost in the Shell", comes a documentary that adheres to Flaherty's classical definition of documentary as "the creative treatment of actuality".

Essentially a highly specialized, and very specific university lecture, the film's director Mizuho Nishikubo blends classical narrative traditions with the most expressive aspects of Japanese pop culture. The outcome is an inspired documentary with a vital edge of mixed media. 3D animations, video game demonstrations and anime sequences inspired by silent cinema - all become rhetorical tools in this lecture, revealing future possibilities of historicizing. As Oshii himself puts it: "I really love making up lies, and if I can spur talk on just how far the movie is true, then it's fantastic."
SEBASTIAN LINDVALL

Orig. title

Miyamoto Musashi: Soken ni Haseru Yume

Cast

Takayuki Sugo

Producer

Francesco Prandoni

Script

Mamoru Oshii

Cinematography

Hisashi Ezura

Music

Takeharu Kunimoto

Spoken language

Japanska

Subtitle

English

 

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