Japan’s Ultra-Top-Tier Hit ‘Samurai Timeslipper’: Director Yasuda Junichi Makes a Surprise Visit to Korea on June 22
A crew of 10 and a total budget of 26 million yen—so low it’s almost unprecedented—has pushed box-office revenue past 1 billion yen.
〈Samurai Timeslipper〉 depicts the journey of an Edo-era samurai who is ‘time-slipped’ into a movie set and ends up working as a beheading specialist actor As the film was released in Japan, starting out in just one theater, word of mouth spread and showings expanded to about 380 theaters across the...
