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“Candyman” director Bernard Rose has helmed a new Japanese film, “Samurai Marathon,” which HanWay Films will introduce to buyers in Berlin. The picture has an original score by Philip ...

While the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy, which grew to five films, has a longer total runtime, Samurai Marathon carries an epic scope and weaving plots that infuse every moment with tension. The film is ...

Everyone under fifty must compete in a marathon the following day; the winner may ask a wish of the master which he will grant. But as the samurai are summoned by a rumbling war drum, speculation ...

This quirky episode provides the basis for "Samurai Marathon," a lavish, heavily fictionalized jidaigeki (period film) brought to us by Bernard Rose, the British director of "Candyman" and ...