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Six-String Samurai

Six-String Samurai

Lance Mungia

  • 1998
  • USA
  • 1h31mn
  • Original version with French subtitles
  • Color
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After the atom bomb, the Russians have taken over the USA, renamed the United States of Russia. Following the death of Elvis, after his 40 year reign over Las Vegas, a new king is needed. A Buddy Holly look alike rocker, warrior and lone guitarist, sets off for Las Vegas with an orphan he’s saved to replace the King. The road will be fraught with perils.
After a booze soaked night, Mad Max, the Baby Cart’s lone wolf and the Leningrad Cowboys decided to write a film together. Here's the result! The postulate is no less absurd than this inventive, wacky, hyperactive post-apocalyptic movie, happily mixing scifi, chamabara, westerns, road movies and wild surf rock; it gives the viewer the feeling of being permanently drunk. Another vodka anyone?

Adilkhan Yerzhanov

Carefree trash cinema that doesn't pretend to be anything else.

But in the hero's image and modus operandi lies an impossible contradiction—my favorite oxymoron: rock 'n' roll and samurai.

Mutually exclusive concepts, yet the film reconciles them.

The character fights—and dances at the same time.

Whatever happens, joy and genre-bending spectacle pour from the screen in cascades.

What saves the film from nonsense is its deep and touching ending—unexpected and poignant.

To me, Six-String Samurai is an example of forgotten trash cinema, wrapped in gold.

Screenings

11/09 • 17h00 • Screen 300
Screening presented by Adilkhan Yerzhanov

Credits

  • With : Jeffrey Falcon, Justin McGuire, Kim De Angelo, Stephane Gauger, Clifford Hugo...
  • Screenplay : Jeffrey Falcon, Lance Mungia
  • Photography : Kristian Bernier
  • Editing : James Frisa
  • Music by : The Red Elvises, Brian Tyler
  • Production : Leanna Creel, Jeffrey Falcon, Lance Mungia