If you loved R100, try Scabbard Samurai

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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R100

2013 · dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto

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Both films are directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to R100, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Scabbard Samurai is

Here's a film with an odd premise that it somehow pulls off. A disgraced, swordless samurai is given a month to make a grieving young prince laugh, lest he be executed. It does, in fairness, contain an awful lot of funny faces.

If you loved R100, try Scabbard Samurai

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If you loved R100, try Scabbard Samurai

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