By Naman Ramachandran, Elsa Keslassy
Courtesy of Janus Films, Cannes Film Festival Kurosawa Kiyoshi‘s “The Samurai and the Prisoner,” which had its world premiere in the Cannes Premiere section, has attracted distribution deals spanning multiple territories through sales agent Charades.
Distributed by Shochiku in Japan, the film has crossed JPY1.1 billion ($7.1 million) at the Japanese box office on 800,000 admissions.
Janus Films holds rights for the U.S. and Canada, where the film has grossed some $800,000. Charades has sold the film to Blue Finch Film for the U.K., I Wonder Pictures for Italy, Arthouse for France, Adso Films for Spain, Film4you for Portugal, Mars Films for Turkey and Cinemart for Czech Republic and Slovakia. Palace Entertainment holds rights for Australia and New Zealand. In Asia, Studio DHL has taken South Korea, Sky Digi Entertainment Taiwan, Singapore Film Society Singapore and Falcon Indonesia. Paradise MGN covers the Baltics and CIS, while MCF Megacom Film has taken Ex-Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Bofrato holds airline rights.
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