It wasn’t my intention to see Nolan’s blockbuster Odyssey side by side with an advance screening of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner. For Lord Murashige, who rallies his clans against Oda Nobunaga, tempting the wrath of the gods might be worth the consequence. While his court has their misgivings, Murashige regularly defies the samurai way, refusing to torture or execute prisoners of war. His personal code is tested when the son of a traitor, refused an honorable end, turns up dead anyway, killed by a seemingly impossible arrow. It’s then that Murashige turns to an unlikely ally, one of Nobunaga’s advisors chained up in the basement, to solve the increasingly bizarre string of mysteries occurring in his house.