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Prisoners of the Ghostland 2021

Movie · 103 min · English, Japanese · January 31, 2021

Action thrillerFantasyWestern

Directed by Sion SonoWritten by Aaron Hendry, Reza Sixo Safai

Starring Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Bill Moseley, Nick Cassavetes, Tak Sakaguchi

Prisoners of the Ghostland is a 2021 American-Japanese arthouse dystopian acid Western film with horror and chanbara elements, directed by Sion Sono, from a script by Aaron Hendry and Reza Sixo Safai. It stars Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Bill Moseley and Nick Cassavetes. The story follows a dangerous outlaw named Hero (Cage), who is tasked with retrieving the governor's adopted granddaughter, who has vanished into a mysterious area known as Ghostland.

The movie made its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021. It opened in theaters and on video on demand on September 17, 2021, distributed by RLJE Films. Reviews from critics were generally mixed.

Cast

• Nicolas CageHero
• Sofia BoutellaBernice
• Bill MoseleyGovernor
• Nick CassavetesPsycho
• Tak SakaguchiYasujiro
• Yuzuka NakayaSusie
• Young DaisRatman
• Koto LorenaStella
• Canon NawataNancy
• Jai WestJay
• Charles GloverEnoch
• Cici ZhouChimera
• Louis KuriharaCuri
• Tetsu WatanabeNabe
• Takato YonemotoSheriff Takato
• Shin ShimizuDeputy Shin
• Matthew ChozickSheriff Matthew
• Constant VoisinConstant

Crew

Director

Sion Sono

Writer

Aaron Hendry, Reza Sixo Safai

Producer

Laura Rister, Michael Mendelsohn, Ko Mori, Reza Sixo Safai, Nate Bolotin

Cinematography

Sôhei Tanikawa

Editing

Taylor Levy

Music

Joseph Trapanese

Details

Production

Boss Boss Bang Bang, Eleven Arts, Patriot Pictures, Saturn Films, Union Patriot Capital Management, Untitled Entertainment

Distributor

Elysian Film Group, RLJE Films

Box office

$80,425

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