Film
Prisoners of the Ghostland
- Director
- Sion Sono
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 103 mins
Subversive Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono made his breakthrough in 2001 with one of those films you’d never be allowed to make in the Age of Cancellation: Suicide Club, which opened memorably with 54 chattering Japanese schoolgirls hurling themselves in front of a speeding train. So he was always going to be a perfect fit for Nicolas Cage in this magnificently bonkers phase of his career.
Billed as a neo-noir western action flick, Sono’s first English-language film is a suitably preposterous post-apocalypse romp in which a ruthless bank robber (Cage) is sprung from jail, taken to the lawless frontier Samurai Town and equipped by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley) with a pair of exploding torusers (no kidding). He now has just five days to recover the bad guy’s missing adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella).
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