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East meets west with violent consequences as the trailer for director John Maclean’s bloody action-drama Tornado roars online. A young woman must use her deadly skill set to survive the untamed landscape when a ruthless group of thieves set their sights on her. Little do they know that this isn’t a damsel in distress, and they will unfortunately learn the lesson the hard way and as fast as a cut from the sword of the samurai. Check out the new trailer below!
Set in 1790, Tornado follows the journey of a young woman who must confront the violent thieves who are chasing her. From the director of Slow West, John Maclean, and starring Tim Roth, Jack Lowden, Takeiro Hira, and Kōki, this gripping action drama is coming soon to cinemas.
This looks more like a slow burn potboiler than all out Samurai versus Cowboys onslaught, but is should still contain hits of hyper-violence and some action design. Maclean talked about his motivation for making this film by reading about former Samurai relocating to other countries when times were changing.
This trope has been done a few times before like I said with the aforementioned Red Sun which starred Charles Bronson, Toshirō Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, and Capucine as well as most recently with 2010’s The Warrior’s Way which was about a warrior/assassin who travels to the American Badlands to hide after refusing to take on a mission. That movie was ripe with neo-noirish tints of fantasy infused with gritty, unflinching realism with genre bending action sequences. Unfortunately, a supporting cast that included Jang Dong-gun, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush and Danny Huston couldn’t rise this one to another level with audiences and it was quickly forgotten.
Tornado hits theaters on June 13th!
