David Crow May 7, 2019
Chadwick Boseman will play Yasuke, a slave from East Africa who becomes the first Samurai not born of Asian descent.
Feudal Japan is a long way from Wakanda, but that is also the appeal of Yasuke, a new period piece project about the first African samurai to wield a katana. The film, which was announced via Deadline, will showcase Chadwick Boseman in the real legend of Yasuke, a man who was raised a slave only to become a samurai.
The project, which is being written by Doug Miro (Narcos), follows Yasuke’s journey as a native of Portuguese Mozambique that gets carried to Japan by Jesuit priests as a personal slave. Once there, however, he attracts the intrigue of a shogun warlord named Nobunaga, who is fascinated by the first black man to set foot on Japanese soil. Additionally, Nobunaga is attempting to unite all of the...
Chadwick Boseman will play Yasuke, a slave from East Africa who becomes the first Samurai not born of Asian descent.
Feudal Japan is a long way from Wakanda, but that is also the appeal of Yasuke, a new period piece project about the first African samurai to wield a katana. The film, which was announced via Deadline, will showcase Chadwick Boseman in the real legend of Yasuke, a man who was raised a slave only to become a samurai.
The project, which is being written by Doug Miro (Narcos), follows Yasuke’s journey as a native of Portuguese Mozambique that gets carried to Japan by Jesuit priests as a personal slave. Once there, however, he attracts the intrigue of a shogun warlord named Nobunaga, who is fascinated by the first black man to set foot on Japanese soil. Additionally, Nobunaga is attempting to unite all of the...
- 5/7/2019
- Den of Geek
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