Now this is an odd one. A samurai film... in some surreal version of modern day Finland?
This film isn't really like anything else I've seen. It's so strange in a completely pointless way that it's difficult to say whether it's really poor or actually amazing.
The storyline sort of makes sense but also doesn't. It feels like a fable or a fairy tale, but so dark and odd... there's something dreamlike and nightmarish about the whole film. The closest comparison I can think of is Jodorowsky, at least visually.
There's some dark, deadpan humour involved, and several musical numbers. The director of the film had only made music videos before this, and it shows. Technically the whole film is nothing short of a miracle - they worked on a budget of 50 000, and the only people ever involved in a film production before were the sound guy and some of the actors.
Still, looking at the result, you wouldn't know that it's an amateur production. Finnish cinema in general is quite bad, since the film industry is small and there isn't a lot of money to go around, which results in making all of the safest, most boring choices possible (such as recreating film franchises that have been succesful elsewhere). If nothing else, Samurai Rauni shows that making a film that stands out isn't dependent on money, but rather on an original idea combined with a strong vision.