Vinegar Syndrome announced this past week that a new 4K film restoration of director Lance Mungia’s 1998 post-apocalyptic thriller, Six-String Samurai, will be heading home as part of the company’s “Halfway to Black Friday” promotion as a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.
Newly restored from the film’s 35mm negative, Six-String Samurai will ship over the Memorial Day weekend, so mark that, for street-date Tuesday purposes, as a June 1 street date.
Released on DVD at the dawn of the format in 1999 by the now defunct Ryko/Palm, this marks the first time that Mungai’s film has been available as either a Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD product offering.
In a mash-up of film genres, ranging from sci-fi to Spaghetti Western, from homage to rock’n’roll legends to Japanese samurai films … a buddy flick and more, we learn that a nuclear war with Russia in the 1950s has left the United States a vast wasteland, ruled by nomadic warlords and such.
Into this world (filmed in Death Valley) strides Buddy (Jeffrey Falcon), an homage himself to rock legend Buddy Holly. He is on his way to Las Vegas, now called “Lost Vegas,” where word is it that “The King” is dead and a new king is needed. It’s not long before he has an unwanted sidekick, The Kid (Justin McGuire), a young boy that he rescues from nomadic thugs.
This unlikely pair will embark upon a series of dangerous adventures and deadly encounters as they make their way to Lost Vegas … it is the journey, not the destination that makes Six-Sting Samurai the film that it is.
Bonus features include (more to be added) a newly-prepared commentary with writer/director Lance Mungia and a new making-of documentary co-directed by Lance Mungia and Elijan Drenner titled, Vegas Needs a New King: The Making of Six-String Samurai.
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