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John Maclean On Bringing Samurai Fighters To Britain In Sophomore Feature ‘Tornado’: “I Wanted To Make Something About Outsiders Of The Time” — Glasgow Film Festival
The 'Slow Horses' writer-director talks challenges of making second feature and bringing samurai fighters to 1790s Britain
The film, set in the rugged landscape of 1790s Britain, follows Tornado (Kōki), a young and determined woman who finds herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her father’s (Hira) traveling puppet samurai show crosses paths with a gang of ruthless criminals led by Sugarman (Roth) and his ambitious son Little Sugar (Lowden). Having a cast that included reputable actors such as Roth and Lowden helped, and Maclean credits their “generosity” in working on a film that predominantly hung on relative newcomer Kōki. Tornado was shot across 26 days in January 2024, ten miles outside of Edinburgh and Maclean admits that it was “foot to the floor – there was no time to breathe.”
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