THE HAUNTED SWORDSMAN - 16min Suggested PG-13 - Short Bunraku Puppet film made with help of Big Island Artists!

From Kevin McTurk, the director of the award-winning short film The Mill at Calder's End (A PASSIONATE SENSE OF STORYTELLING IN A MEDIUM THAT BOTH ENSHRINES AND REINVENTS THE OLD CLASSICS." -Guillermo del Toro), comes a gothic horror adventure where a lone samurai and his odd companion, a cursed severed head, seek vengeance in a haunted world. Told with groundbreaking puppetry and innovative practical effects, The Haunted Swordsman is a live action samurai tale set in a world of demons and ghosts that utilizes 36 inch tall Japanese bunraku puppets, traditional in-camera effects and good old-fashioned smoke and mirrors trickery from 'The Spirit Cabinet' & Jim Henson's Studio's 'Creature Shop'. Directed by Kevin McTurk, starring Jason Scott Lee, James Hong, Franka Potente, Christopher Lloyd, and with help from Kozmo Mimzi's Ohana Arts Animation Theatre family team…