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As we’re seeing with Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman, a filmmaker’s work can live on long after they’ve passed away. When it comes to the Citizen Kane director, we’re getting a movie he actually directed next year, but for others their unproduced screenplays are seeing the light of day. Earlier this year, we learned that Akira Kurosawa‘s Edgar Allan Poe adaptation The Mask of the Black Death is being turned into a film aiming for a 2020 release, and it looks like it is only the tip of the iceberg.

The Chinese gaming company Jinke Entertainment has now acquired nine (!) unfilmed Kurosawa screenplays from Kurosawa Production Co., run by the late director’s grandson Takayuki Kato. Despite the company’s origins, these won’t be getting videogame adaptations, but rather fully-fledged cinema productions, the first being Silvering Spear, a Samurai story set during Japan’s Warring States period, which will kick off production next year, according to THR.

“We are deeply humbled that our first film project will be that of one of the cinema world’s most revered directors,” Jinke Entertainment’s Zhang Zhengfeng says. “We’re pleased to have the full support of Mr. Kurosawa’s family and team on this important endeavor, and will honor the work of the Asian film master by creating a high-quality production of one of his last film projects.”

Check out the synopsis below for their first production, which will be in the Chinese language, and in an interesting development, they note that other ones (which haven’t been revealed yet) could be adapted in other languages.

Silvering Spear tells the story of a samurai named Ishigaki Jyube who demonstrates remarkable marksmanship while living during the Warring States period, a turbulent time in Japan’s history. Ishigaki Jyube searches for a way to utilize his special talents, while not exploiting them for personal gain.

The Samurai aspires to be a leader who would help to usher in a peaceful time for all. Dedicated to this lofty goal, he refuses to casually pursue his marksmanship talent as a means of subsistence. However, as circumstances in the country go from bad to worse, Ishigaki Jyube’s spear finally becomes a useful tool, when he is tricked into a scam and manipulated by a gang of bandits.

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