New Delhi, July 29 -- Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror films set within the neurotic realism of the modern day, will bring his signature edge-of-your-seat storytelling to a genre he has never tackled before: the samurai movie.

"I do want to do it once, and it looks like it might be really happening, although things are still uncertain. I may finally be able to make my samurai film," he told The Associated Press, noting he couldn't give much detail just yet.

His upcoming samurai film will not have sword-fight scenes or action-packed outdoor shots that characterize the genre, known as "jidaigeki." Instead, it will be the same creepy quiet narrative of Kurosawa movies, where the action takes place almost clau...