Official Trailer
Our Review
- Jack Lowden, Rory McCann, Tim Roth, Takehiro Hira
- June 13th 2025
- 91
- John Maclean
This revenge western follows a young Japanese woman who is being chased by a gang of criminals over missing bags of gold.
Did you ever expect to see a samurai movie based in the Scottish Highlands? Us neither!
With Tornado, director John Maclean brings us a samurai western movie we never knew we needed.
Our titular character, Tornado (Kiko), is a young Japanese woman who works with her father Fujin (Takehiro Hira) in a travelling samurai puppet show in the Scottish Highlands.
After bags of stolen gold go missing, a gang of thieves led by Sugarman (Tim Roth) and his son Little Sugar (Jack Lowden) launch an offensive to find who took their money, and Tornado gets caught in the crossfire.
The film, set in 1790, drops us immediately into the middle of the action without any preamble or context. The opening scene shows the criminals chasing Tornado and a young boy over the harsh, blustery landscape.
The story is instantly gripping because you’re waiting to find out who Tornado is, what they think she’s done and why she is scared for her life and hiding...
