a road movie, sometimes absurd, not jarmusch, not kaurismaeki, but there are some minutes one might think so. people seem to sing a lot in iceland. nordic landscape, an old red citroen, hijacking, snow, and Masatoshi Nagase as Hirata. not a samurai, just a stranger. (jim stark, credited as writer, has been executive producer of 3 or 4 jarmusch-movies, "night on earth" among others