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Six-String Samurai is a 1998 post-apocalyptic action/comedy film directed by Lance Mungia. Brian Tyler composed the score for this film, along with the Red Elvises who provided a majority of the soundtrack.

Six-String Samurai was greeted with a great deal of excitement when shown at Slamdance in 1998, winning the Slamdance awards for best editing and cinematography, and gathering extremely favorable reviews from influential alternative, cult and indie film publications such as Fangoria, Film Threat
and Ain't It Cool News. Film Threat, in fact, went so far as to call it "the best indie film of 1998".

Nevertheless, the film was a box-office disappointment -- the $2,000,000 film made less than $200,000 in a limited theatrical release, though it did play for several months in a few theaters, gaining a reputation as a minor cult film. An intended trilogy failed to materialize, as did the predicted launching of the career of the film's star, Jeffrey Falcon, a martial artist who had appeared in several Hong Kong action movies. Mungia made several music videos, but did not direct another feature until the 2005 film, The Crow: Wicked Prayer
.

Six-String Samurai is set in an alternate history America, in which Russia launched several nuclear warheads at the US immediately after World War II, reducing the United States to an inhospitable desert. The government has entirely collapsed save for the Kingdom of Elvis, who rules from Lost Vegas. As the movie begins, Elvis has died and all musical virtuosos are travelling to Lost Vegas to try to become the new King of Rock'n'Roll.

Buddy (Jeffrey Falcon), a Buddy Holly look-alike, is one of the musicians converging on Lost Vegas on the death of The King. Early in his travels he finds himself obliged to take care of a kid, named Kid (Justin McGuire). While Buddy resents having to look after the Kid, the Kid turns out to prove his worth in a few key situations.

Buddy comes across many people in his travels, ranging from a zombie-like, cannibal suburban family to the 'windmill people' who appear to be the remnants of the Area 51 staff, to the filthy tribals that make up most of the civilian population. He also combats many foes, including a samurai, a bowling team of bounty-hunters, a Russian surf band (The Red Elvises), and the Russian army laying siege to Lost Vegas. His greatest foe, however, is a sinister Slash look-alike who might be the god of death, and is dedicated to killing all his rivals for the title of New King of Rock'N'Roll.

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