Wendell Jamieson writes about Japanese sword fight films for The New York Times: “I recently asked my sensei, then and now, Noboru Kataoka — himself an actor who goes as Ken Kensai — to name the greatest sword fight film of them all, and he answered, The Sword […]
Wildgrounds breaks down their most anticipated films of 2011.
Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune take a break from filming Sanjuro. Enjoy the juxtaposition of their Meiji era costumes against a 1960s city street.
It’s assassins galore with John Woo and Su Chao-Pin’s Reign of Assassins and Takashi Miike’s remake of the classic chanbara, Thirteen Assassins.
Norio Shioyama worked with Capcom to create a samurai short promoting Dead Rising 2. Very pretty.
Cat chanbara (i.e., kitties with katanas) at Cat’s Head Theatre.
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