Two Samurai
Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune take a break from filming Sanjuro. Enjoy the juxtaposition of their Meiji era costumes against a 1960s city street.
Interview with Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Tartakovsky talks live-action and animation (Dexter’s Lab, Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Sym-Bionic Titan) in an interview with Animation World Network.(via @aicnanime)
Samurai Dead Rising
Norio Shioyama worked with Capcom to create a samurai short promoting Dead Rising 2. Very pretty.
Duel of Cats
Cat chanbara (i.e., kitties with katanas) at Cat’s Head Theatre.
RoboGeisha: The Geisha War Begins
“Geisha is Robot.” Geisha fight samurai, giant temples and lady tengu. Geisha also transform.
So Many Fukasaku Kinji Soundtracks!
Don’t have enough soundtracks by Japanese composers? Wild Grounds will help you out with “The 5 Japanese Film Composers You Must Know” and a whole section of downloadable soundtracks and excerpts from Yojimbo to Battle Without Honor or Humanity.
