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The nagamaki was a long sword with a blade that could be 60 cm (24 in) or more and a handle of about equal length to the blade. [3] The blade was single-edged, resembling a naginata blade, but the handle (tsuka) of the nagamaki was not a smooth-surfaced wooden shaft as in the naginata; it was made more like a katana hilt.
Asahinagu (Japanese: あさひなぐ) is a 2017 Japanese film based around the martial art of the naginata and fencing. It was directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa [ 2 ] and is based on the sports/slice of life manga also called Asahinagu by Ai Kozaki.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 仁義なき戦い, Hepburn: Jingi Naki Tatakai) is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.The screenplay by Kazuo Kasahara adapts a series of newspaper articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi, that were rewrites of a manuscript originally written by real-life yakuza Kōzō Minō.
[8] [19] In Japan there is a saying about swords: "No sword made by modifying a naginata or a nagamaki is dull in cutting" (薙刀（長巻）直しに鈍刀なし). The meaning of this saying is that naginata and nagamaki are equipment for actual combat, not works of art or offerings to the kami , and that the sharpness and durability of ...
), also known as Another Battle, is a 2000 Japanese yakuza film directed by Junji Sakamoto. It is a remake of Kinji Fukasaku 's Battles Without Honor and Humanity series from the 1970s, which were adapted from a series of newspaper articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi , [ 1 ] that were rewrites of a manuscript originally written by real-life ...
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (Japanese: 仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦, Hepburn: Jingi Naki Tatakai: Chojo Sakusen) is a 1974 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the fourth film in a five-part series that Fukasaku made in a span of just two years.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up once again for “Animals,” a new crime thriller that Netflix has just acquired. Affleck will direct, with Damon starring, from a script by Connor ...
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (Japanese: 仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇, Hepburn: Jingi Naki Tatakai: Hiroshima Shitō-hen), also known as Hiroshima Death Match, is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.