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Chanbara (チャンバラ), also commonly spelled "chambara", meaning "sword fighting" films, [1] denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to Western and swashbuckler films. Chanbara is a sub-category of jidaigeki, which equates to period drama.
He further claimed ""in order to get those in the movie, using the character of Manji was absolutely instrumental." [16] He said that he personally selected Kimura, "a superstar who made the transition from the Showa era to the Heisei era," as "the world's strongest member of the Miike Gang, the Ittō-ryū fighting school of our film industry ...
Quest for the Mighty Sword (1990) (Ator 4) Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back (1990) Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991) Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans (1991) Wizards of the Demon Sword (1991) [2] Army of Darkness (1992) Quest of the Delta Knights (1993) The NeverEnding Story III (1994) Yamato Takeru (1994) First Knight ...
Sword of the Beast: 1966: Come Drink with Me: The Sword of Doom: Dragon Inn: 1967: The One-Armed Swordsman: Eleven Samurai: 1969: Return of the One-Armed Swordsman: 1970: The Chinese Boxer: Vengeance: 1971: The Big Boss (a.k.a. Fists of Fury) Billy Jack: The Chase (a.k.a. The Shanghai Killers) The Duel (1971 film) (a.k.a. Duel of the Iron Fist ...
Infuriated by the rising number of "suicide bluffs", the three most senior samurai of the clan—Yazaki Hayato, Kawabe Umenosuke, and Omodaka Hikokuro—persuaded Saitō to force Motome to follow through and kill himself, ignoring his request for a couple of days delay. Upon examining Motome's swords, his blades were found to be made of bamboo ...
In Yojimbo, the protagonist defeats a man who carries a gun, while he carries only a knife and a sword; in the equivalent scene in A Fistful of Dollars, Eastwood's pistol-wielding character survives being shot by a rifle by hiding an iron plate under his clothes to serve as a shield against bullets. [citation needed]
House of Flying Daggers (Chinese: 十面埋伏; pinyin: Shímiàn máifú; lit. 'Ambush from ten sides') is a 2004 wuxia martial arts film [2] [3] directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro.
In his review in The New York Times, A. O. Scott described the film as "full of durable cinematic pleasures: a little sex, a lot of sword fighting and a plot that combines heady passion with complicated political intrigue." [4] Scott singled out Auteuil's performance delivered with "unabashed gusto and unexpected warmth." [4]