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Actors playing samurai and ronin at Kyoto's Eigamura film studio. 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.
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The following is a list of works, both in film and other media, for which the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa made some documented creative contribution. This includes a complete list of films with which he was involved (including the films on which he worked as assistant director before becoming a full director), as well as his little-known contributions to theater, television and literature.
Mifune in 1939. Toshiro Mifune was born on April 1, 1920, in Seitō, Japanese-occupied Shandong (present-day Qingdao, China), the eldest son of Tokuzo and Sen Mifune. [12] His father Tokuzo was a trade merchant and photographer who ran a photography business in Qingdao and Yingkou, and was originally the son of a medical doctor from Kawauchi, Akita Prefecture. [13]
The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in Japan. ... Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X) 12.58 2012 [129] Digimon: 11.41 1999 [aj] 20th Century Boys: 11.37 2008
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Three Japanese films from this decade (Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Tokyo Story) appeared in the top ten of Sight & Sound ' s critics' and directors' polls for the best films of all time in 2002. [42] They also appeared in the 2012 polls, [ 43 ] [ 44 ] with Tokyo Story (1953) dethroning Citizen Kane at the top of the 2012 directors' poll .