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The Sword (剣, Ken) is a 1964 Japanese film directed by Kenji Misumi. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] From a screenplay by Kazuro Funabashi, based upon the short story Ken ( Sword ) by Yukio Mishima . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
After seeing a samurai movie featuring a dual-wielding fighter as a child, she has always wanted to fight with two swords, and planned to compete in two-sword style as adult. As such, she is a strong opponent capable of using the two-sword style of kendo, despite high school competitions prohibiting the use of the two sword technique.
Waki-gamae (脇構), sometimes shortened to waki, is one of the five stances in kendo: jōdan, chūdan, gedan, hassō and waki, as well as other related and older martial arts involving Japanese sword. Waki-gamae is a stance involving the swordsman hiding the length of one's own blade behind their body, only exposing the pommel to the opponent ...
A distinguishing feature of many kenjutsu syllabi is the use of a paired katana or daitō and wakizashi or shōtō, commonly referred to as nitōjutsu (二刀術, two sword methods). Styles that teach it are called nitōryū (二刀流, two sword school); contrast ittō-ryū (一刀流, one sword school).
Hyohō Niten Ichi-ryū (兵法 二天 一流), which can be loosely translated as "the school of the strategy of two heavens as one", is a koryū (ancient school), transmitting a style of classical Japanese swordsmanship conceived by Miyamoto Musashi.
Jordan Hoffman of The Guardian gave the film four stars out of five, noting that "the fun really shines when the film revels in the outlandish weapons: enormous double-pronged swords, an axe that looks more like a sharp anvil, blades attached to staffs, blades attached to chains, shurikens for all occasions, etc. ... if you are going to see one ...
Knots Landing, the long-running spinoff of Dallas — and the third most sought-after, non-streaming show in a July 2023 TVLine poll — is now available to binge in all its 344-episode glory on Plex.
Musashi no Ken (六三四の剣, lit. ' Musashi's Sword ') is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Motoka Murakami that focuses on kendo.It was serialized by Shogakukan in Weekly Shōnen Sunday between April 1981 and October 1985. [3]