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Jidaigeki is a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning " period dramas ", it refers to stories that take place before the Meiji Restoration of 1868. [ 1 ]
The "jidaigeki" film genre corresponds to the "period drama" of other nations. "Chambara" corresponds to sword fighting films. Though Samurai films make up the bulk of these films, there are many others which also fit this group.
Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (忠臣蔵 花の巻 雪の巻, Chushingura: Story of Flower, Story of Snow) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki epic film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Studios, it is based on the story of the forty-seven rōnin.
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Japanese films gained popularity in the mid-1920s against foreign films, in part fueled by the popularity of movie stars and a new style of jidaigeki. Directors such as Daisuke Itō and Masahiro Makino made samurai films like A Diary of Chuji's Travels and Roningai featuring rebellious antiheroes in fast-cut fight scenes that were both ...
Jidaigeki show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of their time. Jidaigeki films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight", though chambara is more accurately a subgenre of jidaigeki , which equates to historical period drama .
Jidaigeki films (2 C, 162 P) S. Samurai in anime and manga (3 C, 89 P) T. Jidaigeki television series (96 P) Pages in category "Jidaigeki" The following 22 pages are ...
Lady Snowblood (Japanese: 修羅雪姫, Hepburn: Shurayuki-hime) is a 1973 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Toshiya Fujita and starring Meiko Kaji. [2] Based on the manga series of the same name by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura, the film recounts the tale of Yuki (Kaji), a woman who seeks vengeance upon three of the people who raped her mother and killed her half brother.