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Samurai cinema. 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. Chanbara is a sub-category of ...
The Last Samurai (1974 film) The Last Samurai. (1974 film) The Last Samurai (Japanese: 狼よ落日を斬れ) also known as "Ōkami yo Rakujitsu o Kire" is a 1974 Japanese jidaigeki film, directed by Kenji Misumi. [1] Based on Shōtarō Ikenami 's novel "Sonootoko". [2][3] The film is Kenji Misumi's last film. [4][5]
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (座頭市と用心棒) is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. [1][2] It is the 20th of a series of films featuring the blind swordsman Zatoichi. [3] The main character is based on a fictional character, a blind masseur and swordmaster. He was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa and set during the late ...
L. Lady Snowblood (film) Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance. The Last Samurai (1974 film)
Shōgun is a 1980 American historical drama miniseries based on James Clavell 's 1975 novel of the same name. The series was produced by Paramount Television and first broadcast in the United States on NBC over five nights between September 15 and 19, 1980. It was written by Eric Bercovici and directed by Jerry London, and stars Richard ...
Category:Samurai films. The main article for this category is Samurai cinema. This category is for films about samurai, or in which samurai are important to the plot. See Cinema of Japan for more further information.
The Samurai is a Japanese historical fiction television series made by Senkosha Productions during the early 1960s. Its original Japanese title was Onmitsu Kenshi ( 隠密剣士 , "Spy Swordsman") . The series premiered in 1962 on TBS and ran continuously until 1965 for ten self-contained story arcs (seasons), usually of 13 episodes each.
The movie acknowledges its debt to Seven Samurai by calling the protagonist's homeworld Akir and its inhabitants the Akira. The plot of Seven Samurai was re-worked for The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983), an Italian sword-and-sandal film. The 2004 video game Seven Samurai 20XX is a re-telling of Seven Samurai in a futuristic setting.