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Like kunoichi (female ninja) and geisha, the onna-musha's conduct is seen as the ideal of Japanese women in movies, animations and TV series. In the West, the onna-musha gained popularity when the historical documentary Samurai Warrior Queens aired on the Smithsonian Channel. [42] [43] Several other channels reprised the documentary.
Koyuki appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 film Pulse. [1] [2]She rose to fame in the drama Kimi wa Petto (2003) with Jun Matsumoto and gained huge popularity. [1] Her first international film was The Last Samurai (2003) where she played Taka, wife of a Samurai slain by the character Nathan Algren, portrayed by Tom Cruise.
Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword [a] (also known as Left Fencer) is a 1969 Japanese samurai drama and action film, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda. [2] Michiyo Okusu plays the role of the one-eyed, one-armed swords-woman O-kin.
During a parade of samurai and their families and concubines, Seinosuke Koide, a samurai and artist affiliated to a Kanō school master, visits a print shop where he sees a woodcut print by Utamaro that boasts the superiority of his ukiyo-e style over the prevailing Chinese style. Enraged, he goes searching for Utamaro, announcing to teach him ...
Tomoe Gozen (巴 御前, Japanese pronunciation: [5]) was an onna-musha, a female samurai, mentioned in The Tale of the Heike. [6] There is doubt as to whether she existed as she doesn't appear in any primary accounts of the Genpei war. She only appears in the epic "The tale of the Heike".
Female Ninja Kagero Group (女忍かげろう組 ) [TV movie] Female Ninja Kagero Group 2 (女忍かげろう組 <弐>) [TV movie] Female Ninja Kagero Group 3 (女忍かげろう組 <参>) [TV movie] 1990.04.07 1990.09.26 1991.12.28 Yoshiwara Hiren Shinobi no Onna (吉原悲恋 忍びの女) [TV movie] 1991.12.23
Nemuri Kyoshirō, the master of the Engetsu ("Full Moon Cut") sword style, was a wandering "lone wolf" warrior plagued by the fact that he was fathered in less than honorable circumstance by a "fallen" Portuguese priest who had turned to worshipping Satan and a Japanese noblewoman whom the "fallen" priest had seduced and raped as part of a Black Mass and who had committed suicide after ...
Ichi (市) is a goze (blind woman) who is travelling Japan in search of her mentor, who was the actual Zatoichi.. She is befriended by a traveling samurai Toma Fujihira, who tells her that he rescued her from bandits (in fact, it was Ichi who saved them both by killing the bandits).