This 2002 movie tells the poignant story of Iguchi Seibei, a widowed samurai mockingly nicknamed ... The Raiders singer Mark Lindsay. The English dub for “Shogun Assassin” was also notably ...

Conversations about the work of Akira Kurosawa often center around his Western-inspired samurai films like Yojimbo ... Ikiru is one of Kurosawa's best movies, a powerful film that features one ...

Zatoichi, Harakiri, and Ugetsu are must-watch black & white movies for a cinematic experience. Kurosawa's Yojimbo combines action and comedy to create a famous samurai story. It’s natural that ...

Seki Nobuhide Sensei, a martial arts and katana instructor, rates portrayals of samurai battles in movies and TV shows. He explains why samurai employed different types of spears in battle in ...

At HiSui Tokyo we offer instruction on the dignity, conduct and movement of the samurai. "The Sword of Doom" (1966) A ronin is walking through a pine forest. He shuffles forward using suriashi ...

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This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Modeled on Toei), is asked by NHK to make a new samurai era program using the most advanced ...

The castle was besieged during the 1887 Satsuma Rebellion, on which the 2003 Hollywood movie The Last Samurai is very loosely based, and was defended for more than 50 days by a vastly outnumbered ...

And he was determined to add a samurai element. Eoin Carey Filmmaker John Maclean, third from the left, with Tornado cast members at the film's world premiere which launched the Glasgow Film ...