meaning "sword fighting" films, denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to Western and swashbuckler films...

compared the film to westerns. Seven Samurai is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films in cinema history. Since its release, it has...

on DVD in 2013 and Blu-ray in 2014 by Cinema Epoch. There were rumors that the initial released cut of Samurai Cop was a print that had been found in...

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an homage to the 1973 film Lady Snowblood, grindhouse cinema, martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation and spaghetti Westerns. It features an...

Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as an homage to grindhouse cinema including martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation, and spaghetti westerns. Like its...

dacoit films with that of Spaghetti Westerns along with elements of Samurai cinema. Sholay is also a defining example of the masala film, which mixes several...

historically authentic as possible. The team was heavily inspired by samurai cinema, particularly films directed by Akira Kurosawa, as well as the comic...

"chambara", meaning "sword fighting" movies, denotes the genre called samurai cinema in English, and is roughly equivalent to western cowboy and swashbuckler...

Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance (also titled Revenge of the Samurai Cop) is a 2015 American action film directed and co-written by Gregory Hatanaka, a...

of films Stander enjoyed. He was inspired by the Eastern culture of samurai cinema and wanted a vulnerable yet lethal protagonist similar to those from...

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Blue Eye Samurai is an adult animated action television series created and written by wife-and-husband team Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, with supervising...

a few years earlier in Los Angeles, when a friend who was a fan of samurai cinema took him to watch Yojimbo at a Western Avenue theater that ran Japanese...

Samurai is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language vigilante action thriller film written and directed by Balaji Sakthivel in his directoral debut and produced by...

Samurai Jack is an American animated action-adventure dystopian television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. The...

become a samurai to save a cat village from a conniving landlord. The project was first conceived by producer Yair Landau in 2010 as Blazing Samurai in response...

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 crime drama film written, produced and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character...

before the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Jidaigeki show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of their time. Jidaigeki films are sometimes...

various sources; the lists below only consider box office earnings at cinemas, not other sources of income such as merchandising or home video. The lists...

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (侍戦隊シンケンジャー, Samurai Sentai Shinkenjā, Samurai Squadron Shinkenger) is the title of Toei Company's thirty-third entry in its...

Pink." Bornoff, Nicholas (1994) [1991]. "Bye-Bye Pink Cinema, Hello Adult Video". Pink Samurai: An Erotic Exploration of Japanese Society; The Pursuit...

Yoroi Samurai Zombie (Japanese: 鎧サムライゾンビ, Hepburn: Yoroi: Samurai zonbi) is a 2008 Japanese comic horror film directed by Tak Sakaguchi and written by...

the 1970s. These portrayed modern yakuza not as honorable heirs to the samurai code, but as ruthless street thugs living for their own desires. In the...

spirit which reminded them of the bushido spirit depicted in older Samurai cinema. Fist of Fury became the year's seventh highest-grossing film in Japan...

played a central role in the development of the modern jidaigeki and samurai cinema. Born in Ehime Prefecture, Itō joined the actors school at Shochiku...

Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7541-8. Standish, Isolde (2006-05-08). A New History of Japanese Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing...

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