Editing Category:Chanbara

'''チャンバラ''' AKA Samurai cinema In Japan, the term chanbara, also commonly spelled "chambara", is literally "sword fighting" movies, roughly equating to western swashbuckler films. Chanbara is a sub-category of jidaigeki, which equates to period drama. Jidaigeki may refer to a story set in an historical period, though not necessarily dealing with a samurai character or depicting swordplay.

Movies in this genre that we can include:

* Serpent (1925)
* Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
* The 47 Ronin (1941)
* Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955)
* Samurai Saga (1959)
* Destiny's Son (1962)
* Samurai Spy (1965)
* Kill! (1968)
* Hitokiri (1969)
* Demons (1971)
* Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)
* Lady Snowblood (1973)
* Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
* Samurai Fiction (1998)
* Taboo (1999)
* The Twilight Samurai (2002)
* Killing (2018)
* All the Kurosawa & Mifune films
** The Hidden Fortress (1958)
** Sanjuro (1962)
** Throne of Blood (1957)
** Yojimbo (1961)
** Seven Samurai (1954)
** Rashomon (1950)
* Zatoichi
* Lone Wolf & Cub

===Links===
* [https://www.slashfilm.com/606221/jackie-chans-greatest-fight-scenes-ranked/ 16 Underrated Samurai Movies from SlashFilm.com]
* [https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/flower-of-carnage-the-birth-of-lady-snowblood/ Lady Snowblood]


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