Category:Chanbara
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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
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