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Kuroneko (Yabu no Naka no Kuroneko, 'A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove') is a 1968 Japanese horror film directed by Kaneto Shindo and produced by Toho and Shindo Productions. Set during Japan's Sengoku period, the film follows two women who are murdered by samurai and return as vengeful supernatural cat...
Sengoku Basara 4 Sumeragi is an expanded version of the 2014 action game Sengoku Basara 4, released by Capcom in 2015 for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. As part of Capcom's hack-and-slash series set during Japan's Sengoku period, the game features numerous historical warlords reimagined with exagg...
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Expanded version of a respected Basara entry, praised by fans for content and polish, still niche and formula bound.
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A 2010 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama, based on a Shugoro Yamamoto novel, about a respected clan samurai who deliberately slays his lord's concubine and faces the slow reckoning that follows.
Why this score
Modern jidai-geki has strong performances and sober craft, with good ratings, though not widely canonized.
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In the 11th year of the Meiji Era, the end of the samurai shogunate and the prohibition of swords has left Japan with lasting scars. Displeased by these recent changes, many former samurai plot against the new government, inciting a wave of bloodshed. To counter this movement, the government constru...
The Hakuouki OVA consists of two original video animation episodes based on the historical fiction samurai series. Originally distributed as bonus content for the complete DVD set, these OVAs expand upon the narrative and characters within the broader Hakuouki universe. Fans interested in the detail...
Daimajin is a 1966 Japanese period fantasy film produced by Daiei Film and directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda. It combines a feudal samurai setting with kaiju-style destruction: a stone guardian figure, worshiped as a local deity, awakens when villagers are threatened by a tyrannical lord. The film is dis...
Zatoichi in Desperation is a 1972 Japanese chambara film directed by and starring Shintaro Katsu. It is the twenty-fourth film in the original Zatoichi series, in which Katsu plays a blind masseur and swordsman who becomes involved in conflicts between vulnerable people and criminals. The film is no...
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