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ÛÛÛß [ THEATRE DATE....: 1965
ÛÛÛÛ [ RELEASE DATE....: 10/9/2005
ÛÛÛÛ [ STORE DATE......: 10/25/2005
ÛÛÛÛ° [ GENRE...........: Action/Samurai Drama
ÛÛÛÛ [ RATiNG..........: 6.8/10 (46 votes)
ßÛÛÛ [ NO. SCREENiNGS..: ???
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²ÛÛÛÛ [ RUNTiME.........: 100 Minutes
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ÛÛÛÛ² [ RESOLUTiON......: 640x272
ÛÛÛÛ² [ ARCHiVES........: sph-samurai.spy.rar *49x15*
²ÛÛÛÛ [ AVi SiZE........: 700 MB * 717,420 KB * 734,638,080 B
ÛÛÛÛ² [ SUBTiTLES.......: EN
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Mirroring changes in awareness, politics, and lifestyle occurring across the globe, the chanbara (or Japanese swordplay film) underwent a significant metamorphosis in the early 1960s, acquiring a decidedly more radical spirit. Seemingly without warning, groundbreaking cinematic styles from beyond the Land of the Rising Sun suddenly melded together into one in-period genre brew. The gritty social conscience of the Italian neorealists, the downbeat nightmares of American film noir, the rage and energy of Britain’s angry-young-man school of kitchen-sink realism, and the often fractured, elliptical narrative approach of the French new wave—all were present and accounted for in the stark, thrilling samurai films of the sixties. These disparate influences, in combination with a volatile atmosphere of unrest and dissent, inspired a spontaneous combustion of creativity among a host of Japanese directors, resulting in a new kind of chanbara, and a new kind of samurai hero.
Although stories of wandering lone-wolf swordsmen and rogue samurai defying their clans had graced movie screens since the very origins of Japanese silent cinema, it was the conventional swordsman hero—the virtuous, duty-bound man of honor loyal to the status quo—that dominated chanbara cinema until well after World War II. The militaristic nationalism that pervaded Japanese culture in the 1930s and throughout the war found expression in correspondingly jingoistic celluloid hymns to the spirit of Bushido, the samurai code. Samurai film after samurai film extolled unquestioning service to the emperor and the laying down of one’s life for the nation. Due largely to the U.S. occupation following Japan’s surrender, in 1945, this approach to the samurai film began to change. Originally deemed to be too reminiscent of wartime Japan’s ultranationalist underpinnings, in-period motion pictures—particularly sagas featuring sword-wielding heroes—were actively discouraged and often prohibited, depending on the whims of the U.S. occupation censors. When the occupation forces lifted the ban on cinematic swordplay, in the early 1950s, chomping-at-the-bit Japanese studios dove back headfirst into samurai film production.
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