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	Midnight Eye review: Zatoichi (2003, Takeshi KITANO)
		Today, as a genre, chambara is as deeply unfashionable as the Western movie is now in America.
		It was at her insistence that Kitano agreed to take on the project as a homage to the original Zatoichi actor, a former personal friend of hers.
		Rather than the elaborately orchestrated poetic sequences of the archetypal chambara piece (excepting a memorable scene of carnage played out on a beach in the pouring rain), the violence is generally sporadic, clean and sharp, with the blood-letting rendered as computer-generated spurts.
	www.midnighteye.com /reviews/zatoichi.shtml (1216 words)

	Chambara
		Chambara is the name given to Japanese action films dealing with the Feudal era of Japan.
		Chambara films have been popular since the beginning of the film industry in Japan.
		Another great Chambara series is "Sleepy Eyes of Death," the adventures of Nemuri Kyoshiro, son of the Black Mass.
	www.robertweinberg.net /chambara.htm (1074 words)

	Jidaigeki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jidaigeki films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight".
		The term "Jedi" (as in Jedi Knight) from the Star Wars saga was derived from Jidaigeki by George Lucas as he was heavily influenced by Akira Kurosawa.
		A Man, a Blade, an Empty Road: Postwar Samurai Film to 1970 by Allen White on Greencine, this article discusses specific chambara films, their distinction from regular jidai-geki, and the evolution of the genre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jidaigeki (1494 words)

	CHAMBARA - A SITE DEDICATED TO THE BEST OF MARTIAL ARTS MOVIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
		Chambara prospered in the 1960s and 1970s, with the lust for violence and sex growing increasingly fast, bloody and explicit films as Kobayashi's “Seppuku” (1962), led to the development of Ero-gro, a sadistic sub-genre of sexual horror films, epitomized by Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba (1964) and Teruo Ishii's “Joys of Torture” (1968).
		Such physical grace allows the Chambara actor to not only perform feats involving rolls, springs and flips, it also enables them to adapt to their surroundings, using walls, tables, chairs and other inanimate objects as improvisational props that can be used during the application of the acrobatic technique.
		Although the Chambara actor must be skilled with a number of weapons, it is not uncommon for them to choose a specific weapon that they will use during all aspects of their training.
	www.chambara.com (3374 words)

	ASIAN POP The Return of 'Zatoichi' / Sharpen your swords, because 'Kill Bill' was only the beginning of the samurai ...
		Chambara -- which peaked in the '60s and '70s -- generally replays the downward spiral of Japan's samurai past, when the warrior class gradually lost power to the rising merchant class under Tokugawa rule (circa 1598-1868).
		The latest installment also throws in a pair of vengeful geishas (one of whom is in drag), a feisty farm worker, her gambling-addicted sad-sack nephew and a mentally deficient neighbor who runs around screaming in a loincloth and carrying a spear in his daily preparation to become a samurai.
		Chambara seems to be on the rise, and, for the wandering samurai, it perhaps signals a call back into action.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2004/08/04/zatoichi.DTL&type=printable (1400 words)

	Violence, East and West: The Last Samurai
		In his last picture, after a score of chambara where sword-skill was the only hope for survival, Misumi opts for an ironic twist in The Last Samurai: characters must either perish or accept that, as Sugi proclaims, “it's no longer the age of the sword”.
		Shintaro Katsu's last appearance in chambara was as the hapless, drunken ronin “Bull” Goemon in the flaccid remake of Ronin-gai (Kazuo Kuroki, 1990).
		This is not a reference to the spate of martial arts or kung-fu films from a variety of Asian producers, films whose often contemporary setting and always clear-cut oppositions of good-and-evil never probed an era, a social structure, or an expressive tradition in the manner of the best samurai films.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/04/30/last_samurai.html (5599 words)

	Warrior Quest International - Chambara
		Chambara is the Japanese term for adapting the fighting arts to film.
		Chambara films emerged in the early 1940’s with the film “47 Ronin” and have flourished ever since.
		The action in a Chambara fight scene must appear to be realistic, but it is never real.
	www.warriorquest.com /chambara.html (555 words)

	Pyramid: Anything Goes Martial Arts
		Defensively, the focus tends to be on dodging incoming attacks, often with Chambara jumps.
		Great, soaring leaps — two to four or more times the artist's height — are a trademark of "Anything Goes"; the school is a Chambara style, and in fact specializes in fighting in mid-air.
		In addition to the normal Chambara dodges, practitioners of "Anything Goes" often leap to attack, trading blows with their opponents in mid-jump; demonstrations of incredible "hang time" is common during such battles.
	www.sjgames.com /pyramid/sample.html?id=4600 (1820 words)

	Hara Kiri Indies Manga/Comic by Made in DNA — chambara, hara kiri, samurai \| Gather
		The heroine is Hara Kiri, a young (one of the youngest) bounty hunter, whose job it is to track the criminal elements of New Edo.
		Plenty of samurai chambara (sword play), sexy-strong girls (can't forget those!) and high-tech elements.
		tags: chambara, hara kiri, samurai, ninja, manga, japanese culture, swordplay, geisha, japan, comics, swords
	www.gather.com /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976865527 (539 words)

	:::renaissance chambara:::
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		Be careful that success does not go to your head however.
		I think that we are in for intersting and exciting times, I haven't felt this excited about technology since Steve Jobs returned to Apple.
	renaissancechambara.blogspot.com (1983 words)

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