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| | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center |
 | | AFI Silver presents a sample of the ultimate action genre with direction by masters of the cinema, starring some of the world's greatest actors--Samurai! |
 | | Like all notable categories, what we call the Samurai film (in Japanese, jidai-geki, "period film," or its subgenre chambara, "chop-'em-up") encompasses a wide range of subject matter and tone, while retaining it's own unique flavor--the most kinetic and balletic array of action sequences. |
 | | A young samurai commits needless hara-kiri, and the wanderer requesting an honorable death turns out to be his avenging father-in-law, "played with something like demonic self-possession by Tatsuya Nakadai."--Critic Vernon Young. |
| www.afi.com /silver/new/nowplaying/2005/v2i5/samurai.aspx (1041 words) |
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