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	COURT - Online Information article about COURT
		The kings were, with very rare exceptions, chosen from one particular family in each state, the ancestry of which was traced back not only to the founder of the kingdom but also, in a remoter degree, to a god.
		Had the fighting material been drawn from the ceorlisc class a warrior would surely have been required from each hide, but for military service no such regulation is found.
		The arms required were probably a sword, helmet, coat of mail and one or two spears and shields.
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	When the Last Sword is Drawn (2003)
		By Hollywood standards The Last Samurai was a carefully crafted and entertaining film, but it unfortunately overshadowed another, superior Meiji-era film released the same year in Japan entitled When the Last Sword is Drawn.
		The Last Samurai simplistically portrays the samurai as a noble breed only interested in serving the Emperor and preserving their harmonious Bushido way of life.
		In contrast, WTLSID uses the pious and selfless life of one samurai to show Bushido as it was intended to be, yet was largely forgotten by the majority of men who either fought for no reason at all or simply to save themselves.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/whenthelastswordisdrawn.htm (1136 words)

	movie sword last samurai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Last well-made is. Samurai action movie and its strong message makes it a of Habit Review Movie The (2003), Samurai Last * 1/2 the Despite of some rough best The Last** Samurai is he with major studio.
		Samurai Samurai Katana Sword of the Dragon The Last.
		Last Samurai is a innocent that pretends to be of while.
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	DVD of the Week: (12/10/2004): When the Last Sword is Drawn (Mibu Gishi Den)
		Sword deals with the twilight years of Japan’s Shogunate in the mid-1800s, when sympathies were divided between the old feudal system and the possibilities of creating a new, more modern Japan.
		Sword is actually closest in spirit to Twilight Samurai, though, another movie about men who are faced with the grim prospect of becoming historical irrelevancies.
		The two men make their last stand in a battle that is sure to spell the end for their whole way of life.
	www.thegline.com /dvd-of-the-week/2004/12-10-2004.htm (1094 words)

	Asian Entertainment Forum! -> THE LAST SAMURAI vs TWILIGHT SAMURAI vs
		WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS DRAWN: This seems to have passed under most people's radars, but it's a really great film.
		WTLSID in particular benefits from a Joe Hisaishi soundtrack.
		THE LAST SAMURAI is all about ideas, and apart from Tom few characters are developed beyond the idea they represent.
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	When The Last Sword Is Drawn DVD Review at The Z Review UK DVD reviews
		When the Last Sword is Drawn is a story about one lone Samuarai warrior, Kanichiro Yoshimura who appears to be a hero and an anti hero.
		Told through the eyes of an old samurai warrior and his appreciative student, the film is related in flashback, and is in many ways about how other people judge ones that they love by the life they live and how they live it.
		This site has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film owners of When The Last Sword Is Drawn and intellectual copyright holders of the movies mentioned herein and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
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	Mibu gishi den - Review (When the Last Sword Is Drawn)
		The younger Ono, on the other hand, who as a boy lived in the same provincial town as Yoshimura, remembers him more sympathetically as "strong and gentle", a wise teacher and a skilled swordsman who deserted the local clan and sought work in Kyoto to prevent his beloved family from starving to death.
		More than the mere nostalgia piece that it at first seems, 'When the Last Sword is Drawn' dramatises the manner in which nostalgia and maudlin sentimentality distort our picture of the past.
		So 'When the Last Sword is Drawn' is a historical samurai epic reminiscent of the style of Akira Kurosawa - but its interrogation of the relationship between history and memory makes it more like 'Rashomon' than like 'The Seven Samurai'.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/1077 (484 words)

	When the last Sword is drawn - EatOutGoOut.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, when even the nearest future seems unpredictable, he is diligently striving to make money.
		Holding a sword in one hand and a dagger in the other, Kanichiro faces the guns.
		What little money Kanichiro had and the sword are placed in the alcove with a letter asking to pass them to his family.
	www.eatoutgoout.com /Display_Film_Full.asp?Film_ID=2396 (1478 words)

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		Sword and Sorcery Studios has issued an open call for short story submissions to fill the Scarred Lands Anthology.
		As Deadlands fans may recall, the D20 project was scrapped when Pinnacle was purchased by Cybergames last September, but when PEG regained its independence in January, the project was back on again.
		Berkeley and Barchetta were some of the last big independent distributors, in California at least, and Alliance, already the biggest distributor in hobby gaming, shows no signs of slowing down.
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	subway cinema \| new york asian film festival 2004 \| when the last sword is drawn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS DRAWN starts in 1899 when an elderly Saito brings his grandson to a doctor's office and discovers that his immortal enemy, Kanichiro, is a family friend of the doctor.
		While they wait, the doctor and the old samurai talk, putting together their pieces of Kanichiro's story to form a whole picture of the money-grubbing, penny-pinching rube with an over-developed sense of self-preservation who long ago joined the Shinsengumi for the money.
		WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS DRAWN, is the kind of sprawling, beautifully-made, big-budget epic that Japanese studios just don't make anymore.
	www.subwaycinema.com /frames/nyaff04-lastsword.htm (694 words)

	DVD Times - When The Last Sword Is Drawn 2-Disc SE in April
		Set at the end of the 19th century, at the time of the Shinsengumi, the guardians of the imperial capital, Yoshimura is their top swordsman.
		Yojiro Takita’s When The Last Sword Is Drawn offers a stylish, evocative drama highlighting a period lost in history and seeped in blood.
		It marks a continual revival of fascination in Samurai films such as The Last Samurai and Twilight Samurai.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=56531 (702 words)

	When The Last Sword Is Drawn - Kiichi Nakai, Koichi Sato, Yui Natsukawa
		WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS DRAWN is a film based on the bestseller novel by Naoki Prize winning writer Asada Jiro.
		At the close of the Edo period in Kyoto, Japan, WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS DRAWN centres around the main character, Kanichiro Yoshimura, an obscure member of the celebrated Shinsengumi, which is widely known as a group of patriotic samurai whose duty was to guard and defend Kyoto, the capital of Japan at that time.
		Kanichiro is the "gladiator" of the group, who is by far the best swordsman among its members, but is also attached to money so much that his fellow samurai call him a moneygrubber.
	www.phase9.tv /movies/whenthelastswordisdrawn.htm (302 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: When The Last Sword Is Drawn [2003] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The film is based on the memories of two people who were with him and it's very exciting to watch, especially the madness (and the sense of being doomed) of the samurai with their swords against the Emperor's forces with modern rifles.
		Lots of sword play and the main character although a softy at heart is not scared to get into the killing...
		This film is the last samurai how it should have been done (no Americans).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007NBJ14 (539 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Covers for twilight samurai and last sword? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The covers for the Twilight Samurai and When the Last Sword is are the same, why?
		I had the Korean version of Last Sword so at first I thought it was maybe a case of the film being retitled there, but they've got different casts and after seeing clips of Twilight Samurai it's obviously something else.
		The HK Panorama DVD of Twilight Samurai has that exact same cover image (of the samurai with his back turned) as that R3 Korean DVD of The Last Sword is Drawn.
	www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=69015 (187 words)

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	History Of The Top by Valerie Oliver, Copyright Spintastics Skill Toys, Inc., 2002
		The Iliad, by Homer, in XIV 413 in 800 B.C. (Ancient Greece) claims to be a story of the fall of Troy.
		A skilled top spinner can then pick up the top and balance it on a paddle, tightly stretched string, or even run the top across the edge of a sword.
		Variations of the spindle top are found in China and Korea with bodies made of bamboo.
	www.spintastics.com /HistoryofTop.asp (5058 words)

	DVD Times - When The Last Sword Is Drawn - Poster & Trailer
		DVD Times - When The Last Sword Is Drawn - Poster & Trailer
		Tartan Films are proud to announce the release of When The Last Sword Is Drawn on 17th December.
		Kanichiro Yoshimura is a family man and a samurai who can no longer feed his wife and children due to the low wages paid by his small town clan.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=55545 (353 words)

	Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		TAKITA Yojiro, "When the Last Sword is Drawn" (2003)
		Based on Asada Jiro's bestselling novel of the same title, this is the story of Yoshimura Kanichiro, a low samurai warrior of the Shinsengumi militia (towards the end of the feudal Shogunate era).
		In 1985, Comic Magazine was acclaimed at the New York Film Festival and TAKITA won recognition overseas.
	www.asianfilms.org /japan/lastsword.html (293 words)

	8TH JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The multi-award winning yet unconventional samurai drama WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS DRAWN opens the Festival.
		WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS DRAWN is set in the Meiji period, and tells the story of Yoshimura, a lowly samurai, who choses to leave his loved ones and the hardships of his poor clan, to seek his fortune in the big city, in a renowned samurai faction.
		The students, now won over, don’t expect their teacher to be posted elsewhere, nor do they know the facts behind the accident that took the silent big man’s voice.
	www.sapff.com.au /2004/whatson/jff04.html (3180 words)

	When The Last Sword Is Drawn (Subtitled) (Two Discs) DVD Review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When The Last Sword Is Drawn (Subtitled) (Two Discs) DVD Review - Time Out Film
		There are some lively combat sequences, but the combination of stoic suffering in the face of rigid values and misty-eyed nostalgia for hearth and home doesn’t really push the same buttons here as it evidently did for Japanese viewers, since this beat ‘Zatoichi’ for best film and actor at last year’s Japanese film awards.
		The annual Time Out Film Guide includes 15,000 films reviewed over the last 36 years by Time Out critics, covering every area of cinema: Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors, documentaries and avant garde, French, Far Eastern, classic silents and 1930s comedies.
	www.timeout.com /film/dvd/99393.html (298 words)

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	When The Last Sword Is Drawn - Films on DVD and Video - MovieMail UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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		A samurai can no longer support his family on his low wages for the small-town clan for whom he works, so he leaves for the city in search of higher wages.
		Told in retrospective by his grandson and a fellow samurai, this is a stylish, evocative look at the last days of a dying breed of men who hold honour above all else.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/14421 (278 words)

	When the Last Sword is Drawn Film Review - Time Out Film
		When the Last Sword is Drawn Film Review - Time Out Film
		The conflicting demands of loyalty, honour and feeding one’s family mark this Japanese civil war drama following a small-town samurai through the turmoil surrounding the end of the Shogunate and the restoration of the Emperor.
		When The Last Sword Is Drawn (Subtitled) (Wide Screen) (Two Discs)
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	Visit London - When The Last Sword Is Drawn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Visit London - When The Last Sword Is Drawn
		Family man Kanichiro Yoshimura cannot support his family on his meagre wage so he reluctantly packs his bags and leaves home, enrolling at the renowned Shinsen-gumi samurai faction in the city.
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	View topic - When The Last Sword Is Drawn @ Womens Forum
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		Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject: When The Last Sword Is Drawn
		Tartan Films are proud to announce the release of When The Last Sword Is Drawn on 17th Dec
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	Shattering Ten Misconceptions About Islam
		If you differ in anything among yourselves, refer it to Allah and His Messenger, if you do believe in Allah and the Last Day; That is best, and most suitable for final determination.
		Finally, another reason advanced for this prevalent misconception is that Islam `spread by the sword'.
		It should be clear by now that we must always distinguish between the Qur'an and Sunnah and the Muslims when it comes to determining what the Creator has asked of us.
	www.usc.edu /dept/MSA/notislam/misconceptions.html (6813 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - DVD Review - "When the Last Sword is Drawn" Intromedia - Region 3- NTSC
		DVDBeaver.com - DVD Review - "When the Last Sword is Drawn" Intromedia - Region 3- NTSC
		The failings of this SE package are the substantial extras which are subtitled only in Korean on the 2nd disc.
		Kind of ostentatious, but included in the packaging are a small sword (letter opener - now used by me now to crack open DVD plastic wrappings) and a small segment of 5 frames of the film (encased in a plastic sleeve) - I guess it a keepsake.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews7/whenlastswordisdrawn.htm (236 words)

	When The Last Sword Is Drawn - Trailer
		This wonderful gem of Japanese cinema is directed by Yojiro Takita and written by Asada Jiro.
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	When The Last Sword Is Drawn on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When The Last Sword Is Drawn on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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	When the Last Sword Is Drawn (Mibu gishi den) @ MovieTickets.com
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