Chambara/Yakuza
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
Chambara Films (an onomatopoeia describing the clash of swords) are a revisionist, non-traditional style of samurai film that achieved popularity in Japan. Its origins can be traced as far back as Akira Kurosawa, whose films feature moral grayness and exaggerated violence, but the genre is mostly associated with 1970s samurai manga by Kazuo Koike, on whose work many later films would be based. Chambara features few of the stoic, formal sensibilities of earlier jidaigeki films – the new chambara featured revenge-driven antihero protagonists, nudity, sex scenes, swordplay, and blood. Yakuza Films are post feudal period action films which focus on the lives and dealings of yakuza: Japanese organized crime syndicates. (Wikipedia)
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Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "Chambara/Yakuza"
The following 125 pages are in this category, out of 125 total.
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- Battles Without Honor and Humanity
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Collection
- Black Dagger
- Black Lizard
- Blind Swordsman and the Chess Expert
- Blind Swordsman and the Fugitives
- Blind Swordsman Samaritan
- Blind Swordsman's Cane Sword
- Blind Swordsman's Fire Festival
- Blind Swordsman's Revenge
- Blind Swordsman's Vengeance
- Blind Woman's Curse
- Bohachi Bushido - The Villain
- The Boss's Head
- The Bounty Hunter Trilogy (BluRay)
- Branded To Kill
- The Bushido Blade
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- Lady Snowblood
- Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance
- Last Days of the Boss
- Legend of The Eight Samurai
- The Life and Opinion of Masseur Ichi
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Babycart at The River Styx
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Babycart in Peril
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Babycart In The Land of Demons
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Babycart To Hades
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
- Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell