Overview

Veteran director Nakajima Sadao examines the appeal, background, context and transition of chambara, or period sword-fighting and samurai films, in Kyoto. Not only interviews with actors, choreographers and critiques are included, but the director orchestrates an original chambara scene for the documentary.

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Cast

Sadao Nakajima

Hiroki Matsukata

Chihiro Yamamoto

Seizō Fukumoto

Shôgo Kimura

Asahi Kurizuka

Ryûzô Ueno

Sadao Yamane

Katsuyuki Tai

Michihiro Kinoshita