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Series
Zatōichi volume 1
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The first of a series of films set in medieval Japan about Ichi, a blind masseur who lives by the Yakuza code and uses his deadly cane sword against his enemies.
3) 13 assassins
Author
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era. 13 Assassins - a "masterful exercise in cinematic butchery" (New York Post) - is centered around a group of elite samurai who are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord to prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war torn future.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Publisher
Geneon Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (650 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Mugen's a buck wild warrior: violent, thoughtless and womanizing. Jin is a vagrant ronin: mysterious, traditional, well-mannered and very strong. These two fiercely independent warriors couldn't be more different from one another, yet their paths cross when Fuu, a ditzy waitress, saves them from being executed when they are arrested after a violent swordfight. Fuu convinces the two vagrant young men to help her find a mysterious samurai 'who smells...
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
7) Yojimbo
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness.
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 132 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo and Samon as he leaves their clan's fiefdom on the northwest coast of Japan...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles Japanese samurai, including their everyday life, training, fighting methods, and societal role, as well as their decline and role in popular culture.
10) 47 Ronin
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kai is an outcast who joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. They embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the lives of samurai warriors in ancient Japan. The readers' choices reveal the historical details of life as a samurai during the Gempai wars of the 1100s, the rise of Nobunga in 1560, and as a wandering ronin in the 1600s"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxx, 449 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A captivating and comprehensive guide to Japan's elite class of warriors. The Samurai played a leading role in Japanese society for centuries, and this is the first encyclopedia to showcase the fascinating history and culture of these enigmatic warriors.
14) Samurai marathon
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In the late feudal era of Japan, a young ninja is operating undercover in the court of an aging lord during a peaceful era of Japan that is on the brink of change. After the lord challenges his lazy samurais to a punishing marathon to toughen them up, the ninja finds his loyalties put to the test. Facing impossible odds, this unusual band of characters is running a race to win or die.
Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Set during the Edo period, a samurai and his two servants, including spear-carrier Genpachi, meet various people on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, and a young child and a woman who are to be sold into prostitution.
16) Taboo =: Gohatto
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A handsome new recruit, Kano, causes sexual tension in a traditional samurai militia group called Shinsengumi in Kyoto, at the end of the Shōgunate era in Japan.
17) Samurai
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Samurai. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A mysterious samurai arrives at the doorstep of his feudal lord, requesting an honorable death by ritual suicide in his courtyard. The lord threatens him with the brutal tale of Motome, a desperate young ronin who made a similar request with ulterior motives, only to meet a grisly end. Undaunted, the samurai begins to tell a story of his how, with an ending no one could see coming.
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet.
Language
日本語
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2014-
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tao is a student at master Snow's martial arts school. With his friends Rayi and Lee and his not-girlfriend Kat, he tries to follow the teachings of martial arts masters--or, more often, finds a way around the masters' advice"--
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