Film
Chambara: The Art of Japanese Swordplay
2015 · 1h 24m · Documentary
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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.
Cast
Sadao Nakajima
Hiroki Matsukata
Chihiro Yamamoto
Seizō Fukumoto
Shôgo Kimura
Asahi Kurizuka
Ryûzô Ueno
Sadao Yamane
Katsuyuki Tai
Michihiro Kinoshita
Taichi Kasuga
Himself
Ayami Nakamura
Crew
- Sadao NakajimaDirector
- Tadashi NakamuraProducer
- Yukawa TatsuyaDirector of Photography
- Takeo YonedaEditor
Details
- Release date
- October 18, 2015
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Documentary
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