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"Kaizō Hayashi’s melancholic, metacinematic reverie sets a nerdish, noirish ‘tec investigating a silent-era mystery": TO SLEEP SO AS TO DREAM (1986) is available on Blu-ray from Arrow Video
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Hayley Winter · @Driftglass
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Zatoichi At Large (1972)
Kazuo Mori (director)

23rd in the series.
Pretty much a paint by numbers entry.
Not bad. Not great.

#chanbara #japanesecinema #criterioncollection #zatoichi

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Hayley Winter · @Driftglass
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Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (1971)
Kimiyoshi Yasuda (director)

The 22nd entry in the Zatoichi film series.
Have never seen this one.

#onearmedswordsman #wuxia #chanbara #criterioncollection #zatoichi

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Hayley Winter · @Driftglass
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)
Kenji Misumi (director)

Highly entertaining entry in the series!
Very very recommended.
Also- the Criterion set has this nifty Bill Sienkiewicz art!

#saturdaynightactionmovie #samurai #chanbara #criterioncollection #zatoichi

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Hayley Winter · @Driftglass
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Samaritan Zatoichi (1968)
Kenji Misumi (director)

A little something familiar, a little something different.
Solid outing but it didn't really stand out for me.

#japanesecinema #samurai #criterioncollection #chanbara #zatoichi

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Ron Campbell · @SoarFeat
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sailors lend me your hashtags. I am here to study practice read and and while watching and all things and and while I gobble up the occasional or and I’m a sucker for and well told and am not averse to and but what I really like to do is look at pictures of a nice

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Hayley Winter · @Driftglass
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)
Kimiyoshi Yasuda (director)

Lots of action and bloodshed but the story just isn't as interesting this time out. It's all spectacle.

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" チャンバラ", padded , are an option. They are too floppy, however, to simulate and sliding .
(剣道道具), another possible option, does not protect the whole body; especially some classic like the armpit (八つ口) are completely unprotected. The ( 竹刀) used with the kendô-dôgu lacks the weight and curvature of the real sword, and cannot properly depict some of the .

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Hayley Winter · @Driftglass
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Tonight's (first?) movie -

Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
Kenji Misumi (director)

As with most of the latter part of the series, it's a first time viewing.

#samuraimovies #chanbara #criterioncollection #zatoichi

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Hayley Winter · @Driftglass
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Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)
Satsuo Yamamoto (director)

The sixteenth film in the Zatoichi series.
I've never seen this one.

#japanesecinema #chanbara #criterioncollection #zatoichi

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