Samurai

‘Snow on the Blades’ is director Setsurô Wakamatsu’s romantic rumination on one samurai’s futile devotion to the code that society left behind.

“Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 1” Written by Kazuo Koike Drawn by Goseki Kojima Cover by Frank Miller Published by Dark Horse Manga The Dark Horse Comics imprint Dark Horse Manga may not be one of the giants of North American manga distribution but they make up for their smaller library with consistently and …

Heroes of the East Directed by Lau Kar-leung Written by Kuang Ni Hong Kong, 1978 Marriage. There is really nothing like it. The love which binds two people together so strongly can emanate from any number of things, such as common interests, even in the smallest of things. It is interesting how some marriages and …

A Boy and His Samurai Written and directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura Japan, 2010 Yoshihiro Nakamura’s fish-out-of-water comedy, based on a manga, concerns an Edo period samurai thrust forward in time to contemporary Tokyo and befriended by a single mother and her young son. Instead of a narrative rooted in the action film genre like one may …

Cult Cinema: Volume 2 In terms of cult cinema, anime, which encompasses a wide variety of genres within the blanket term of Japanese animation, can be difficult to categorize. Thankfully, its fans are not, because they all adopt the same high-pitched tone of indignation whenever you point out that jerking off to 14-year olds covered …