Movies: Asahi Kurizuka
- 1966
The Blazing Sword (1966)
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Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi. Hijikata Toshizo is a samurai eager to test his skills and sword and make his first kill. The dojo he belongs to practices the T...
- 2014
Uzumasa Limelight (2014)
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Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledglin...
- 2013
Bushido (2013)
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1732, in the era of Yoshimune Tokugawa. West Japan suffers from a severe famine. Three years after wards, it appeared as though calm had been restored to the domain, but there is word that Jyuzo Matsumiya, the sword fighting instructor sent by the sh...
- 2016
The Old Capital (2016)
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Chieko Sanda has operated a dry goods store in Kyoto for the past 20 years. Her family has owned the store for generations. Chieko is conflicted on whether her daughter Mai will take over her position with the changing of times. Mai is a college stud...
- 2019
Love's Twisting Path (2019)
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Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and city patrol. Tajuro Kiyokawa, once the master of the sword but now...
- 1969
Watch Out, Crimson Bat! (1969)
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A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overt...
- 1991
Crossroads in Tokyo (1991)
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A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals....
- 2015
Chambara: The Art of Japanese Swordplay (2015)
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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 or...
- 1968
Harbor Light Yokohama (1968)
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A hit-man returns to Japan after a long sojourne....
- 2005
Turn Over: An Angel Is Coming on a Bicycle (2005)
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- 1975
Visitor After Dark (1975)
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Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case....