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		<title>Onibaba DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Onibaba is a 1964 horror movie based on a Buddhist parable. Directed by Kaneto ShindÅ, the film is set in rural Japan in the fourteenth century Nanboku-chÅ period and features Nobuko Otowa and Jitsuko Yoshimura as a woman and her daughter-in-law who attack and kill passing samurai, strip them of their valuable armor and possessions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zatoichi vs Yojimbo DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Zatoichi vs Yojimbo Zatoichi returns to his peaceful village, only to find that it has been taken over by Masagoro. When Masagoro hears Zatoichi is back, he sends Yojimbo to kill him. In their initial encounter, they both feel a grudging respect for the other&#8230; The gentle breeze, the murmur of a babbling brook, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samurai Rebellion DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samurai Rebellion is a 1967 jidaigeki (period drama) directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Its original Japanese title is JÅi-uchi: HairyÅ tsuma shimatsu, which translates as Rebellion: Receive the Wife. The movie is set in the Edo period of Japan. Toshiro Mifune plays Isaburo Sasahara, a vassal of the daimyo of the Aisu clan. Sasahara is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samurai Trilogy DVD</title>
		<link>http://cultjapan.com/movies/archives/317</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Samurai Trilogy is a film trilogy directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring ToshirÅ Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto and Koji Tsuruta as KojirÅ Sasaki. The films are based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the famous duellist and author of The Book of Five Rings. Together, they are a trilogy of epic proportions following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honoris a 1970 film telling the true story of the end of the Shogunate. The tragedy of the Shinsengumi is one of the best loved stories of Japanese history and has been adapted many times on stage, screen, television, and anime. This film, starring ToshirÃ´ Mifune and an all-star cast, stands out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dora-Heita DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Koheita (Koji Yakusho) is a samurai with such a reputation for debauchery that his nickname is &#8220;Dora-Heita&#8221; (Alley Cat), so his appointment as magistrate of the most corrupt township in all of Japan raises a few eyebrows on both sides of the law&#8230; But little does everyone know that it&#8217;s all a carefully constructed front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait of Hell DVD</title>
		<link>http://cultjapan.com/movies/archives/276</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portrait of Hell is a 1969 jidaigeki (period drama) film directed by Shiro Toyoda and starring Tatsuya Nakadai and Kinnosuke Nakamura. The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical daimyo Hosokawa (Nakamura). Hosokawa demands that Yoshihide decorate the walls of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Samurai Movies</title>
		<link>http://cultjapan.com/movies/archives/255</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The samurai were the noble military class of ancient Japan. The samurai are believed to have existed from 10th century up until the Meiji reforms of the 19th century. Although capable of brutal violence the samurai were also subject to a strict code of honour (Bushido), to the point of choosing ritual suicide by disembowelment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hidden Fortress DVD</title>
		<link>http://cultjapan.com/movies/archives/251</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hidden Fortress is a 1958 movie directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring ToshirÅ Mifune as General Rokurota Makabe and Misa Uehara as Princess Yuki. A literal translation of the Japanese title is The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress. The film begins with two luckless peasants, Tahei and Matashichi (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ran DVD</title>
		<link>http://cultjapan.com/movies/archives/245</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ran is a 1985 movie written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. It is a jidaigeki (Japanese period drama) depicting the fall of Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai), an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons. The story is based on legends of the daimyo MÅri Motonari, [...]]]></description>
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