Resurgence of Interest in Samurai Films.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20051027/en_usatoday/everybodyssamuraifighting

Everybody's samurai fighting


Samurai films are on a hot streak at the movies, on TV and on DVD.

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Interest in Japanese pop culture and easy access to the films on DVD is driving the resurgence.


"It seems they're just now, at the dawn of the 21st century, finally receiving the mainstream appreciation in the U.S. that is their due," says Patrick Galloway, author of Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook.

"The popularity has always been there, and when (samurai films) have properly been revived, they have always done well," says Michael Jeck, an expert on Japanese films

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Swordplay is only part of the attraction of samurai films. "What you have in a samurai battle is close-in, bladed warfare, the good guy going against the bad guy face to face," Jeck says. "You have kinetic energy, balletic grace and brutal force, all conjoined."
 
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I see more of them on HBO etc. these days, it seems...I'm trying to tape Zatoichi now!
 

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