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'The Legend Of Kamui': A Nearly Lost Ninja Scroll December 17, 2018
With only two volumes in English, and those out of print, Sanpei Shirato's ragged and earthy ninja epic needs as much of a reissue in full as can be had
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'Bakumatsu Taiyōden'/'Sun In The Last Days Of The Shogunate': Grifter's Paradise June 23, 2018
All but unseen by Western audiences, this breezy, bracing 1957 comedy cross-sections Japanese society at a turning point, for both fast laughs and wise insights
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'An Actor's Revenge': Improvised, And Served Cold March 31, 2018
It's normally bad to call a movie 'stagy', but Kon Ichikawa's kabuki tragedy revels in it to great effect
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'Blade Of The Immortal': Die Another Day March 01, 2018
A great manga-to-screen adaptation, a good-to-great Takashi Miike picture, and a slightly overlong and ragged samurai flick, in roughly that order
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