people: Hiroaki Samura
2021
'Blade Of The Immortal': Life Sentence, Death Sentence February 22, 2021
An all-new anime adaptation of Hiroaki Samura's classic long-running manga gets it right at last
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2018
'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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2017
'Blade Of The Immortal': But That's The Way I Like It, Baby, I Don't Want To Live Forever January 31, 2017
With the first of the three-in-one reissues of Hiroaki Samura's epic fantasy about a nigh-unkillable assassin, there's never been a better time to rediscover one of manga's high points
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Anime Roundup: January 21, 2017 January 20, 2017
Tezuka's 'Metropolis' comes to BD, but beware; Amazon's anime ambitions; 'your name.' shatters records; Hiroaki Samura's next story; and 'In This Corner Of The World' wins top movie honors
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2016
'Die Wergelder': A Taste Of Blood Money February 01, 2016
After his samurai body-horror epic 'Blade of the Immortal', Hiroaki Samura now gives us a Nikkatsu-style, pulp-inflected action fable
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2015
Let's Film This: 'Blade of the Immortal' August 15, 2015
In which we ponder a live-action adaptation (in Japan, that is) of Hiroaki Samura's long-running classic manga -- a project that could be both cheap and relatively feasible
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