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  On Suio-ryu

  On Suio-ryu

  Shot in 2016, this new interview with Sensei Yoshimitsu Katsuse, fifteenth headmaster of the Suio-ryu martial arts system, documents and demonstrates the reality of samurai swordsmanship in contrast to its fictitious representation of the Lone Wolf and Cub film series.

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  30:41

  Sword of the Samurai

  Sword of the Samurai

  This silent 1939 documentary details the making of a traditional samurai sword.

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  1:25:24

  Shogun Assassin

  Shogun Assassin

  Directed by Kenji Misumi and Robert Houston • 1980 • Japan, United States
  Starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Oki

  The legendary midnight-movie sensation that firmly embedded samurai mythology within American pop-culture consciousness, this English-dubbed reedit of the first two fil...