Japanese Sword Fencing

1897
5.4| 0h1m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 20 October 1897 Released
Producted By: Lumière
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Official Website: https://catalogue-lumiere.com/escrime-au-sabre-japonais/
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The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

Genre

Documentary

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Director

Constant Girel

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Lumière

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Evengyny Thanks for the memories!
ShangLuda Admirable film.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
boblipton Here we have the earliest samurai flick on record -- although whether it was filmed by a cameraman in Japan or taken of a traveling troupe of Japanese performers in Paris I have no idea. Europe had been fascinated by Japan and Japanese culture for some time, ever since Perry had opened the country to westerners in 1854; and Gilbert & Sullivan had produced THE MIKADO a dozen years before this.Although this seems a rough and chaotic mêlée, it is the very chaotic nature of the action that maintains its interest; the viewer's eye is drawn from one flashing weapon to the other and never has the chance to grow bored. Compare this with the mannered, almost sedate way such combats are choreographed in the works of, say, Kurosawa.