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Warring Clans, Flashing Blades was Patrick Galloway’s second book on samurai films. The first, Stray Dogs and Lone Wolves was a great introduction to the genre. This one is more about the films.
It starts with a short introduction to the samurai era, and a few of the main actors before going into dozens of the films broken down by the time periods they cover. Each film is given a synopsis and then some comments. The focus is upon some of the Japanese classics that are not well known in the west like Samurai Saga featuring Toshiro Mifune as Cyrano de Bergerac, the famous ninja series Shinobi no mono, and some of the Zatoichi flicks. If you’re looking for Akira Kurosawa movies only one, Ran, is included. They are featured in his first book.
Warring Clans is a good read and has plenty of suggestions for movie viewing. I have three criticisms. First, he spends way too much time summing up the entirety of the movies. My personal preference is for a short overview of what the movie is about. I’m much more interested in some criticism and analysis rather than reading about the entire plot. Second, he praises some movies that I consider some real stinkers like those from the 1980s when the Japanese movie industry had fallen into a funk and all of them looked like anime or a kids TV show. Last, the majority of the films reviewed are not available in the West. That’s very frustrating because you can read about them in this book, and never be able to see them. Despite this is a very good overview of samurai movies.
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