Historical/Action/Martial Arts Titles

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Historical: (Setting) Self-explanatory. This should be a title rooted in historical events.

Action: (Genre) Lots of shooting, explosions, and the like. Contains subcategories of more specific types such as "Gun-Action", "Martial Arts", and "Swordplay"; see also: "Fighting".

Martial Arts: (Story/Location) A pretty self-explanatory subcategory of "Action".

Title Rating Synopsis
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Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
Watch The End of the Edo Era was also the end of the Age of the Samurai. The arrival of the Westerners with their new ways and weapons was generating turmoil and chaos throughout Japan. The members of the Kakunojou Yuuyama Theater Troupe have spent ten years seeking to revenge the death of their Master. At the same time, a ronin named Youriro Akidzuki is searching for the Hasha no Kubi, (or the Head of Conqueror.) – a dangerous mystical treasure that is rumored to assure victory in combat. Their paths cross in the year 1853 in the city of Yokohama, at a time when shadow armies are locked in a struggle for power, control and the future of the country.

Basilisk - Kouga Ninpou Chou
Buy The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has finally been dissolved. Ten ninja from each clan must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun. The surviving clan will rule for the next thousand years.
Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls Buy See Basilisk - Kouga Ninpou Chou
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Irohanihoheto Watch See Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
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Legend of the Condor Hero
Yang Gor is a orphan. Picked up by his uncle Gon Kauskei he is brought to the Temple of the Mountain his father trained at. What he doesn't know is the monks believe his father a traitor and his son no better. They abuse and torture him and refuse to teach him how to use his Chi. Running away, he finds an old man suffering from amnesia who teaches him a forbidden technique that could kill with one blow. Accidentally using it on his teacher (who was beating him) Yang Gor runs away to the mountain to the temple of the Dragon Queen, who is no friend of the monks.
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Samurai Champloo
Rent

Fuu-chan is working as a waitress in a tea shop in the era of the samurai in Japan. She meets Mugen, a strange samurai warrior who looks like he's break dancing when he fights. For 100 dumplings, he agrees to help her when some local thugs, who work for the magistrate's sone, try to cut off her finger.

Shogun`un Son Günleri Watch See Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
幕末機関説 いろはにほへと Watch See Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
Genre
Comedy(1) Drama(4)
Setting
Fantasy(1)
Demographic
Seinen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(1)
Keywords
Adventure(1) Fan Service(1) Fighting(2) Gun-action(1)
Ninja(2) Samurai(3) Swordplay(3) Violent(2)
Type
TV(4)
Release Year
2006(1) 2005(2) 2004(1) 2002(1) 2001(1)

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