Review, buy Martial Arts: Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lone Wolf and Cub: TV Series, Vol. 2 [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sun Dragon [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Abbot White [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Jeet Kune Do [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hero's 2005 Volume 2: Tournament Start, The Sonny Chiba Collection: Shogun's Ninja [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tae Kwon Do Defense for Kids [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Death Trance [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Vol. 63: Hughes vs. Penn [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Heaven and Hell: Shaw Brothers Special Edition [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Vol. 76: Knockout [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), White Tiger [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Drunken Tai Chi/Dynamo (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fist of the North Star, Vol. 1 [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Killer Meteors [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Jet Li's Fearless [HD DVD] [2006] [US Import], Pride Fighting Championships: Final Conflict 2005 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Guardian Angel [1994], Everyone Is Kung-Fu Fighting [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Review Adness / Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Adness)

Actors & Directors

Reiko Ohara
Hiroki Matsukata
Sonny Chiba
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Teruhiko Saigo
Kinji Fukasaku

Release date: 2004-08-17
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Tatsuo Nogami
Price: £10.95

Review Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Adness:

With Shogun Samurai, veteran Japanese director Fukasaku Kinji demonstrated that he could do more than the gritty social realist cop-and-gangster films for which he remains most famous. A deliberately stately historical drama, with a slightly ponderous narrator introducing some of its most powerful scenes, Shogun Samurai shows the succession crisis that followed the death of the second Tokugawa Shogun in the early 17th-century. The Imperial court fans the flames in an attempt to restore the Emperor's power; a young dancer tries to preserve the young prince she loves; a warrior clan take steps to return to their homeland; and the fencing master Yagyu will expend honour and lives, including those of his own children, to ensure that his school is patronised by the new Shogun. The film alternates powerful scenes of intrigue and stagy monomaniac rants by Yagyu with finely choreographed scenes of battle and duel; it has a powerful and tragic sense of the fragile sadness of things and the futility of all ambitions; Sonny Chiba is unusually impressive as Yagyu's most honourable son, the one-eyed Jubel. On the DVD: Shogun Samurai on disc has minimal additional features: a short prose profile of Fukasaku Kinji and some promotional clips. Picture is anamorphic 16:9. -Roz Kaveney.

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