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Poll: Favorite Chanbara (aka Samurai Cinema) Film

A poll by thenolanfan
According to Wikipedia: "Chanbara (チャンバラ), also commonly spelled "chambara", meaning "sword fighting" movies denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to western cowboy and swashbuckler films."

Which of these films is your favorite?

Rules: More than 25 000 votes

Discuss here

Results of 166 votes:

  1. 1.

    Shichinin no samurai (1954)

     
  2. 2.

    Ran (1985)

     
  3. 3.

    Seppuku (1962)

     
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