Meitō Bijomaru (1945) Womanly Revenge
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Channel: Bloomsbury Publishing · 2018 · Film & Animation
The 1945 dud Meitō Bijomaru is easy to mock. But there are a number of interesting features to it nonetheless, foremost among them the fact that it gives the female protagonist exciting, swashbuckling action sequences to perform. For more information, please see our companion website for Sean O'Reilly's Re-Viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan (2018)!
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