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Fūma no Kojirō (風魔の小次郎, "Kojiro of the Fuma Clan") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. It was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from January 1982 to November 1983. It tells the story of sword legends and rivalry between ninja clans. The main character Kojiro is a young boy who is a member of the ...
Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū (鹿島神傳直心影流, かしましんでんじきしんかげりゅう), [1] often referred to simply as Jikishinkage-ryū or Kashima Shinden, is a traditional school ( koryū) of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship ( kenjutsu ). The school was founded in the mid-16th century, based upon older styles ...
Hōjō Maki may refer to: Hōjō Maki (北条 牧, 牧の方), also Hōjō no Maki, wife of Hōjō Tokimasa, the first Shikken of Japan, and mother of Hōjō Masako the wife of Shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo. Category: Human name disambiguation pages.
Makiwara. The makiwara ( 巻藁) is a padded striking post used as a training tool in various styles of traditional karate. It is thought to be uniquely Okinawan in origin. The makiwara is one form of hojo undō, a method of supplementary conditioning used by Okinawan martial artists .
In his book Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike, author Tom Mes writes that "Bodyguard Kiba constitutes a major improvement over not only A Human Murder Weapon but all the films Miike had made up until that point" and that "script-wise too the film was an improvement over its predecessor", concluding that "by taking the time to portray his ...
Shōjo. manga. Shōjo manga (少女漫画, lit. "girls' comics ", also romanized as shojo or shoujo) is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent females and young adult women. It is, along with shōnen manga (targeting adolescent boys), seinen manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and josei manga ...
Bodyguard Kiba: Apocalypse of Carnage (修羅の黙示録 ボディーガード牙, Shura no mokushiroku: Bodigaado Kiba), also known as Bodyguard Kiba 2: Combat Apocalypse or simply Bodyguard Kiba 2, is a 1994 Japanese direct-to-video martial arts/action film directed by Takashi Miike.
My Picture Diary. My Picture Diary (私の絵日記, Watashi no Enikki) is a 1982 manga series by Maki Fujiwara [ ja], [a] published by Chikuma Shobō. It is published in English by Drawn and Quarterly in 2023. Ryan Holmberg did the translation.