Kagurabachi, which started serializing in Weekly Shonen Jump in the latter half of 2023, has gained quite the popularity among fans due to its action packed storyline and the revenge filled theme at its center.
In an interview put out on Manga Plus, the manga’s editor Takuro Imamura revealed the inspirations that led author Takeru Hokazono to craft such a story.
Talking about the revenge aspect, Imamura said that Hokazono always aspired to “make a revenge story” and get serialized in Jump. The one shots that he had drawn before also had similar themes.
Simply put, the revenge genre was Hokazono’s favorite, thanks to his love for Western movies, especially those directed by Quentin Tarantino.
These movies, along with the recent John Wick instalments served as an inspiration for the author to craft the unique setting in Kagurabachi manga.
“I think it’s simply his favorite genre. Hokazono likes Western movies,...
In an interview put out on Manga Plus, the manga’s editor Takuro Imamura revealed the inspirations that led author Takeru Hokazono to craft such a story.
Talking about the revenge aspect, Imamura said that Hokazono always aspired to “make a revenge story” and get serialized in Jump. The one shots that he had drawn before also had similar themes.
Simply put, the revenge genre was Hokazono’s favorite, thanks to his love for Western movies, especially those directed by Quentin Tarantino.
These movies, along with the recent John Wick instalments served as an inspiration for the author to craft the unique setting in Kagurabachi manga.
“I think it’s simply his favorite genre. Hokazono likes Western movies,...
- 5/6/2024
- by A.R. Madillo
- AnimeHunch
The Kagurabachi manga has been gaining quite some momentum in the manga world, especially among its international fans. As opposed to the manga’s author Takeru Hokazono-sensei and its editor Takuro Imamura’s imagination, young Chihiro’s storyline is getting widely loved by fans worldwide, which has sparked one much-asked question: Will the story get adapted into an anime?
Takeru Hokazono-sensei’s Kagurabachi
Recently, Kagurabachi‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump editor got into an exclusive interview with Manga Plus to discuss some background details and all the plans they have for the superhit manga’s future. During this, Imamura let slip one massively interesting detail for all the fans of the manga: There’s much more to come for Chihiro’s storyline!
SUGGESTEDAs Kagurabachi Dominates the World of Shonen Manga, Another Series May be Rising Through the Ranks with Anime Kagurabachi Editor Reveals Whether the Manga Will Get Adapted into an...
Takeru Hokazono-sensei’s Kagurabachi
Recently, Kagurabachi‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump editor got into an exclusive interview with Manga Plus to discuss some background details and all the plans they have for the superhit manga’s future. During this, Imamura let slip one massively interesting detail for all the fans of the manga: There’s much more to come for Chihiro’s storyline!
SUGGESTEDAs Kagurabachi Dominates the World of Shonen Manga, Another Series May be Rising Through the Ranks with Anime Kagurabachi Editor Reveals Whether the Manga Will Get Adapted into an...
- 2/24/2024
- by Mahin Sultan
- FandomWire
Despite only having published 20 chapters, Kagurabachi has already established itself as one of the most significant new releases in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. In September 2023, it debuted in the renowned Shonen Jump, and yet despite its brief period of existence, it has managed to gain fame around the world.
Kagurabachi
The manga tells the tale of Chihiro Rokuhira, a famous blacksmith’s son who built six charmed swords. With the aid of a seventh enchanted sword that his father forged before he was murdered, Chihiro seeks extremely violent revenge against a group of sorcerers. The story has appealed to a lot of anime and manga fans and has helped the series create a significant fan base.
Takeru Hokazono, the manga’s creator, drew inspiration for the plot from a variety of entertainment-related sources. In an interview, the manga’s editor Takuro Imamura revealed Hokazono’s inspirations for Chihiro Rokuhira and the manga Kagurabachi.
Kagurabachi
The manga tells the tale of Chihiro Rokuhira, a famous blacksmith’s son who built six charmed swords. With the aid of a seventh enchanted sword that his father forged before he was murdered, Chihiro seeks extremely violent revenge against a group of sorcerers. The story has appealed to a lot of anime and manga fans and has helped the series create a significant fan base.
Takeru Hokazono, the manga’s creator, drew inspiration for the plot from a variety of entertainment-related sources. In an interview, the manga’s editor Takuro Imamura revealed Hokazono’s inspirations for Chihiro Rokuhira and the manga Kagurabachi.
- 2/22/2024
- by Tarun Kohli
- FandomWire
There was a time when Japanese filmmaker Kijū Yoshida was a cinephile’s mark of exquisite taste. While not entirely obscure, his work has been less-discussed than those of contemporaries Ōshima, Imamura, and Suzuki, even if he’s always been grouped among them as a key author of the Japanese New Wave.
In the early years of online cinephilia, mentioning Yoshida was a sort of a code, a way to signal that your knowledge about Japanese cinema from that era was a bit more nuanced. It is, in many ways, thanks to this interest that these films are more widely talked-about and now the subject of Film at Lincoln Center’s retrospective running from December 1-8.
My introduction to Yoshida’s cinema came courtesy Allan Fish, a self-taught critic who watched films (and TV) from all over the world and wrote vivaciously about the moving image on his blog Wonders in the Dark.
In the early years of online cinephilia, mentioning Yoshida was a sort of a code, a way to signal that your knowledge about Japanese cinema from that era was a bit more nuanced. It is, in many ways, thanks to this interest that these films are more widely talked-about and now the subject of Film at Lincoln Center’s retrospective running from December 1-8.
My introduction to Yoshida’s cinema came courtesy Allan Fish, a self-taught critic who watched films (and TV) from all over the world and wrote vivaciously about the moving image on his blog Wonders in the Dark.
- 11/30/2023
- by Jaime Grijalba
- The Film Stage
Blind Beast.You could start cradled like the kidnapped woman in the undulating foam curves that resemble a gigantic female torso in Blind Beast (1969). You could make your approach via the swing of a Super-8 camera towards the steps of a courthouse at the beginning of A Wife Confesses (1961). You could drift into A Cheerful Girl (1957) through the kitchen window, onto a table laden with groceries and bottles of fluorescent orange soda-pop. You could inject yourself like morphine into Red Angel (1966), seep like body ink into the skin of Spider Tattoo (1966), or slide into the fevered bloodstream of All Mixed Up (1964) like powdered poison swallowed from a kite-paper pouch. Whether you arrive on the tip of a blade or the cusp of a kiss, there is no wrong place to start with Yasuzo Masumura, the postwar Japanese director whose astonishing accomplishment should by rights have him mentioned in the same...
- 8/15/2023
- MUBI
Brimming with magical realism, sensuality, and humor, the final film by revered filmmaker Imamura Shôhei tells the story of Sasano Yosuke (Yakusho Kôji), an unemployed salaryman who arrives in a remote fishing village following a rumor of hidden treasure. Instead, he meets Aizawa Saeko (Shimizu Misa), a charming and unusual woman with a unique problem: a well of warm water inside her longing for release. Saeko faces both shame and adoration for her condition, which the local anglers believe feeds the river and its fish. Intrigued and enamored, Yosuke decides to take up a new life as a fisherman. Through their passionate affair, Imamura paints a picture of longing, fantasy, and the search for true happiness in the most unexpected of places that’s both “nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable”.
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital.
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital.
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- 5/28/2023
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film at Lincoln Center
“The World of Apichatpong Weerasethakul” brings films directed and curated by the Thai master (who we talked to about the retrospective), among them work from Chantal Akerman, Imamura, and perhaps greatest of all, an ultra-rare 35mm screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster.
Museum of Modern Art
A Rialto Pictures retrospective offers a smorgasbord of classic films, including The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and 35mm prints of Ran and Rififi on 35mm.
Japan Society
One of Japan’s greatest directors, Shinji Somai, is subject of a retrospective that continues with Sailor Suit and Machine Gun playing alongside Luminous Woman this Friday. Read our piece on Somai here.
Bam
A series on actor-director jobs includes Fox and His Friends, Love Streams, King Lear, and The Bridges of Madison County on 35mm.
Anthology Film Archives
Alexandr Dovzhenko films screen in Essential Cinema.
Film at Lincoln Center
“The World of Apichatpong Weerasethakul” brings films directed and curated by the Thai master (who we talked to about the retrospective), among them work from Chantal Akerman, Imamura, and perhaps greatest of all, an ultra-rare 35mm screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster.
Museum of Modern Art
A Rialto Pictures retrospective offers a smorgasbord of classic films, including The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and 35mm prints of Ran and Rififi on 35mm.
Japan Society
One of Japan’s greatest directors, Shinji Somai, is subject of a retrospective that continues with Sailor Suit and Machine Gun playing alongside Luminous Woman this Friday. Read our piece on Somai here.
Bam
A series on actor-director jobs includes Fox and His Friends, Love Streams, King Lear, and The Bridges of Madison County on 35mm.
Anthology Film Archives
Alexandr Dovzhenko films screen in Essential Cinema.
- 5/5/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Shichiro Fukazawa's story “Narayama” is a haunting tale of ubasute, an ancient practice in Japanese folklore of carrying an elderly family member to a remote area, where they are left to die. Fukazawa's short story has notably been adapted twice. The most popular and successful version is Shohei Imamura's “The Ballad of Narayama,” released in 1983, which was both a critical and financial success and is regarded as a classic. Yet, the first adaptation of the powerful tragedy that came long before is a film that is very different in style from Imamura's depiction but equally wonderful. That magnificent picture is Keisuke Kinoshita's “The Ballad of Narayama.”
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By the late 1950s, Keisuke Kinoshita had made quite a name for himself, especially after having graced moviegoers with his powerful film, “Twenty-Four Eyes.” Around the same time,...
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By the late 1950s, Keisuke Kinoshita had made quite a name for himself, especially after having graced moviegoers with his powerful film, “Twenty-Four Eyes.” Around the same time,...
- 4/30/2023
- by Sean Barry
- AsianMoviePulse
If there was ever a region that included themes, characters and motifs that occasionally surpassed even the borders of the surreal, that would be Asia, with the titles that can be easily described as absurd coming out in scores. Maybe it has to do with a particular type of idiosyncrasy, maybe that in a number of countries, particularly in Japan and India, filmmakers feel the freedom to express themselves in any way they want, away from any kind of political correctness or even cinematic “rules”. A number of these movies have already garnered the title of cult, but as we are about to see in this particular list, titles from the whole spectrum of cinema can be found here. Without further ado, here are 40 movies that definitely deserve the title of weird, in alphabetical order.
Ps. The focus on Japanese films was inevitable…
1. A Man Vanishes
This is the closing...
Ps. The focus on Japanese films was inevitable…
1. A Man Vanishes
This is the closing...
- 6/18/2022
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
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