Chanbara (チャンバラ), also commonly spelled "chambara", meaning "sword fighting" films, [1] denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to Western and swashbuckler films. Chanbara is a sub-category of jidaigeki, which equates to period drama. More @Wikipedia
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