Eiichi Kudo's Samurai Revolution Trilogy (Limited Edition) Boris Karloff Gallery of Gore: Pine Barrens

Gallery of Gore: Pine Barrens murder crime scene and autopsy images

Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) is now a 5-something widower after the death of his beloved Adrian

war and revenge

PLUS: An essay on the trilogy by critic Dennis Lim"

Mary Harron

Eiichi Kudo's Samurai Revolution Trilogy (Limited Edition) Boris Karloff Gallery of Gore: Pine BarrensThe Samurai Revolution trilogy depicts the rot at the heart of the Tokugawa shogunate. Throughout Japanese cinema, the image of the noble samurai righting wrongs katana in hand remains a fixture of the jidaigeki genre, with the authoritarianism and corruption of the country's medieval past often attenuated for the sake of spectacle and entertainment. But in the 1960s, director Eiichi Kudo's Samurai Revolution trilogy shattered this idealised