chanbara

English

Alternative forms

  • chambara

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ちゃんばら (“swordplay”).

Noun

chanbara (uncountable)

  1. A Japanese genre of period action film about samurai.
    • 2012, Yuna de Lannoy, “An Analysis of the Soundscape of Akira Kurosawa's Chambara Westerns”, in Kathryn Kalinak, editor, Music in the Western:
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.