gojoe be part of a new wave of japanese cinema and take very creative director and editor and photographer and work on historic theme and what the japanese call period piece . gojoe be extremely creative in term of color and photography and and edit . brilliant and even . the new wave of japanese samurai film allow a peek at traditional belief in shamanism and demon and occult power that be certainly a part of their ancient culture and but not really explore in kurosawa samurai epic and or the zaitochi series . another fine example of this genre be onmyoji ( 2001 ) . i would place director sogo ichii a one of the most interesting and creative of the new wave japanese director . other recent japanese period piece i would highly recommend include yomada twilight samurai ( 2002 ) and shintaro katsu zatoichi represent the blind swordsman ( 2003 ) .