- Paul Lindholdt (Wikipedia)
Paul Lindholdt is an American academic. Originally from Seattle, he teaches now at Eastern Washington University. He won a Washington State Book Award for his ecological memoir In Earshot of Water and earlier recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Academy of American Poets.
- Samurai cinema (Wikipedia)
Chanbara (チャンバラ), also commonly spelled “chambara”, meaning “sword fighting” films, 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. Jidaigeki may refer to a story set in a historical period, though not necessarily dealing with a samurai character or depicting swordplay.