Back from the dead. Part 3, Samurai.

Date:
2011
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Description

A team of forensic scientists investigate the remains of a grave filled with thousands of skeletons at Kamakura in Japan thought to hold evidence relating to the Samurai warriors. The burial ground dates back to 1333. The stories behind six sets of remains are given - a husband and wife involved in a sword fight to the death, a warrior monk, a peasant boy soldier and memberso of the Joho family, captured and decapitated, their heads used as trophies.

Publication/Creation

UK : Channel 4, 2011.

Physical description

1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color, PAL

Copyright note

October Films

Notes

Broadcast on 18 September, 2011

Creator/production credits

Produced and directed by Matthew Catling

Type/Technique

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