Editing Six-String Samurai (section)

{{Short description|Film by Lance Mungia}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Six-String Samurai
| image          = Sixstringsamurai.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Lance Mungia]]
| producer       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Michael R. Burns|Michael Burns]]
* [[Leanna Creel]]
}}
| writer         = {{Plainlist|
* [[Jeffrey Falcon]]
* Lance Mungia
}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* Jeffrey Falcon
* Justin McGuire}}
| music          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Red Elvises]]
* [[Brian Tyler]]
}}
| cinematography = Kristian Bernier
| editing        = James Frisa
| distributor    = [[Palm Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1998}}
| runtime        = 91 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $2 million [[United States dollar|USD]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Martell|first=William|title=Greenlight Indie Screenwriting - Screenwriting article by William C. Martell|url=http://www.scriptsecrets.net/articles/samurai.htm|publisher=Script Secrets|accessdate=3 December 2012|year=2004|archive-date=1 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701092644/http://www.scriptsecrets.net/articles/samurai.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

'''''Six-String Samurai''''' is a 1998 American [[apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|post-apocalyptic]] [[action comedy film]] directed by [[Lance Mungia]] and starring [[Jeffrey Falcon]] and Justin McGuire. [[Brian Tyler]] composed the score for this film along with [[Red Elvises]], the latter providing the majority of the soundtrack.

The film was greeted with a great deal of excitement when shown at [[Slamdance Film Festival|Slamdance]] in 1998, winning the Slamdance awards for best [[editing]] and [[cinematography]], and gathering extremely favorable reviews from influential alternative, [[cult film|cult]] and [[independent film|indie film]] publications such as ''[[Fangoria]]'', ''[[Film Threat]]''<ref>{{cite news | author=Gore, Chris | authorlink=Chris Gore | url=http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=1131 | title=Six-String Samurai | publisher=[[Film Threat]] | date=1998-01-26 | accessdate=2006-09-03 | archive-date=2009-09-03 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903131431/http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=1131 | url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Ain't It Cool News]]. It is billed as a "post-apocalyptic [[Musical film|musical]] [[satire (film and television)|satire]]".<ref>[http://worldfilm.about.com/library/weekly/aa073099.htm World / Independent Film - Review: Six-String Samurai] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707075435/http://worldfilm.about.com/library/weekly/aa073099.htm |date=2011-07-07 }} by Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky. About.com. Retrieved on 2-6-2010.</ref>

In a limited theatrical release the film ran for several months in a few theaters, gaining a reputation as a minor [[cult film]]; having a budget of $2,000,000, it only made a mere $124,494 at the box offices. An intended trilogy has been discussed but not yet realized, just like the predicted launching of the career of the film's star, [[Jeffrey Falcon]], a [[martial arts|martial artist]] who had appeared in several [[Hong Kong action cinema|Hong Kong action movies]] in the 1980s and early 1990s. While Mungia made several music videos, he did not direct another feature until the 2005 film ''[[The Crow: Wicked Prayer]]''.