Boasting an ensemble cast led by the timeless Toshiro Mifune, this monumental film explores the visceral human quandaries of sacrifice, honor, and camaraderie. Seven Samurai, a cornerstone of Japanese cinema, weaves ceaselessly captivating action into an all-embracing narrative, propelling it to the ...
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His mother comes from a Samurai aristocratic background but married a Korean. Then got divorced! That is very unusual for this time. The boy is determined to apprentice with a famous cartoonist. I wondered if the story rang so true because it was Say’s own story. I finished the book, ...
It was the job of the shinobi to obtain this kind of crucial information. They would infiltrate the enemy domain and ascertain the lay of the land…and create chaos through acts of sabotage and arson.” Samurai and Bushido The samurai, members of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, ...
The Twilight Samuraiis the first film inYoji Yamada’sSamurai Trilogyand is followed byThe Hidden BladeandLove and Honor. The film is said to be inspired byShuhei Fujisawa's short story "The Bamboo Sword" and depicts the turbulent social, political, and economic times of 19th-century Japan,...
Knights were bound by Catholic Christian law against suicide and strove to avoid death. Samurai, on the other hand, had no religious reason to avoid death and would commit suicide in the face of defeat in order to maintain their honor. This ritual suicide is known as seppuku (or "harakiri...
Perhaps the most famous wartime poster, "The Samurai," is at the top of this article. Independence is Almost here (1945) The Japanese army's occupation of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to August 1945 was made easier by the promise of "liberation" from Dutch colonialism and national ...
roots of the “Japanese identity”–a bloody business, in her estimation, replete with martial competitions, samurai ethics, and the fearsome warriors’ code of bushido, the clear inference being, despite the disclaimer, that “the path to Nanking” runs through the very marrow of Japanese ...
first novel. He also became the TV commercial face of drink maker Yakult. Watanabe, followed by Sanada Hiroyuki, leads his troops in a still from "The Last Samurai." (© Warner Bros.) While on the New Zealand set of "The Last Samurai," Watanabe and other staff and crew appeared by ...
After Singapore fell, Rogge would become one of three Germans (the other two being Hermann Göring and Erwin Rommel) who would receive a jeweled samurai sword from the Emperor of Japan as a gesture of thanks. All of this intelligence was useful to the Japanese, as their army had little ...