Musashi

Take heart, my ronin, the cavalry's here.

Loved the Musashi series. :applaud:
<-That's Matahach over there, my inspiration. ;)

I think the Kojiro Sasaki character was already developed as a romantic character previously. My wife was yakking about him long before he appeared in the show. What a guy, indeed. The man made short work of him...

More from Musashi's Official book 2:

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The marvelous Matsuoka Masahiro as Sasaki Kojiro :love_eyes:

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To Itazura Ichiban, a Tsusumi Shinichi's pic as Matahachi:

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More Matsuoka Masahiro as Sasaki Kojiro: :love_eyes: :applaud:

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And, once again, the talented Ichikawa Shinnosuke as Musashi: :applaud:

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To my friend bmwracer, Yonekura Ryoko as Otsu:

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Betsy Hayashi wrote:The marvelous Matsuoka Masahiro as Sasaki Kojiro :love_eyes:

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Betsy, great pic of Kojiro and his deadly "clothes-line rod" sword. :applaud:

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Peg

Wow, I love this pic :love_eyes: :love_eyes:

groink wrote:I'm actually watching Musashi all over again! Right now I just finished episode 3. Funny what things you forget in a year's time.

Oooh. I can't wait to do the same. :D

I'm also watching the trilogy from the 1950's. I bought and watched Samurai 1 over this past weekend, then taped Samurai 3 off of one of the pay channels two nights ago. I need to buy Samurai 2 before watching number 3.

Ah, you're talking about the award-winning Samurai Trilogy (If I recall, Miyamoto Musashi was the first film ever to win the Best Foreign Laguage Film Oscar) directed by Inagaki Hiroshi... I've got the LDs of the trilogy and I don't know how many times I've watched it. I hope Criterion releases a restored and remastered version of the trilogy in the near future...

Watching the series and the movie, I can see now why some people prefer the movie-version of Otsu over the TV version (Ryoko). Otsu from the 50's looked more like a fragile flower, while Ryoko looked stronger. Supposedly using the book as the foundation to everything (I haven't read it yet), the 50's Otsu is a closer match than Ryoko's version. Nothing against Ryoko -- I guess the director of the TV series had something else in mind.

I sorta agree and disagree. There's no doubt that Yachigusa Kaoru's Otsu was considerably more fragile the Ryoko-chan's Otsu, but both Otsu's were demure, single-minded, and driven to be with Musashi. It might be that Ryoko-chan's supermodel looks overpowered the character she played.

brad2 wrote:Do you really think so?? Well you know what they say...Americans talk about it all the time and English people just get on with it......

Speaking for myself..... :D

Japanese seem to have a very broad minded view. At least I think so from what I see on jdramas. ? Not so?

Brqd

Huh? *scratches head*

To Uchiyama Rina fan, a pic of her as Akemi:

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Here's comes my Otsu flood: :hehe:

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Takashima Masanobu as Yagyu Hyogonosuke:

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A very emotional scene from Musashi:

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hey i like musashi, but i have no pics and i missed alot of episodes, i dont have anything to show :sweat:

hey bmw, that was my favorite episode :mrgreen: darn, i shouldve just recorded that :shakehead:

MixxDreamer wrote:hey i like musashi, but i have no pics and i missed alot of episodes, i dont have anything to show :sweat:

That's okay. Tell us what you liked or didn't like about the show... Ask any question you want about the show... Someone will answer it, I'm sure... :D

hey bmw, that was my favorite episode :mrgreen: darn, i shouldve just recorded that :shakehead:

It was an excellent episode. It choked me up pretty good... :)

Wow, bmwracer, that's one of my favorites scenes !!!! :D :applaud:

Well, more pics: the great Abe Hiroshi as Gion Toji:

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Betsy Hayashi wrote:Wow, bmwracer, that's one of my favorites scenes !!!! :D :applaud:

Well, more pics: the great Abe Hiroshi as Gion Toji:

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Whoa, another great pic. Hard to believe that this guy also played the goofy, semi-cowardly professor from the Trick series... What an actor. :applaud: :D