A famous duel ‘Miyamoto Musashi VS Sasaki Kojiro’ in Japan

marzo 28, 2011 · By admin

One of the most famous duel(1612) in Japanese samurai history. Kojiro said “You can’t kill me with that shabby wooden stick.” Musashi said “You’ve lost because you threw away the sheath.” Kojiro answered “I won’t use this bloody sword after killing you.”

25 Responses

Slappy27

dicembre 28th, 2010 at 14:06
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@memmori1 actually the duel was completely leagal, and normal at that time. With no wars many samurai took to challenging themselves against other masters, it’s like dueling at 20 paces. In the book of five rings, you find (which I agree) there is no such thing as “fair play” in battle. Musashi was one of the earliest people to practice psychological warfare. He’d show up purposley late for one duel, then early for another. He used whatever he could to throw is opponent off their game.
memmori1

dicembre 28th, 2010 at 20:23
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@Slappy27 I don’t argue that the duel was legal (it was officially announced, after all). But anyway I think Musashi’s behaviour was rather offensive – coming late and using such an inappropriate weapon. That he never thought about ‘fair play’ (as well as his opponents) is obvious considering his previous fight against Yoshioka school when he killed in cold blood the young Yoshioka heir, Genjiro, who even didn’t try to oppose him and was no match to him.
memmori1

dicembre 28th, 2010 at 20:27
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@BuscoBeast The same running was in the old Samurai: The Battle on Ganryujima Island movie, when Toshiro Mifune played Musashi and Koji Tsuruta played Kojiro.
Mahaweilo

gennaio 5th, 2011 at 00:47
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did any1 notice that the ocean looks freaking awesome?
Entei2000

gennaio 7th, 2011 at 04:21
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When ever I watch this I remember a duel between me and my friend in Kendo.
Entei2000

gennaio 7th, 2011 at 04:26
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But in a Fair way, I miis my friend and the old days in kendo.
sankajou

gennaio 9th, 2011 at 13:43
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where i can find this whole movie??????
Trollgolem

gennaio 14th, 2011 at 17:18
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@MrZeus169 well, the sword is quite heavy, 2 hands hold also make sure you can defend well against your opponent. and in Sasaki’s case, I think it’s impossible for him to hold his nodachi using one hand.
HmongGuitarPlayer

gennaio 15th, 2011 at 19:29
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water tast bad,crap!
MatthewZachary001

gennaio 16th, 2011 at 19:36
10

bull he nt dead
tengokunoshi

gennaio 16th, 2011 at 21:00
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the older movie is better
ayman1006

gennaio 20th, 2011 at 19:25
12

This is like a cheezy anime in HD.
smokeyandcraig

gennaio 22nd, 2011 at 03:17
13

this sucked ass
Chig4ebele

gennaio 28th, 2011 at 10:03
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what a dumb remake!!
shinjukugewalt

febbraio 3rd, 2011 at 11:36
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lol that guy looks too weedy to be musashi
Anathema1984

febbraio 12th, 2011 at 11:19
16

Final words

“Fuck you, Musashi!”
Tomi852

febbraio 13th, 2011 at 21:58
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@sankajou You can find the whole series on mysoju.c o m I had to separate in order to avoid my message being deleted.
Tomi852

febbraio 13th, 2011 at 21:59
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@Anathema1984 ^^ yup. Final words in fact: It was magnificent, Musashi
Tomi852

febbraio 13th, 2011 at 22:07
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@Slappy27 According to the book the late arrival was of dual purpose: to unnerve Kojiro and to catch the tide helping him in his escape of the island. And the idea of the wooden oar was Musashi’s only chance against Kojiro’s 3 feet long sword. If he used his ordinary Katana against him he would have had an obvious disadvantage. He needed something longer, thats all.
tigertraxx2002

febbraio 14th, 2011 at 04:57
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it about a similar to actual events as a banana. Ha Ha, tension tension, pish, Sasaki was spitting feather, Musashi won before he even set foot on the beach, this is well know, so why ignore the truth of. This not the Musashi I know love.
tigertraxx2002

febbraio 14th, 2011 at 04:59
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It`s about as similar the to actual events as a banana. Sasaki was spitting feathers, Musashi had won the duel before he even set foot on the beach. Tension tension, pish. The truth of it is well know, so why ignore the facts. Compelling TV I think not. This is not the Musashi I know and love.
no1isperfect4anyone

marzo 1st, 2011 at 15:15
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boring….
TheGrowingTree

marzo 2nd, 2011 at 22:59
23

Theres a guy who makes music under the name Musashi…

Look up Blizzard [10-50] by him, I highly recommend it…just a suggestion.

Its kinda like…ambient or something…i dunno

Peace and Namaste friends
BrandNewSongz

marzo 15th, 2011 at 22:30
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1612 ?….then the 1st bullet cam appeared in this movie. at 3:20 more exactly.
effigytormented

marzo 28th, 2011 at 04:58
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@Tomi852 he really did know how to press a tactical advantage.