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Inside the building, the life and journey of Miyamoto Musashi are remembered everywhere. Dedicated to martial arts, the Budokan is the source for all of Japan's official traditional saber and kendo schools. Practically, historically and culturally it is a junction for martial disciplines in the heart of traditional Japan dedicated to Musashi.
Seven Samurai was a technical and creative watershed that became Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry. It has remained highly influential, often seen as one of the most "remade, reworked, referenced" films in cinema. [11] There have been pachinko machines based on Seven Samurai in Japan.
It tells the story of the rōnin Hanshirō Tsugumo, [3] who requests to commit seppuku (harakiri) within the manor of a local feudal lord, using the opportunity to explain the events that drove him to ask for death before an audience of samurai. The film continues to receive critical acclaim, often considered one of the greatest films of all time.
The comic book Usagi Yojimbo stars a rabbit samurai inspired by Musashi. [5] In Steve Perry's Matador book series and novel The Musashi Flex, the "Musashi Flex" is an illegal underground martial arts competition named after Musashi. Musashi was the subject of Sword of the Samurai, a book in the Time Machine series by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry.
The film is the first film of Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy of historical adventures. [3] [2] The film is adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, [2] originally released as a serial in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, between 1935 and 1939. The novel is loosely based on the life of the famous Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.
Seven Samurai has been remade as a Western and a science fiction context film, The Magnificent Seven and Battle Beyond the Stars. Other samurai influenced western movies include Charles Bronson and Toshirō Mifune in Red Sun (1971), David Mamet's Ronin (with Jean Reno and Robert De Niro), Six-String Samurai (1998) and Ghost Dog: The Way of the ...
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源 義経, c. 1159 – June 15, 1189) was a commander of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. During the Genpei War, he led a series of battles that toppled the Ise-Heishi branch of the Taira clan, helping his half-brother Yoritomo consolidate power.
Kurosawa Akira (1910–1998) Japan's greatest director; Uesugi Kenshin (1530–1578) daimyō; Marie Curie (1867–1934) physicist and chemist, First woman to win a Nobel Prize; Satō Eisaku (1901–1975) Prime Minister of Japan; Sanada Yukimura (1567–1615) Samurai warrior of the Sengoku period