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	List of Battle Arena Toshinden characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the games state Ellis to be Turkish, she is actually Japanese, although this is not revealed until the second game.
		To her horror, the letter revealed that Gaia was actually her Father (similar to the Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader situation) and that she and Gaia were the only ones to survive the car crash eighteen years ago.
		Tracy, being a skilled fighter as well as a policeman, was narrowly defeated by a Japanese Adventurer named Eiji Shinjo, but she eventually found the answers she needed: The now-dead Uranus was the one responsible for the deaths of Gaia's wife and son.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vermillion,_the_Living_Enigma (4828 words)

	Echo Station: Jedi Style
		While the fighting in Episode I is an invented martial arts system designed to help tell the tale of a fallen Jedi and his return from the dark side, fencing, stage fighting, and modern and traditional martial arts have all had an influence on the swordsmanship of Star Wars.
		It is no secret that the samurai films of Japanese filmaker Arika Kurosawa has served as inspiration to many of the artistic direction and themes in the Star Wars universe.
		Of course all swordwork, whether Japanese katana, Chinese sword, or Western fencing requires speed and economy of movement, this fidelity to true sword movement reflects the life-like quality Gillard wanted for Episode I. In addition, other skills needed for swordwork include precise timing, accurate movement, and perfect coordination.
	www.echostation.com /features/jedistyle.htm (4698 words)

	Tozai - School of Iaido - Art McConnell
		Popularly known as “the art of drawing the sword”;, Iaido is the contemporary legacy of the samurai of feudal Japan.
		Hayashizake Jinsuke Shigenobu is considered the legendary founder of Iaido as a concept and practice distinct from swordfighting in the 16th century, paralleling the development of a unified country.
		After Japan was finally unified under Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu early in the 17th century, the samurai combined their war skills with their interest in Zen philosophy and spiritual refinement.
	www.dojos.com /tozai (238 words)

	Aikido as Spiritual Practice in the United States by Peter W
		As a practitioner of Japanese martial arts, I was intrigued by the connections between the martial arts and Asian philosophy and religions, and how Americans viewed their practice.
		To be useful, he would have to study Japanese and American practitioners of the same styles of Aikido, rather than ones with opposing views on the point he wishes to analyze.
		Therefore, although some of these exercises may have roots in esoteric Japanese practices, it is the ideas that are connected to them by American practitioners rather than their historical roots that have importance for Aikido practitioners in the United States.
	arizonaenergy.org /Aikido/aikido_as_spiritual_practice_in_.htm (22551 words)

	The Japanese Warrior Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Only the highest ranking soldiers had the honor of riding a strong steed into battle and the warriors from the Kanto plain, who were hailed throughout Japan for their fighting abilities, were the finest horsemen in the country.
		These kamikaze were viewed by the Japanese as unmistakeable proof that the gods had favored and protected them in their time of need.
		Later, in WWII, Japanese suicide-fighter pilots were called kamikaze for they would, in effect, become the winds sent down from the gods to destroy their enemy.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~dfukushi/Warrior.html (1542 words)

	Sogo Budokan: Iaido (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Samourai, for whom both life and death revolved around the sword, perfected the swordfighting art during the Edo era (1603-1867) to the point where the drawing of the sword became the decisive moment in combat.
		When the subsequent Meji government forbade the Samourai to carry their weapons in public, the swordfighting skills persisted through the effort of several dojos who were unwilling to sacrifice all this hard-learned knowledge and tradition.
		In typical Japanese style, however, none of the practical constraints or necessities were sacrificed in this abstraction, and due to their well-known love of efficiency and minimalist ways, Iaido has remained an extremely efficient, thoroughly practical and above all mysteriously beautiful art.
	beo03.ugent.be /sogobudokan/iaido (385 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Last Warrior (1989)
		In their eyes, his very presence is an unnecessary risk that could bring the Japanese down on them at any minute.
		Also remaining behind is Katherine (Maria Holvöe, Worth Winning, Willow), a novice who escaped the notice of the Japanese search party and who conveniently has not yet taken her vows as a nun.
		The direction is pretty good; writer-director Martin Wragge at least knows how to build some good suspense in a scene, and he uses his creepy locations such as the rusting, burned out hulk of a ship in the harbor, to quite nice effect.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/lastwarrior.php (781 words)

	SPCNET.TV - How impressed was Gwok Seung by Ho Juk Do's martial arts?
		Japanese martial culture was based on "survival of the fittest".
		The Japanese martial arts went through a dramatic change, but was still preserved more or less intact.
		But basically, Japanese sword art was already considered to be more effective than the Chinese during the Ming dynasty, centuries before Boxer Rebellion and Cultural Revolution.
	www.spcnet.tv /forums/showthread.php?t=10342 (1645 words)

	Historic Japanese Samurai Swordfighting Adventure Arrives on PlayStation(R)2 With Release Of Genji: Dawn of the ...
		Historic Japanese Samurai Swordfighting Adventure Arrives on PlayStation(R)2 With Release Of Genji: Dawn of the Samurai(TM)
		Developed by Game Republic, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, Genji: Dawn of the Samurai is an intense 3D single-player samurai swordfighting action-adventure game set upon twelfth century feudal Japan.
		A dramatic samurai plot fused with mythology, Genji: Dawn of the Samurai delivers a story of two noble warriors engaged in a crusade against mythical forces controlling Japan.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-20-2005/0004110975&EDATE= (607 words)

	Goro's Asian Movies and Stuff Blog: April 2005
		Japanese movie BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL produced by the cool-ass director Ryuhei Kitamura and based on a manga by Man-Gataro is due out in the US R1 May 31.
		Note: the five principal girls were all cast during an open casting call and none of them had ever played a musical instrument before, but the girls did much of their own playing and even had a concert to promote the movie (which is also available on dvd).
		There was an R2 NTSC Japanese version available in a Juzo Itami boxset at CDJapan.co.jp (but no english subs), but it's also now OP.
	evilninjax.typepad.com /evil_ninja_xs_asian_movie/2005/04 (9707 words)

	The JET Program: School Levels
		Living in Japan, you'll have the opportunity to see or participate in Japanese cultural festivals or rituals.
		It was not the easiest thing in the world to do, not having a Japanese teacher with me at all the meetings.
		Be forgiving of Japanese idiosyncrasies, but don't be afraid to assert yourself.
	farstrider.net /JET/Opportunities.htm (632 words)

	Movie Review \| The Hunted (1995) Christopher Lambert, John Lone
		Everything from the characters to the city life to its portrayal of Japanese customs, from the cops to the Chinko addicts to every Japanese character, rings true to life.
		I could almost believe that this was actually a Japanese movie written and directed by a Japanese person immerse and intimately familiar with Japanese culture.
		One of the movie's plus is its brutal portrayal of the swordfighting and the wanton bloody mess of men cutting each other with swords.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/thehunted.htm (1149 words)

	Home Theater Forum - Asian Cinema on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The male lead (and love interest) of the movie is a pawn employed by a terrorist group to detonate explosives in buildings, and he too is targeted for elimination for disobeying command (to murder innocent people).
		There is much swordfighting and violence, played out for fun.
		It is certainly rather "Japanese", with no happy ending, and also looks rather low budget.
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/printpost.php?postid=2277576 (218 words)

	KITANO, TAKESHI
		Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano is best known for his tough yakuza movies and penetrating dramas.
		I knew that Tarantino would be taking the piss out of Japanese culture and messing with the concept of Japanese genre films before I saw it.
		But he adds that it might not be a good idea to make such a film in Japan, where the samurai sword has a sacred position in local culture.
	www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/filmmakers/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000692682 (1006 words)

	Dante
		He's a quarter Japanese and trained for seven years in Japan with a friend of his grandfather's, and that means I can write all sorts of nifty swordfighting samurai things.
		Some of the most fun I've had, giving into my obsession with Japanese history, is stuff from when Dante was a teenager and was learning kendo, Japanese swordfighting, in Japan.
		He didn't speak much as a general rule since he was petrified of offending someone, and he tried to get the Japanese protocol as near to perfect as possible.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~kraynes/dante.html (1132 words)

	Vue Weekly : Articles
		The white-haired beggar stands bowlegged, blind eyes closed; his head is cocked, listening, as he holds his lacquered red walking-stick at face level, as if to ward off a coming blow.
		In movies and reality, Japanese swordfighting—all swordfighting, really—is and was not the tink-tink-tink-tink thrust and parry of swashbuckling films and mannered stage-fighting.
		Ideally the draw, the killing strike, and the re-sheathing of the blade is a single fluid motion.
	www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=372 (858 words)

	Cupid Episode - BakakageWiki
		When the Bakuten guy talks about the manager being Aihara Yu, she was a fairly famous Japanese actress, but she supposedly ran off to New York when her fame started get out of hand.
		More information on her can be found at her website or her Japanese wiki entry.
		During the rehearsal Ohta says "We've been together often, haven't we?", the actual Japanese is more literally "We've played together often, haven't we?" But since we don't use that word for people that aren't technically children anymore, it was changed to "been together".
	wiki.bakakage.net /Cupid_Episode (652 words)

	Aikido Shobukan Dojo
		He also considers western misperceptions of Japanese traditional martial arts and argues that, contrary to common views in the West, Zen Buddhism is associated with the martial arts in only a limited way.
		Cameron Hurst III is professor of history and director of the Center for East Asian studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Contents Preface Introduction Chapter One Martial Arts and Japanese Culture Part I. Swordsmanship Chapter Two The early tradition Chapter Three From self-protection to self-perfection in the Early and Mid Tokugawa Chapter Four The Sporting element in the Late Tokugawa Part II.
	www.aikido-shobukan.org /books/View.aspx?id=669 (423 words)

	Let's talk about swordfighting in movies. \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Medieval swordsmanship (european/italian etc, not japanese) is not my area, but I've talked with a number of practicioners, and the belief that swords were ultra-heavy and that manipulating them was a ponderous and heavy affair is on the same level as the belief that katana can cut through anything, including car doors, big trees, etc.
		This has spread since then and is used by various groups to introduce students to japanese swordsmanship, for different organizational bodies to grade students, etc. It's a very formalized set, very formal etiquette, and the forms are all responses against attacks by the enemy.
		In my study of the use of the Japanese sword, as an advanced beginner user(i.e less-than 10 years), I was always taught to use the edge{the Ha} itself for parries and blocks {Shin Kage Ryu and Genpo Soto-Jutsu styles}.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/35518 (9688 words)

	Guilty Gear X2 #Reload Background FAQ - IGN FAQs
		Although her birthplace is unknown, avidence suggests that she is of Japanese descent.
		Although her skill with a Japanese sword is great, she is no match for our military might.
		Regardless of his intentions, the danger of leaving a Japanese man unattended is profound.
	faqs.ign.com /articles/457/457977p1.html (2190 words)

	DVD of the Week: (11/24/2003): Princess Blade
		Princess Blade is a remake, sort of, of an earlier Japanese film known in English-speaking territories as Lady Snowblood, although it's actually an adaptation of a Kazue Koike manga.
		That movie, and its sequel, are undisputed classics in the genre of Japanese chanbara (swordfighting) films, and as soon as they're reissued I plan on giving them a look.
		English and Japanese audio are both present, but bonuses are nonexistent except for other ADV trailers.
	www.thegline.com /dvd-of-the-week/2003/11-24-2003.htm (807 words)

	"Kill Bill: Vol. 1" - Salon
		(Tarantino presented his "Iron Monkey" in the United States.) Veteran Japanese film and TV star Sonny Chiba appears in the picture as a master sword craftsman; he also trained the film's stars, Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu, in Japanese swordfighting technique.
		He and his cinematographer Robert Richardson pay close attention to details, and their acuity can be deeply pleasurable: The Bride travels to Tokyo to find O-Ren, showing up at the latter's favorite nightspot, the House of Blue Leaves (perhaps the first nightclub ever to take its name from a John Guare play, but it works).
		The house band there is a trio of petite surf punkettes -- they're played by the real-life Japanese outfit the 5.6.7.8's -- who wield their guitars like the Ramones, even though they're wearing sheath dresses and bouffants and have bare feet.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2003/10/10/kill_bill/index.html (958 words)

	Dojo englisch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sport Kendo is an attractive modern sport that came into being in the early 1950's, retaining certain elements of Japanese swordfighting and Budo that were not offensive to the Occupation authorities.
		Even most Japanese born after 1940 know of nothing else but this as Kendo.
		All participants without exception should always try to use realistically large techniques that would be effective in an actual armored swordfight.
	www.z-case.de /budo/dojo_e.htm (897 words)

	Ken Watanabe as "Katsumoto" in "The Last Samurai": Take reviews by some film critics with a huge grain of salt!
		I will start with telling you that one of the quickest ways to find out about Japanese history and culture is to go to Amazon.com and read reviews of books on Japanese history and culture.
		If you can endure reading though reader reviews, you will find that a lot of highly-educated Japanese natives and transplants, in the course of their reviews, post enough quotes for you to pick up a lot of facts.
		Many of these books were written in Japanese and translated into English, while others are the works of foreign scholars who specialize in Japanese history.
	www.tmsdancer.com /ken_watanabe/grain_of_salt.html (1658 words)

	Kristen Kyle - Research Notes - The Last Warrior - Swords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Katana - long sword, one of two swords carried by the samurai thrust through his sash cutting edge upwards.
		It was the fighting sword, foremost of Japanese weapons, and long considered by sword collecting enthusiasts as the finest in the world.
		Plain fl lacquered was usually the choice of the bravest warriors, but could also be finished in mother-of-pearl inlay, gold inlay, enamel of any color such as burgundy or green or gold, covered in brocade, decorated with designs of sparrows, leaves, bamboo, or any other traditional Japanese design.
	www.kristenkyle.com /rbb_tlw3.html (1114 words)

	Kristen Kyle - Research Notes - The Last Warrior - Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Parulski, George R. Sword of the Samurai: The Classical Art of Japanese Swordsmanship, Paladin, Dec 1985, ISBN: 0873643321.
		Irvine, Gregory - The Japanese Sword: The Soul of the Samurai (Victoria and Albert Museum: Far Eastern Series), Weatherhill, Sep 2000, ISBN: 0834804751.
		Benedict, Ruth - Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, Houghton Mifflin, June 1989, ISBN: 0395500753.
	www.kristenkyle.com /rbb_tlw1.html (279 words)

	Kill Bill Vol. 1
		I know QT was doing swordfighting the Japanese way with the quick brutal deaths, and Sonny Chiba was cast as a nod to those films like Street Fighter, but those Chiba films had some amazing longer fights as well.
		What passed for best screenplay was more like someone who just got off the plane for their first visit to Japan filming some people doing things they weren't used to and then sending the tape to a funniest home videos show hoping they could win a few bucks.
		The things they mocked are familiar to anyone that's seen even a few hours of Japanese television, and once you've seen or heard them a few times whatever comic luster there might have been is gone.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/killbillvol1.html (5098 words)

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