Dude!! I didn’t think you were going to choose “Revenge of the Ninja”!! Just because it technically isn’t a katana! Amazing fight! That was the very year I started martial arts!!
I was going to comment on that! The “ninja-to” with its straight blade and big square tsuba never existed historically, but it was the 1980s so of course it was fun! I recently watched “Enter the Ninja” again. It was such a B movie, but when I was 16 years old I thought it was the coolest movie ever. As an 18 year old college freshman without a car or a friend who had a car, I walked several miles to see “Ninja 3: The Domination”. I eventually made my own way to Japan to attend classes with Masaaki Hatsumi.
@@Maryland_Kulak nice! I lived in Japan for 3 years and forge my own blades here in Canada. I remember when Ninja 111 came out! I was so pumped and disappointed at the same time! My parents said I was not allowed to see it as it was rated R. They relented the first day and my dad took me lol!
Theres many Hollywood movies that used katana /katana-like sword & ive watched plenty of them imo have good Katana action too some of em are: The Hunted 1995 into the sun(steven seagel) The Warrior's Way . Ninja Assassin. Blade 1-2 . A Good man . Blind Fury 1990.
Some of these movies are - seen in hindsight - absolutely horrendously awful b-movies (!); but there are some very entertaining fight-scenes as well… Plus; Mifune Toshiro, Charles Bronson, Sanada Hiroyuki and Jackie are absolute Legends! 👍🏻☺️
This was a poor pop culture reference. Sword of Doom, Tatsuya Nakodai, Toshiro Mifune. The attack in the snow, at the cemetery. It's one of the best scenes ever...
Highlander games are not Katana. That's not Japanese culture. I would be happy if you could understand that Japan and China have quite different languages and cultures.
Thanks for featuring Hiroyuki Sanada HOK. He is truly a national treasure. 🌸🏵
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Dude!! I didn’t think you were going to choose “Revenge of the Ninja”!! Just because it technically isn’t a katana! Amazing fight! That was the very year I started martial arts!!
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I was going to comment on that! The “ninja-to” with its straight blade and big square tsuba never existed historically, but it was the 1980s so of course it was fun! I recently watched “Enter the Ninja” again. It was such a B movie, but when I was 16 years old I thought it was the coolest movie ever. As an 18 year old college freshman without a car or a friend who had a car, I walked several miles to see “Ninja 3: The Domination”. I eventually made my own way to Japan to attend classes with Masaaki Hatsumi.
@@Maryland_Kulak nice! I lived in Japan for 3 years and forge my own blades here in Canada. I remember when Ninja 111 came out! I was so pumped and disappointed at the same time! My parents said I was not allowed to see it as it was rated R. They relented the first day and my dad took me lol!
Close quarter combat.. a nagatsu is the perfect weapon.
How was Revenge of the Ninja on here, but not 13 Assassins?
Hollywood movies only... ;)
@@Seburo77 You got me there.
Thats jap movies
Theres many Hollywood movies that used katana /katana-like sword & ive watched plenty of them imo have good Katana action too some of em are: The Hunted 1995 into the sun(steven seagel) The Warrior's Way . Ninja Assassin. Blade 1-2 . A Good man . Blind Fury 1990.
& theres more although some of em is short & briefly like in Predator 2010 . The crow 2024( wakizashi) Deadpool too
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The Hunted should be on this list.
Some of these movies are - seen in hindsight - absolutely horrendously awful b-movies (!); but there are some very entertaining fight-scenes as well…
Plus; Mifune Toshiro, Charles Bronson, Sanada Hiroyuki and Jackie are absolute Legends! 👍🏻☺️
where's "The Hunted"?
Ya 1995
This was a poor pop culture reference.
Sword of Doom, Tatsuya Nakodai, Toshiro Mifune.
The attack in the snow, at the cemetery. It's one of the best scenes ever...
Hollywood movies only... ;)
@@Seburo77 Hollywood isn't Japanese...
Highlander games are not Katana.
That's not Japanese culture. I would be happy if you could understand that Japan and China have quite different languages and cultures.
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