Why Japan's Samurai Were Nothing Like You Think - Hilarious Helmet History
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Let's talk about Japan's samurai! Not the honorable Tom Cruises, but the actual ... well ... just watch and learn because apparently literally everyone was a samurai -- from stuffy nobility to probably gross pirates.
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According to my definitely correct source, The LEGO NINJAGO movie, you are incorrect
The meatball man is inevitable.
Your intelligence is unmatched,
This is what weebs sound like when they use anime as historical information
Thanks for exposing this man for his bullshido
This a joke but yh right if take it correct.
😂
Came here after starting ghost of tsushima, turns out they were all acting like... Humans
Gavin Seim Yeah, the game is an exaggeration. The Samurais were ... humans, not overly honourable legends like they are in the game.
@Soulwalker Young there used to be a time where samurais liked to kill random peasants as a sport so it had to be forbidden xD.
Same, I first wanted to make Jin look more historically accurate and then I got really interested in the history in general
Never realized how awesome learning about history was, it's basically a study of humanity through the course of time. The more you study history the more you know about yourself and the culture your in.
It's crazy how the educational system manages to make history boring (along with whitewashing bullshit so those in power don't look bad).
So basically, Samurai Champloo was way more accurate than we thought.
Fullmetal1890P 😂
Fullmetal1890P love samurai champloo 😭
Minus the over-the-top action that is physically and anatomically impossible, yes.
So basically, no.
Sturmbunker18 the fact that you can't spell the word 'storm' and you have a british colonial interloper flag as your profile pic speaks volumes about your ignorance, as does your comment. Yasuke was the name that Oda Nobunaga gave to an african slave who was brought to japan in service of Portuguese or Dutch jesuit missionaries - most likely because his real name contained sounds that the native Japanese tongue has difficulty making. When Oda Nobunaga, heard about him, he was convinced his black skin was ink or dye of some kind, and requested Yasuke be brought before him and asked to scrub his skin vigorously to prove that it was his genuine skin color, which the japanese had never seen prior to him. When Nobunaga determined it was in fact not a hoax, he became even more interested in Yasuke due in part to his unheard of large stature and the fact that he was said by Nobunaga himself to possess the strength of ten men. The Oda clan made Yasuke a formal bushi retainer (ie samurai) and he fought alongside Nobunaga until Nobunaga was defeated. Instead of being executed or held prisoner, Yasuke was supposedly turned back over to the Jesuit missionaries and that's where his documented story ends. But don't take my word for it; do the research yourself, educate your ignorant colonist ass.
Tom Cruise is not an actor. He plays Tom Cruise in every movie.
thijsjong this is true and it's glorious
I have to give him credit, he is great at playing Tom Cruise and making me believe the situation Tom Cruise is in.
Damned right.
And he really knows how to pick movies in which Tom Cruise fit's as a charactor.
At least it's always the character only he can portrait
"Oh well, movies are dead. Read a book. Bye!" That's great.
Holy shit! Nobunaga had a black samurai!? The fuck Japan how many fucking anime's have you made about Nobunaga and none of them have the black guy!?
NewGuy1414 Well Nioh had Yasuke as a boss
NewGuy1414 He was a slave to Portuguese and he left Japan as a slave when he left Japan.
Why make an anime of that?
Meta tron No he was not. He was a free man in Japan and no one even knows if he left Japan, there are no reliable sources of his death.
Right? How is there not an Afro Samurai guarding Oda Nobunaga anime? That writes itself. (I'm mostly picturing another season of Samurai Champloo now that I think about it)
go watch/read hyouge mono and nobunaga kyousoukyoku, yasuke is in there, and actually don't watch nobunaga kyousoukyoku anime, many content cutted.
"Other things that are characteristic of Humans, actual humans"
That's actually very meaningful
You must be quite new here, welcome to the Interconnecting Net
Tobias Zauner Most people treat people from the past as non humans in how they expect them to act. Especially in Great Man style history.
Samurai was a social class, not an immediate label as 'warrior'
Right! They were equivalent to knights and barons.
Correct!
You had to be born into the samurai class to be a samurai. One was not just simply made one.
Jet Alone i think OP’s point was that the samurai weren’t JUST warriors, that is was also a societal class. I.E. how they were trained from youth, and studied philosophy and whatnot. I could be wrong though
@@TheSchnut115 tell that to mugen from samurai champloo
Is there a different between samurai and known swordsman like Miyamoto musashi or kojiro sasaki
"The 7 Samurai" from 1954.
that is the best cinematic representation of not only the Edo Era, but how Expendable and Pridefull Samurai really were...
I like how this guy debunks the stereotypical conception of Samurai as one specific thing at one point in history by invoking the stereotypical knight as one specific thing at one point in history.
Yeah that bugged me as well.
Goes back to the same idea of the cultural perception versus the historical fact. Knights started out as basically just a protection racket. Your village is being ransacked by bandits with swords and horses? Pay a different group with swords and horses to protect you. Eventually they got wealthy enough to buy noble titles, but the lowest ones without any land attached. Chivalry is all about swordfighting and horsemanship (literally comes from the French word for horse, cheval,) and the whole being honorable and polite to women as a footnote. And don't get me started on the specifics of different types of swords and armor and how they are misused in film. Surprisingly, the movie, A Knight's Tale keeps pretty accurate, grounding the film in a particular decade (1350's) and has armor, weapons, architecture, people, events etc. mostly consistent to that era.
No need to shoehorn all that in. I mean I'm glad you've opened up to learning about the reality of the knight and medieval history, but you're coming on really strong and overdramatic, it's just a bit off. Cheers.
*Bret Terry* wow that much research for a movie that sees a crowd of peasants sing we are the champions? odd
You can't debunk everything in one video!
his arms look like they are uncomfortable being on his body
Wind Wanker
They are
Soy and self hate does that to a person.
I think he has a boner
I'm sure everything is uncomfortable being near his body
@@almightythor2674 yea he's not a real man. You're the real man it's obvious by the fact your handle in comic book character.
LOVE the reference to 'Humans'. Human behavior is kind of constant across the board.
Very true. We as humans "constantly" suck
Just a shame we such extremes at either end...
The real life Afro Samurai!😀😀
It's much more accurate than we thought!
Da Sam moo rhai
Are you saying Afro Samurai is historically inaccurate!? Good day sir! I said GOOD DAY!!!!
Didnt he exactly say Afro Samurai is accurate though? I mean, the characters there vary from soldier samurais, to pirate samurais, to aristocrat samurais and a black samurai (Yasuke).
@viprizy The whole point is about wether afro samurai is accurate or inaccurate, and given there was a black man that was a samurai in feudal Japan, it makes afro samurai accurate enough.
Your statement makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, and it is something extremely unique for a black man in feudal Japan to be part of japanese culture like that and specially as one of the most important characters of their history.
He didn't just wash up on a shore, he was a slave rescued by oda nobunaga with the intent to make Yasuke, oda's right arm.
You should do some more research about the guy and you will eventually be surprised to find out that this black samurai actually fought wars and led armies in one of the most important times for Japan.
I'm not black, but I respect Yasukes story, so feel free to rip your eyes off.
@viprizy "washed up on japan's shores..."... He was a bodyguard/personal assistant to a leading Christian missionary and he spoke four languages, but you were saying.....
are we not gonna talk about how everyone is just using "Afro" as a way to describe a whole race, like people, we aren't hairstyles.
@viprizy Dont hate 😂✔
Everyone knows that the black samurai was a time traveling baseball player.
Theycallmetomu nobunaga concerto :-D
i can mess up your referance by counter-referancing to
time traveling football players becoming knights
samurai champloo yassss
Is this a JoJo Reference? Get that reference? Referception
Michael Jordan was a time-traveller!?
I would actually pay to watch The Black Samurai if they make one
Same here
D RD it's called afro samurai
It's called "Ghost Dog" starring forrest whittaker.
D RD I’d watch it instantly.
Yasuke!!
"What makes you an expert on Japanese history?"
"Well, I eat a lot of Pocky, and I spend a big chunk of my time googling shit on Samurai."
N-Nani?
RealityBreaker Omae wa mou shindeiru
Nani!?
I love this comment so much
Interwoven LOUD SOUND EFFECTS
Soohka
Mouth magic has a totally different meaning in my book.
🙃
God bless
Giggety.
Um... Lol?
i really love this presenter, could talk with him for hours. fun and smart guy. bless him
*_All I know is their swords really aren't "Legendarily Strong"..._*
They are legendarily strong. Just not ACTUALLY strong (compared to other swords) If I recall the issue was that when they were knew, properly forged steel Katana were far better than the iron swords the japanese had been using.
"Strong" is probably the wrong word to use. It's really more a matter of having different philosophies on what makes a good sword. It depends on whether you are going for versatility or specialization.
Japanese swords have very hard edges and soft backs. The hard edges means they can be made extremely sharp, and they don't even notch the way other swords do - they actually chip, like glass. Meanwhile the backs will be more likely to bend rather than develop stress fractures and crack. So, while they will be more likely to take a set, they are also less likely to suffer sudden catastrophic breakage.
In the west, iron age and earlier medieval swords were actually made in a similar way though not quite to the same extremes. Once metallurgy and industrial production improved, focus shifted to more spring-like unisteel blades. These are more versatile and reliable in terms of structural attributes, but sacrifice the very sharp edges and particular aesthetic values of say a katana.
At any rate, it's true that Japanese swords were highly valued by just about every other culture that came in contact with them, since the Japanese - while very traditional - have never been a people who half-ass stuff.
I think it's not really right to classify them as swords at all. More like sabres to me.
Katanas were NOT primary combat weapons. Just as the European longswords, they were BACK UP weapons. Japanese Samurai and other warriors fought using: pikes, looong spears, bows, naginata, ie, pole arms. Katanas were more like status symbols. Only samurai were allowed to wear the Daisho (katana and dirk). And if you touched a samurai's Daisho, he was entitled to kill you on the spot. If you were lowly scum that is. If you were a high ranking noble, the samurai would have to kill himself afterwards.
You sir are correct
Everything I need to know about Samurai, I learned from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This video is unnecessary.
Uzzy66 Exactly, Kreiger...... or is it Uzzy66
Yes. Uzzy66 is Krieger. Krieger is Uzzy66.
Uzzy66 MIND IS BLOWN
I agree
you mean the main villian protagonist ? He doesn't even used sword, spear or bow
"I would buy a ticket to that thought"
That's what i did for suicide squad..
suicide squad was retarded
@@l.d.r6653 yes
69th like
Someone send it to Metatron.
Tyler Ladner ikr it's begging for a debunking
he's about to get shit on lmao just like he did with matpat
IDK, I think he may agree with lot of things.
Tyler Ladner Cracked might be upset by a white guy critiquing their video on Asia 🙃.
GarrusN7 The guy in the video is way whiter though, so he needs to double check his privilege.
"as early as the europeans did"
Almost. Cannons were introduced to the japanese by europeans, so obviously there has to be some delay.
Actually, cannons were introduced to Japan by China, a few centuries prior to that. Apparently they weren't that popular though, and only became widespread after the Portuguese brought theirs.
I know about the chinese guns, but I'm not aware of any evidence of use in Japan. Are you saying they did use chinese guns before the europeans came or is this just about my choice of the word "introduce"? :)
Yes, according to Wikipedia Japan used Chinese cannons before the Europeans arrived. Apparently as early as 127.
Ops, I meant 1270
That's on wikipedia? How did I not know that then, lol. But I'm always happy to learn new things. I guess they fell completely out of use by the time the Portuguese arrived though, because I'm pretty sure by that time there were no more left.
The real history of Samurai is waaaaaay cooler then the bs we’ve been fed all these years.
That's what happens when you don't watch anime like a crack addict.
Yeah. I meant, Samurai also mercenary and pirates?
Now that is a very cool thing to know.
You can remove "of samurai" and it remains a true statement too.
As someone who's actually studied Japanese culture and history I've been waiting for this video for a LONG time.
bronzedivision It really didn't have that much to say. I'm pretty sure most people (adults at least) understand there's a difference between their romanticized idea of samurai and reality. You could find all this information in about 5 minutes on a single Wikipedia page.
actually
Okay, this is the first time on this show where the helmet aspect is actually hilarious. I love most everything Alex does, but even if I didn't, this video is worth watching just to stare at how ridiculous his skinny ass looks in that helmet for 8 minutes. Lol.
Glad someone else is on the same page.
I love that line "humans!" Pretty much explains it all
I remember when this guy was New Guy. Ah how time has passed. I am so proud of him!
The RZA should direct a movie about the Black Samurai like his movie The Man With The Iron Fists.
Rza is actually making a Black Samurai show (I believe based on the Jim Kelly movie).
Edited to include link to article about the show. Didn't know the Kelly movie was based on a book, the more you know :)
www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/common-topline-starz-black-samurai-reboot-rza-jerry-bruckheimer-1031574
There is actually a movie about Yasuke in production by Lionsgate: deadline.com/2017/03/lionsgate-taps-highlander-creator-gregory-widen-to-script-film-on-first-black-samurai-1202049635/
JackgarPrime Thanks for the link!☺
Louis Bamberger Thanks for the link!😊
Damon Patterson There's an anime call Afro Samurai. The RZA does the soundtrack for the anime and Afro Samurai is voiced by Samuel L. Jackson.
"Humans" Words cannot describe how much I love this video!
The legendary number 1 headband promises power, omnipotence
Sibyl Nothing personal......
It's just revenge.......
This and "Some News" are my favourite cracked series.
What about "After Hours" and "Honest Ads"?
I really think "a news person" should win "an award".
Lego Insomniac Rodger Horton is God
Lego Insomniac after hours as well
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4:50 Actually, the idea of the soul existing in the abdomen is a common idea in Eastern philosophy.
In Japan, in is called Kyoku, in China; Dantien.
It's the spiritual reason why Qi-Gung breathing and Kiais are done from the abdomen.
The practical reasons are, because it's where the breathing muscles are located, and breathing this way maximizes expansion of the lungs.
Carry on.
The Last Samurai movie title is using the plural form of samurai, not singular.
Matthew Barcelo you mean English?
The Japanese language doesn't conjugate its nouns to a plural form for more than one of something. E.g. _Ippon no mizu, nihon no mizu_ for one bottle of water, two bottles of water.
Then again, English has a few nouns that behave like this as well: sheep, fish and moose.
JamesDavy2009 yes, you are completely correct, but my point was the title of it is in English, which threw many peoples off.
chainer8686 you just exploded my cerebral cortex, sir
Especially with its marketing as TOM CRUISE...THE LAST SAMURAI. "The Last of the Samurai" would've been a less confusing title but it doesn't sound as good as "The Last Samurai".
I live in japan, so I already knew all this. I actually own nitobe’s book 😂
Did you pay attention? The fucking book is innacurate as fuck. Damn Gaijins who thinks they are japanese
Wow, you're such a genius
Fred News I know that it’s innacurate but it’s to me an artifact of Japanese history and literature
Shanghai Qatar wtf actually no I’ve lived here since I was five years old and most people are actually very accepting and fascinated with other cultures, including my Scottish and Italian roots. Are all Americans ignorant and stupid like you? Because if so, count me out of my Alaska trip this summer.
Im from the UK btw. Strong assumptions. your initial post also inferred you come from the American perspective - as in you didnt grow up in Japan.
Ignorant of your own communication abillities.
Really enjoyed this video. I teach Japanese languae and was stoked to hear about the African samurai and the rest. I shared it with my classes. Awesome!
I get more history from here then the actual History Channel.
But what about the academic veracity and in-depth research of "Ancient Aliens" and "Pawn Stars"?!
They used pole arms instead of swords because that's way less dangerous? There's a guy who knows absolutely nothing about combat. And it doesn't sound like he even understands what war is.
They used pole arms because pole arms are cheaper and a row or two of them can prevent cavalry charges from being successful. Also, even peasants, slaves, and captured enemy soldiers could be equipped with relatively cheap pikes and shoved out in front. You're not going to have enough swords for them and if you did, you wouldn't give those weapons to them. Most samurai were not wealthy, either, nor were all their masters, and just like good armor, a sword was expensive. Some samurai even sold their swords in hard times, which were frequent in a country often embroiled in internal warfare. Further, the spear was a highly esteemed weapon, not thought of as second-rate.
Also, what about the book Hagakure by Yamamato Tsunetomu?
Also swords are ineffective against almost all armor
I think he meant wepons like a naginata when he said pole wepons. Naginata was a sort blade on a big pole which was supposed to keep sworded enemies further away because you had a longer reach. Thats why they were in most cases better than a sword because you wern't in the reach of getying stabbed before you had killed the enemy
Felix Brand well yari and it’s variants were the main weapons of both the samurai and the peasants. Mainly because it was cheap, and same reasons above. There is also the way warfare developed in Japan. It wasn’t from just pike warfare like in Europe. They used the yari to batter the enemy and their yari until the enemy was stuck on defense for their life, then samurai with omiyari would go in and try to eliminate them. (Not every clan, as they each developed their own style
wiki says he was he was a scribe, "According to Mark Ravina, 'Rather than an account of samurai tradition, this work [Hagakure] serves as an example of what the Japanese army thought Japanese soldiers should believe about samurai practice.'" (Ravina, 2015, Understanding Japan: A cultural history. Course Guidebook, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 94-95, cited by Wiki)
Polearms are your best friend in a war too. Lol. If you're fighting a dude with a sword and you have a polearm, you're gunna kill the idiot with the sword before he can even get within 2 feet of you to strike. Polearms are the way to go if you didn't want to die immediately back then. Japanese warriors perfected the polearm in many ways, and it's translates directly to any other hand held weapon you could get. Polearms literally were good against anything and like you said, they're fucking cheap to make compared to full tang swords that took hundreds of hours to properly craft and temper. Swords in almost every aspect are inferior to polearms in a fight. Most actual fighters in the wars of japan used bows and arrows and polearms. The sword is a last resort, and even the most rudimentary of samurai era combat writings say this. Hell even Miyamoto Musashi says this in the book of five rings. Reach and distance is everything, and if you have that advantage over your opponent, you're most likely going to win. That's why we use fucking sniper rifles to assassinate high value people and not assault rifles. You wanna stay as far away from getting yourself fucked up while fucking the opponent up as much as possible.
Not nearly enough of these history ones. Its nearly the best on youtube
i like this tiny mans words, speak more of them
It's true that not all samurai committed seppuku in certain cases. However, it was more common than you are making it out to be.
Common as a form of execution not voluntarily
Best part about seppuku was the poems samurai wrote before there death some where actually sweet and thought provoking but most where trash talking the people who got them in that situation
I remember one where a guy wrote basically a detailed description about how he took a rival samurai's daughter's virginity
So you have a room full of important people waiting for you to die and they are required to sit down and listen to how long you had sex with one of their daughters
@@almalone3282 Can you link that?, sounds interesting haha
@@lool2707 read it in a book form my downtown library 15 years ago I don't remember the name sadly
But it was a compilation of samurai poems and haikus
Not all poems are like that but that one stuck out to me the most
Al Malone Not suprised, when someone explains how they took a rival daughter’s virginity before committing seppukku is something i would always remember hahah.
"[A] stab to the tum-tum." AHAH, HILARIOUS! So good! Thanks for your hard work!
I love how they number the first couple Hilarious Helmet History, and then just gave up.
Ok first I really want to see that idea of a movie about Yasukai and second he really missed out on a perfect afro samuri reference.
Same here.
Growing up in Japan as a kid I got a very different picture of what a samurai was. I studied martial arts under a teacher who traced his linage back to the Kamakura Shoganate. The earliest samurai were primarily archers on the battlefield. The first Shoguns Minamoto, was said to have one arm longer than the other which gave him a stronger draw than normal supposedly. He was hailed a hero when he set fire to Mongolian invasion fleets and the emperor named him to the position of shogun. From then on it was decreed that any Shogun must be descendant of Minamoto. That is until the end of the Sengoku era when Tokugawa claimed the title by faking lineage to Minamoto. Toyatomi was given the title of Regnant due to the fact that he had no ties to Minamoto. The modern concept of bushido came about during the Tokugawa era in order for samurai nobles to maintain their perception of importance. Prior to that there really wasn't a code of honor like people like to believe. Even at the Battle of Sekigahara Tokugawa emerged victorious by making deals with other opposing Daimyo to change sides mid battle. There were other factors such as the weather, but convincing soldiers to turn traitor was the deciding factor. In terms of entertainment, the noble swordsmen known as samurai in fiction is more entertaining save for some of the more lively historical stories. Watching a movie about Minamoto shooting arrows at ships off the coast doesn't make for interesting fight choreography for a movie so we get the Kurosawa version from movies like Seven Samurai, Ran, and Throne of Blood. Of course samurai warriors began training from a young age and had a very complete curriculum that included archery, spearmenship, firearms, swordsmanship, horsback riding, mounted combat, battlefield strategy and tactics, poetry, flower arranging, and tea ceremony.
Makes fun of someone for not using sources, when there are no sources on this video
There's a number of issues with the way this video interpreted the value of "The Last Samurai" as a work.
1. Honor was a very big deal in late Medieval Japan, mostly due to the very problems that the narrator talked about. While seppuku was rare, it was also part and parcel of that reform that was meant to tie the samurai to the person they served. Yes, they were human, but there is a point where a culture (notice the word "cult" as the prefix) can often override rational self-interest through communal shame. It's sort of like the "women and children first" thing that started in the late 19th century naval tradition. We still popularly shame men who have the gall to put their own lives ahead of others, this too has put men in positions where they often sacrifice their own lives despite not wanting to. Bushido was actually a thing, though I agree it is often romanticized to a fault, much like the code of chivalry.
2. This idea of death before dishonor was meant to be juxtaposed with the experience of the reluctant American soldier. In a way Cruise's character represents the complex issues of war from the perspective of Christian society with ambitious conquest in mind. He is not the "white savior" or a "drunk guy detoxing" the dude has PTSD from immense guilt from living in society where everyone goes to church and talks about "thou shall not kill" whilst later celebrating the carnage committed against their enemy. The Samurai depicted in the film basically vindicate the position that a warrior must adopt a different set of philosophical principles to be at peace with themselves. If anything, Cruise's character is saved by the society that he embraces, not the other way around.
3. Yes, Samurai used gunpowder, however, they did not carry the symbolic value that traditional weapons such as the sword did. The movie was attempting to, again, juxtapose the invading Western culture with the old ways - and the sword was the instrument of honor. While it isn't historically accurate exactly, that was never the point: it was meant to starkly remind us that there was a societal sea change in Japan that could not be reversed - for better or worse.
Entire series is a mood
Is the Last Samurai still a "white savior" story if they all end up dead by the end? Not a lot of saving is my point.
David Stumpfl LOL
Yes, it surprisingly is. It's a story of "white savior" who failed.
YOU ONLY HAD ONE JOBBBBB.........
Dude you need to get a grip on your white guilt
Lalit Singh Rana
Seems more like it's a white guy who got integrated into the culture. Not everything is a white savior story.
@@LordVader1094 being integrated and being their savior is different. It's not like he was just some random white guy. In the movie he is literally there to save them. His whole point is to teach them how to fight. That without his knowledge they wouldn't stand a chance. I get the joke of he failed and it was a good one. However it's still a westerner(most of the time white)savior story. Just one in which he sucks at being a savior. I think the problem isn't 100% race. To me it's more the idea that westerners are these brilliant badass heroes. Who without the poor foreigners(mostly people of color)would never be able to do anything. I mean the movie stole the story of an actual guy but irl it was a French guy.
so basically all of kurosawa's movies were accurate
That history of japan video is a youtube gem !!
No link to the history of japan?
Being a book nerd and a lover of Feudal Japan. I've already learned a lot of this knowledge from the history books I've read on the Samurai. However, I often find the myth of a culture or a warrior type to be more inspiring than the actual figure.
I know that in mythology, the warriors are less...(looks at his note) oh, here's the word; "human." But these days; with the firearm becoming available to almost every man, woman and child out there. I feel that the mythical figures are more human than us.
Why? Because these figures understood the value of morality and fought for the greater good. Whereas in reality, it's all about power and survival of the fittest; which is utterly disgraceful
That sound nice... until you realize that this inspiring figure has been used to mass execute prisoners.
@@yeayea4744 Thing is, though; not EVERY human is all about being the alpha or wanting to do whatever it takes to survive.
I'm certainly not, my life isn't that important compared to that of others
@@sadlobster1 Your life is absolutely just as important as everyone else’s. At the end of the day we are all humans, regardless of status or whatever other factors there are. There is not a single person who is more important than anyone else; it might seem like it from a career standpoint as there are billionaires and millionaires, but at the end of the day, they are human as-well. And yea, survival of the fittest and being the “alpha” male is not important to the majority of society; but the same rules still apply to us, as it is who we are in nature. This is what competitiveness derives from, in every aspect of life not just strength. It could range from intelligence, to strength, to video games, to careers, it all still applies. The idea of “Alpha” is seen as someone who is big, bulky and brawn, but that is not all that it is. Regardless of whatever your passions are, strive to be the alpha in that, be the best, as there is no other reason to do so, and remember there is no one who is inherently more important than anyone.
@@yeayea4744 This may come as a surprise to you...but striving for the Alpha Mentality (to me) is a totally worthless pursuit.
There are far more important things to focus one's concerns than being the best or winning
The Obsidian Samurai movie would be awesome. He was depicted in the recent game Nioh, for the Playstation 4. It takes place in Japan during the Tokugawa ascention and the Obsidian Samurai is featured as one of the later bosses of the game. That is a story I bet many people would want to watch.
No actually they didnt "white wash" the deeds of Yasuke. The character portayed in the last samurai is based on a real person named Jules Brunet. And Sepuku... yeah it was a thing. Bushido also a thing... both are mentioned in many texts written by samurai over the centuries. People are human and not everyone conforms to the same ideologies even in other cultures. Just because you have some examples that some samurai did not act like a proper samurai doesnt mean that most didnt value those ideals.
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Guy must be on something man. Don't worry. Might be trying to re-write history with soy as well.
Fun fact that hot babe at the end was the same girl who played Katara in the shitty live action "The Last Airbender" movie. Damn she grew up.
LOL, that picture of that guy with the canon at 5:36 is epic.
The real thing is rarely ever anything like their glamorized counterparts.
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Oh you mean how that thousand years of everything that shares a name is different in western civilization too!!? You sir have blown my mind.
Just watch Rurouni Kenshin = 100% accuracy. :)
You're talking about an anime made from a shounen manga where some character fight empty handed against swords just by using punches and kicks and where a bunch of them are inspired by *Marvel Comics*. If you think Rurouni Kenshi accurately depicts Boshin war and Meiji restoration, you need to learn a bit about it.
Tenzo Hachizuka whose character is inspired by marvel?
Aldo Sirait Udo Jin-e is obviously inspired by Gambit the cajun x-man. Akamatsu Arundo is pretty much from marvel villain Omega Red. Yatsume Mumoi comes from Venom. And when it's not from Marvel, it's from Samurai Spirit or other beat'em-up. Even the author, Watsuki Nobuhiro admited these inspirations from existing comic or videogame characters.
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Had to feel pretty silly still running around in the 1800's with a sword. Of course there were Japanese still running around in the Phillipines fighting WW2 until the 1980's.
Even in WW1 a lot of people run around with swords. And I mean not only Persian, Indians, Vietnamese, and some other Asian countries, also Russians, Turks and European cavalry.
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The black samurai played by denzel Washington would be sick
I watched this to learn about wano arc before it starts
Let's see how act 3 will end
DISCLAIMER: I learned all of what I'm about to say from my roommate, I double checked accuracy but I'm not cool enough to have just known this. The way the Samurai fought was incredibly stupid. At first they were solders, but once we get to the time where they actually used katana most of the men never fought. The armies would line up, one guy, usually a well respected swordsman or nobleman, would break rank walk to the middle of the field where he'd meet the enemy Samurai. They would rule, usually to first blood occasionally to death, and thus the war was won. Now this works fine as long as everyone knows the rules. HOWEVER when someone has no idea how this is supposed to work you have the mongol invasion of japan. When the Mongols went to fight the Samurai the one samurai broke rank walked to the middle of the field and, as per tradition, began reciting his family lineage. Then the mongols charged the samurai was killed and the men behind him were so confused they put up almost no fight and all died. Every. Single. Time. Years later the mongols gave up on japan after a number of storms in the sea of japan made it stupid and expensive to keep taking large chunks of the island, Nobu Naga decided that the idea of having one man fight another man and getting no land in the end was dumb. So he decided to take this new invention he had gotten from either china or some traveling europeans (a can't be fucked to remember who) called guns. He gave them to farmers and peasants, killed samurai, who still didn't understand that standing alone listing your family line to your enemy was a bad idea. Nobu took over and samurai died out because they were bad at warfare on a scale larger than small scale land disputes between mildly powerful land owners. Thanks for reading this far hope it was educational.
Actually had no idea. This was very good to see.
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I just remembered their was a 1970's blaxplotation movie called Black Samurai with Jim Kelly.
Damon Patterson don't say that garbage movie here
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"Oh well, movies are dead, read a book. Byeeeeeee"
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I regret having watched this.
I hope I don't accidentally watch another of your videos.
0:56 paused the video and now I am going to leave
yep, it was cancer.
"How did Hollywood make that premise hard to watch? I'd buy a ticket to that thought" Great script!
Ah... So.
Oh shit! So that part about black Samurai in Nioh was actually true.
The black samurai was name yasuke
If you made shirts that said, "Movies are dead, read a book, byeeee" I'd buy one for all of my fellow library workers. All of them.
Not to start a Race War because thats all political talk ever devolves to these days.... but Tom Cruise's Character in "The Last Samurai" is based on a French Soldier named Jules Brunet who was hired by the Shogun government to help teach military tactics to their soldiers. After The Shogun government fell in the face of the reinstatement of Emperor Meiji, he fled with the rest of the Shogunate to command almost 50,000 men in The Republic of Ezo during the Civil War...... but yeah that one black guy is of way more historical significance and Hollywood's choice to base their character off of the extremely influential individual is totally racist and a conscious choice to oppress minorities.
Maurice Angly but it was Whitney's fault the black samurai was of lesser significance
nice sarcasm at the end lmao 10/10
Maurice Angly who said anything about racist? I take it from your comment that you read too much into things and problem cant stand black people... or am I reading too much into something? Both are historic figures, both deserve to be remembered... no?
Had the movie been about that French guy instead of Tom Cruise nobody would have complained.
Maurice Angly yeah but the samurai used wasn’t in the boshin war
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What? Where did it say that?
Oh baby, blow my soul!
I never saw Cruise's character as the "White Saviour" type. His character was a broken man, if anything, They saved Him.
Oh, and his character wasn't supposed to be considered the title's "last samurai"...not sure why people think that.
It was a fun video to watch, but I'm really getting sick of these "everything you knew about samurai is wrong!" kind of thing. People are simply going to the other extreme of the misconceptions.
Sure, the samurai were humans and more relatable than some used to think they were, but most of these so-called "myths" are actually true, especially when talking about samurai from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Just because there isn't a single rule for every case and every person, it doesn't mean everything is bullshit. Why do people feel the need to replace a generalization with another?
Anyway, the samurai who went to battle really did have an absurdly hard and lifelong training, not only in combat but in many fields of knowledge. They did follow a moral code, they really used to develop a strong sense of loyalty towards their masters and obligations, they did value their swords and weren't as fond of fire-weapons and they did commit seppuku in many situations without being forced to do so (although this happened as well).
When these "debunkers" mention that samurai were capable of betraying or fearing for their lives, it makes it seem like the samurai were almost the exact opposite of what the "myths" used to say. As if a samurai would betray his master or run from trouble the first chance he gets. I mean... "Human" is too broad of a category, you know?
I seriously doubt a lot of people nowadays think the samurai were supernatural soldiers. You should be more concerned with people thinking they were unrefined, "average-joes" of old Japan who happened to know a thing or two about fighting.
Andi CRIMSON And here we go again. I thank you for your reply, but please don't be like the guy in the video. Just because the definition of samurai isn't having a "job with ridiculously overcomplicated training" it doesn't mean it all depended on each family. I think it's a bit hard to understand this because it's so different from our society, but every social class had a very strong set of expectations they had to meet. And even today the Japanese society is known to have high levels of social pressure.
Sure, there were poorly educated samurai, but unless you're talking 13th century or earlier, it wasn't normal. It just wasn't the case of the average samurai.
Of course the samurai were a class. But it was a highly respected one. So in the majority of cases you would definitely need to have a good amount of training and education if you were a samurai. Even if you were from a minor family. EVEN if you were a "hostage" from a different family. Case and point being how young Matsudaira (Ieyasu) was treated in the house of Oda, which was far from being strong or influential at that time.
Fireweapons were a huge success in Sengoku Japan. Some accounts say that Japan may have had a total number of fireweapons greater than all of Europe, although I can't confirm it.
So you're absolutely right! Fireweapons were widely spread, yes. The daimyous couldn't ignore the utility that these weapons had.
Hooowever, the point is: a fireweapon have never, ever, got to the point of being as symbolic or as personally important as the swords. It could never be considered an equal. You didn't have ritualistic rifles, you didn't see stories or anyone talking about how their gun was blessed by a Shinto deity and showed them the way. You didn't have famous gun makers who were regarded as legends, etc.
Not to mention that conservative samurai complained about how the face of warfare had changed because of the fireweapons all the way through the Meiji era, even during the Edo period when fireweapon usage and presence decreased drastically for obvious reasons (especially considering how the Bushido evolved here).
Anyway, that's what I mean by "they weren't as fond of fireweapons", see. And that's also why I didn't say anything about the frequency of use or whatnot. Fireweapons just didn't carry a deeper meaning to the Japanese of old. They were just instruments of war that could facilitate their victories.
Sure, the swords and spears could be seen pragmatically as instruments of war as well, but they also carried this ritualistic and philosophical meaning alongside the perception of status, which varied a little depending on the period of time.
In the end, all I want to say is that there IS some truth in these so-called "myths" about the samurai. I just don't want people to turn the exceptions into the rule and simply think everything they knew was BS.
I'm not saying this is your case, but people are jumping into conclusions way too fast when they learn certain pieces of information. They learn the variables, but not the causality. And sources like this video aren't helping.
So, for example, something led you to think that, because firearms were widely used in old Japan, the statement about the Japanese not being as fond of said firearms was false. And probably, by extension, that this whole thing about swords being almost sacred to the samurai was wrong. Some other person may learn that the katana wasn't usually the weapon of choice during open-field battles and think the same thing (that swords weren't all that important to the samurai). You see what I'm saying?
Just because things didn't follow an exact romanticized stereotype we can't just default to our own understanding. The samurai were humans, but they were humans from a different age and from a different culture. Using our own process of thought and trying to fit it into the samurai or any other distant foreign society is definitely not the right way to understand this other culture.
MutekiHikaru you don't have ritualistic spears or bows 90% of the time either that isn't because they did not adore them they used them far more then swords as same with the nodachi although I count that among spears because they are still in the polearms family... them not idolizing the spears persay has absolutely nothing to do with their culture Ignoring it it had to do with the fact that the sword was so widely loved and for later periods in history was more a symbol then an actual weapon... seriously this argument is as ridiculous as saying Europe didn't like guns cause they didn't dub their knights with them
MutekiHikaru also spears... rarely carried weight in culture the sword was almost always what legend referred to and even less other weapons also spears existed in Japan WAY longer then spears
MutekiHikaru swords weren't sacred to samurai it's just that swords were a status symbol
Finally,I found soneone that's understand what is SAMURAI..I was starting to lose hope tho.
A woman has never been called a samurai. The samurai's wife, of course, learned self-defense, but to protect the family if her husband fell in battle.
I like your show. I wish you could cite your source materials so I can read and research more into the popular misconceptions
this guy is awesome idris elba in yasuke movie that would be sick!
Samurai's were a rock solid 4x4 built by Suzuki to compete with Jeep. I drive one daily
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"Movies are dead, read a book!"
more peeps should think this way.
You forgot to mention the tv miniseries, Shogun. By the Author James Clavell.
Did u watch the movie, an American soldier gets a job in Japan, make friends, friends die, lives to tell the tale, and you mock him as a savior.
He gets a job as a white saviour. In the movie the Japanese have no idea how guns work (obviously bullshit, because 16th century Japanese muskets), so Americans have to come and show them, with obsolete weaponry.
It was the 1870s, no one used muskets anymore, especially not Japan. They wanted to be modern and not 10 years behind.
What I'm getting at: The guy in the movie was hired to make the incredibly bumbling Japanese army less shit.
But you are right, he didn't save the samurai. Well it's their fault for leaving their armies and modern weapons behind. :D
Warpwaffel he was an expert in his field, with actual combat experience, most militaries (organization) bring in people for additional or specialized training. He did not seek out Japan to show them up, he was brought in as a Consulting.
Just watched the relevant scene. Ok, I have no idea what the hell he was supposed to be doing, but his methods are weird. What were we talking about? :)
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Are you talking about the last samurai?
THAT MOVIE IS FICTIONAL
YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SAMURAIS!
OCTAPUS 444 Was talking about about the role of the protagonist in the fictional movie, " the last samurai". What's your point?
Good news everyone! A movie about Yasuke is being made!
...hmm...I cannot disagree with anything he said...well done sir
Why did you have to make it political in the end? "Black Samurai > White Samurai"
Fighting racism with more racism, good job.
Poor baby. Poor white, ohhh so white, baby.
jeric_ synergy being black that’s still racist
I remember back when he was "THe New Guy" and EVERYONE fucking hated him... Now he has become one of the best parts about cracked. Love almost every video he's a part of.
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i love how there's no mention of Afro Samurai. like, at least a picture or something while he was saying we need a black Samurai in movies.
It’s funny how he is calling Tom Cruise’s character a “white savior” as he is white knighting 🤦🏻♂️
Someone tell me more about "Yazukay" if that's how it's spelled
It's spelled Yasuke.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
It is spelled Yasuke and pronounced Yahss-keh.
Do you mean Yakuza?
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why did you have toturn the video into a white bashing one..... personally i would love to see a movie based on this black samurai but there's nothing wrong with fiction