MUSASHI - THE DREAM OF THE LAST SAMURAI to premiere at Waterloo Festival

**Aeoran** · 6th November 2009, 04:03 AM

The 2009 Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada will be featuring a powerful lineup including the premiere of the critically-acclaimed 2009 anime film MUSASHI - THE DREAM OF THE LAST SAMURAI, from Mamoru Oshii (Ghost In The Shell) and the fantastic anime studio Production I.G.

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645) was a Japanese master swordsman who developed the niten-ichi ryu technique, and forged the idea of bushido. He fought countless battles during the traumatic years of the Tokugawa-Toyotomi conflict, which marked the course of Japanese history. In his final years, he would write his masterpiece on military strategy, The Book of Five Rings.

Other premieres and notables include the premiere of Studio Khara's REBUILD OF EVANGELION 2.0: YOU SHALL (NOT) ADVANCE and Studio 4C's FIRST SQUAD - THE MOMENT OF TRUTH, as well as other incredible films from all around the world.

The Festival runs Nov. 19-22, 2009. Full details and ticketing are at http://www.wfac.ca.

**pgsmith** · 6th November 2009, 06:59 AM

Hey Scott, you should try to make it. You might actually learn something about Musashi!

**Neil Gendzwill** · 6th November 2009, 07:09 AM

Musashi was single-handedly responsible for bushido? Cool beans!

I'm guessing "countless battles" if you can't count to 60 or so...

**Bokushingu** · 6th November 2009, 08:22 AM

just a few weeks ago I watched those three movies about him. they were really good. About how accurate were the movies?

**b8amack** · 6th November 2009, 12:14 PM

I thought he barely fought in any battles. Mostly duels... and even many of those are suspect.

**ScottUK** · 6th November 2009, 08:47 PM

He fought in a number of major campaigns.

Please supply details of suspect duels, Mr Time Traveller...

Originally Posted by pgsmith

Hey Scott, you should try to make it. You might actually learn something about Musashi!

Hehe go away.

**willszenith** · 6th November 2009, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by b8amack

I thought he barely fought in any battles. Mostly duels... and even many of those are suspect.

Yeah the winter and summer campaigns in Osaka , yup they barely battles eh?

please list the barely fought battles?

**ScottUK** · 6th November 2009, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by willszenith

please list the barely fought battles?

Sekigahara was a pissy little fracas.

Just Tokugawa, Musashi and a handful of others having a bit of a Queensbury Rules melee in the park, between the swings and the roundabout.

**willszenith** · 6th November 2009, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by ScottUK

Sekigahara was a pissy little fracas.

Just Tokugawa, Musashi and a handful of others having a bit of a Queensbury Rules melee in the park, between the swings and the roundabout.

yup, and he was supposed to be at the shimabara revolt, which turns out to be some kid who kicked his football over the neighbours fence, and the neighbour wouldnt give it back...

yup barely battles up there with waterloo, when napoleon played mahjong with wellington before tea...

**ScottUK** · 6th November 2009, 10:15 PM

...whereas Hitler should have played more Risk.

**ender84567** · 6th November 2009, 11:21 PM

without even looking at the youtube i think I can safetly say 'oooh its a bit cold'

**b8amack** · 6th November 2009, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by ScottUK

Please supply details of suspect duels, Mr Time Traveller...

Hehe go away.

Because I implied that I was a time traveller....

So, you're saying there isn't doubt about the details of his duels? Interesting. I'm not trying to pass myself off as a Musashi scholar, and so may well be wrong, but I was under the impression that the ambush where he defeated the Yoshioka school... that it had become a certain amount of truth wrapped in the whole cloth of legend over the years. Since you are such a stickler for facts, please point me to the indisputable evidence of exactly what happened.

Likewise there's his supposed defeat (referenced in that Warriors tv show, most recently that I've seen) by the jo fighter, whose name I could google, but why deny a keener the chance to bust it out later? Did it happen? I don't know. I just know that there are people who dispute that it happened.

I would consider these issues alone enough to warrant my earlier comment about his duels being suspect.

Originally Posted by willszenith

Yeah the winter and summer campaigns in Osaka , yup they barely battles eh?

please list the barely fought battles?

I said, and I quote "I thought"... before you do a fanboy attack on me, what part of that sentence

A) Implies that I am an expert, or without doubt about the way things unfolded?

B) Implies that he "barely fought" in the battles he did take part in, or that those battles "barely" qualify as battles? I was responding to the "countless" battles claimed. I thought he really didn't fight in that many, compared to some. Certainly could be wrong.

**ScottUK** · 6th November 2009, 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by b8amack

So, you're saying there isn't doubt about the details of his duels?

No, I am requesting you tell me which duels (of which there are apparently many) you consider suspect - and why...

**willszenith** · 6th November 2009, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by b8amack

Because I implied that I was a time traveller....

So, you're saying there isn't doubt about the details of his duels? Interesting. I'm not trying to pass myself off as a Musashi scholar, and so may well be wrong, but I was under the impression that the ambush where he defeated the Yoshioka school... that it had become a certain amount of truth wrapped in the whole cloth of legend over the years. Since you are such a stickler for facts, please point me to the indisputable evidence of exactly what happened.

Likewise there's his supposed defeat (referenced in that Warriors tv show, most recently that I've seen) by the jo fighter, whose name I could google, but why deny a keener the chance to bust it out later? Did it happen? I don't know. I just know that there are people who dispute that it happened.

I would consider these issues alone enough to warrant my earlier comment about his duels being suspect.

I said, and I quote "I thought"... before you do a fanboy attack on me, what part of that sentence

A) Implies that I am an expert, or without doubt about the way things unfolded?

B) Implies that he "barely fought" in the battles he did take part in, or that those battles "barely" qualify as battles? I was responding to the "countless" battles claimed. I thought he really didn't fight in that many, compared to some. Certainly could be wrong.

Im no fan boy of musashi, there is far to much myth around him , and all sorts of stories to wade through before any sort of truth reveals itself.

But you were simply corrected if you want to get pissy , thats your choice.

but you are right in one respect he didnt fight in that many battles it certainly wasnt double figures, but the battles he did he played an active role and they were huge battles in terms of size.

I recently did a talk on Ishida Mitsunari for museum research, and the japanese student before me did a seminar on understanding the myths of musashi, and all he drew was its fact, covered in myth ,sugared in legend.

Lets agree to disagree, and a budo nod of respect to each other ok?