{"id":2297,"date":"2008-05-24T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2008-05-24T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T14:00:45","slug":"toshiro-mifune-japanese-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"Toshiro Mifune: Japanese Duke?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been a Mifune fan, and though I barely speak enough Japanese to be polite, I love the culture. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spoken of this before- the japanese were once a feared and hated enemy of the United States, and an island nation barely the size of Montana managed to terrorize our entire country. And we defeated them, using horrible tools. And we learned they have a fascinating and complex culture, in many ways radically different from our own, but in many ways strikingly similar. The Japanese seem to value strength, and honor, and decency, and respect for Religion, similarly to Americans. <\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s the impression I get based on their cinema. I&#8217;ve just finished watching &#8220;Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji temple&#8221; one of, arguably, Mifune&#8217;s best films. In it he&#8217;s a samurai posessed of mythical strength and ability, who is haunted by his desire to posess a true samurai soul, delicate and sensitive. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Samurai&#8221; trilogy is incredible, and I hope, someday, to be able to watch it without subtitles. <\/p>\n<p>Mifune died in 1997. A great man with an incredible legacy.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been a Mifune fan, and though I barely speak enough Japanese to be polite, I love the culture. I&#8217;ve spoken of this before- the japanese were once a feared and hated enemy of the United States, and an island nation barely the size of Montana managed to terrorize our entire country. And we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}