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Imaginary Worlds

The Legend of Musashi

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

An entire subgenre of samurai films, shows, manga, anime and games can be traced back to one person – a real life samurai named Miyamoto Musashi. He was not the first samurai to achieve fame, but his remarkable career of undefeated duals, and his unconventional style of fighting cemented Musashi’s legacy in the popular imagination for centuries. Chie Kutsuwada and Sean Michael Wilson discuss their manga adaptation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings. Yale professor Aaron Gerow, and Darren Ashmore and Will Reed from iCLA explain why Musashi’s life story had a character arc that was irresistible to storytellers. And Stephanie Billman and I connect the dots from Musashi samurai tales to Westerns, Westworld, and Star Wars. This episode is sponsored by Skillshare and BetterHelp. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you’re interested in advertising on Imaginary Worlds, you can contact them here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Imaginary Worlds.

0:02.3

I show up at how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief.

0:06.1

I'm Eric Mollinsky and joining me is my producer, Stephanie Billman.

0:10.1

Hi.

0:11.1

Hi.

0:12.1

So you had an interesting experience recently where like you often end up watching movies

0:16.2

with your husband Rick and he's often watching movies that you're not that into and then

0:20.1

he kind of gets sucked into it and he was watching a samurai movie from last year and there

0:24.9

was something about it that really fascinated you.

0:26.8

So tell me what that was.

0:28.9

So the movie ended up being called, it's crazy samurai 400 versus one and the whole

0:36.4

stick about the movie is it's kind of the way that it's edited.

0:40.0

It looks like it's all one long take and it's you know the sword fight with this one

0:44.9

guy taking on what looks like basically 400 men.

0:48.9

But I wasn't really paying attention like right at the beginning but like at one point

0:54.7

out of the corner of my eye I look up and this dude this man just kills a kid and I kind

1:04.3

of look over at Rick to see if there's any any reaction from him and there's none and

1:09.6

I was like excuse me.

1:11.5

Did he just kill a kid and he's like no it's mousashi he's a good guy it's fine.

1:16.2

So I was intrigued as to why my normally saying husband seemed to find with what looked

1:22.7

like child murdered me.

1:24.9

So that's when I was like okay let me look up what the hell mousashi means and that's

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