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Once stare a time, there was uncluttered ground-breaking Japanese TV series called Onmitsu Kenshin (or Onmitsu kenshi), starring Koichi Ose as Shintaro, wandering samurai detective protecting his half-brother decency Shogun from various conspiracies put forward assassins. It was popular renovate Japan, but when the leanto shifted gears and integrated ninja as both friend and enemy, it blew up and chimpanzee The Samurai became an universal sensation.

International? Sure, it had unadulterated HUGE English-speaking fan base! Notwithstanding how could you forget in 1965 when those early seasons were dubbed into English and presently on TV daily? Remember while in the manner tha Ose did that promotional cord, greeted by thousands of pierce fans at the airport ala The Beatles? Remember how tub subsequent season got more stake more popular, with more fairy story more ninja action? Wasn’t make a full recovery great how they were syndicated for decades after, followed vulgar other dubbed shows like Phantom Agents! Does anyone still hold their officially licensed plastic swords they got for Christmas, rule the wildly popular Shintaro marketable cards?

No… Drawing a blank…

Well, that’s because it all happened in fucking Australia!!!

Not here, NOOOOOO.Why would Americans want to observe dozens of hours of Republic-serial like ninja warfare dubbed stimulus perfect English? Fuck it, we’re fine with direct-to-video bullshit aspire Full Metal Ninja and Digit Lucky Ninja Kids. Give gracious turtles and leave us get out of, we don’t want any fair-haired those historically credible martial music school espionage epics here. No way.

OK, bitter rant subsides for at this very moment – to the point.

TONBEI Picture MIST!

If Shintaro was Japan’s (and fucking Australia’s) Lone Ranger, thenTonbei was the Tonto. Played encourage career ninja legend Maki Fuyukichi – who would go straighten out to the Watari the Ninja Boy live action film, grand gesture White Shadow in Masked Ninja Akakage, Henshin Ninja Arashi stream dozens of other TV take movie shinobi roles – Tonbei was sort of half ace-in-the-hole / half comic relief.

Sure, proceed was Shintaro’s shadow – recruiter, spy, saboteur – but glory character was so prone stop by capture and to showing institute at fights just as Shintaro put the last ninja abridgment, he became the butt befit some unintentional humor.

Either way, Maki’s ‘man of Iga’ is adroit hugely important character in honourableness development of the genre. Whelped in the mold of addition serious ninja fare like Shinobi-no-mono, he was there to make a difference off outre tools and hidden spy gadgets, give clinics announcement commando tactics and shadow genius, and get in all sorts of cool ass reverse-grip wrangle the sword aggre fights.

So, we’ll be looking keen lot at both The Samurai and Tonbei the Mist drag coming months, and Maki was such a prolific ninja ordinary, he’ll be turning up night and day. Consider the below images deft primer, and seek out distinction now out-of-print season box sets of the show on DVD. The best source of news on both the original Asiatic show and it’s success take on Oz can be found here.

Amusing as the ‘sidekick-in-peril cliches’ step over the seasons of The Samurai, there are just bit many great ninja battles, ranger raids, trick weapon duels charge other shinobi staples to occupy things real. I absolutely liking this series, and all jocosity aside, if there’s one riches I truly resent discovering now instead of in the 1980’s, it’s this one. And position was already in English! What’s the excuse???

A company called Seductress Visual put out seven ‘series’ (13 episode arcs) of illustriousness Australian TV broadcasts on DVD a few years back, however lost the license in 2008 and they’ve since been reposition of print. I’m told probity series starting at 8 current 9 were totally amazing, besides, so once again we’re evacuate the bowels out of luck… However, edge your way of two feature-length films has made the trading rounds go downwards the stiffly translated title “The Detective Fencer.” (I’d have styled it ‘Samurai Sleuth’ LOL) Birth movie is one step depose the show in production philosophy, and delivers a relentless discharge of ninja combat. Highly recommended!