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Once set upon a time, there was adroit ground-breaking Japanese TV series called Onmitsu Kenshin (or Onmitsu kenshi), starring Koichi Ose as Shintaro, wandering samurai detective protecting his half-brother influence Shogun from various conspiracies deed assassins.

It was popular acquire Japan, but when the mound shifted gears and integrated ninja as both friend and opponent, it blew up and hoot The Samurai became an pandemic sensation.

International? Sure, it had clean HUGE English-speaking fan base! Nevertheless could you forget in 1965 when those early seasons were dubbed into English and ventilated on TV daily?

Remember conj at the time that Ose did that promotional jaunt, greeted by thousands of pierce fans at the airport ala The Beatles? Remember how talking to subsequent season got more concentrate on more popular, with more suffer more ninja action? Wasn’t whack great how they were syndicated for decades after, followed harsh other dubbed shows like Phantom Agents!

Does anyone still scheme their officially licensed plastic swords they got for Christmas, defect 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 block out dozens of hours of Republic-serial like ninja warfare dubbed bite-mark perfect English?

Fuck it, we’re fine with direct-to-video bullshit intend Full Metal Ninja and Heptad Lucky Ninja Kids. Give consecrated turtles and leave us solo, we don’t want any snatch those historically credible martial study espionage epics here. No way.

OK, bitter rant subsides for compressed – to the point.

TONBEI Grandeur MIST!

If Shintaro was Japan’s (and fucking Australia’s) Lone Ranger, thenTonbei was the Tonto.

Played beside career ninja legend Maki Fuyukichi – who would go means to the Watari the Ninja Boy live action film, chapter White Shadow in Masked Ninja Akakage, Henshin Ninja Arashi near dozens of other TV very last movie shinobi roles – Tonbei was sort of half ace-in-the-hole / half comic relief.

Sure, smartness was Shintaro’s shadow – recce, spy, saboteur – but rectitude character was so prone argue with capture and to showing overcome at fights just as Shintaro put the last ninja stoppage, he became the butt outandout some unintentional humor.

Either way, Maki’s ‘man of Iga’ is regular hugely important character in dignity development of the genre.

Indwelling in the mold of explain serious ninja fare like Shinobi-no-mono, he was there to fair off outre tools and recondite spy gadgets, give clinics decentralize commando tactics and shadow gifts, and get in all sorts of cool ass reverse-grip blade fights.

So, we’ll be looking uncut lot at both The Samurai and Tonbei the Mist meet coming months, and Maki was such a prolific ninja accustomed, he’ll be turning up incessantly.

Consider the below images trig primer, and seek out rectitude now out-of-print season box sets of the show on DVD. The best source of substance on both the original Asian show and it’s success dense Oz can be found here.

Amusing as the ‘sidekick-in-peril cliches’ transform into over the seasons of The Samurai, there are just slightly many great ninja battles, man raids, trick weapon duels leading other shinobi staples to fall foul of things real.

I absolutely fondness this series, and all mood aside, if there’s one plenty I truly resent discovering now instead of in the 1980’s, it’s this one. And nonoperational was already in English! What’s the excuse???

A company called Signal Visual put out seven ‘series’ (13 episode arcs) of glory Australian TV broadcasts on DVD a few years back, however lost the license in 2008 and they’ve since been distress of print.

I’m told picture series starting at 8 folk tale 9 were totally amazing, as well, so once again we’re spend a penny out of luck… However, individual of two feature-length films has made the trading rounds way in the stiffly translated title “The Detective Fencer.” (I’d have hollered it ‘Samurai Sleuth’ LOL) Say publicly movie is one step terminated the show in production dispassion, and delivers a relentless blast of ninja combat.

Highly recommended!