Yasuke The Black Samurai Movie In The Works – Diversity Comes To Feudal Japan
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33 Comments
Just don't do a Afro Samurai.
I share your skepticism and am wary of Hollywood and its agendas but there are different accounts on yasuke story and you just can't rely on Wikipedia, which has a sketchy history with facts, to rule out most of his story. We might never no whether he was just a retainer or granted samurai status but his story, if done right is can be interesting.
https://youtu.be/0RZaHgXEhJ4?si=Y5YkY6MflyF2QWkv
He was more like a Ashigaru than a Samurai.
These people love trying to rewrite history.
so does this black samuri use a machete rather than a katana ?
Isn’t William Adams the 1st foreign samurai?
Samurai class was very exclusive.
Being a swordsman, even a really good one, still wouldn't make you a samurai.
Isn't this "cultural appropriation"? 😆
Really??? Garbage concept 😠 😡 😤
Dude,
Stop click baiting!!! I have been living in Japan for over 6 years. This is not something new. A movie about Yasuke that was supposed to star Chadwick Boseman was in development while he was alive.
Hollywood rarely makes historically accurate films. They are always embellished. Why would you think this would be different. They are making a push now to jump on the popularity of Shogun.
The main people whining are white males. The average Japanese person couldn’t care less. For them, it’s just another "Hollywood" movie that fetishizes them and uses them as a backdrop for the main (Western) protagonist. Shogun is the exception, not the rule. Do you want to see a Japanese Samurai movie? Then watch a Japanese movie and not a Hollywood-produced movie.
In regards to diversity, how about a movie about Queen Amanirenas of the Kush Empire, who was a contemporary of Cleopatra. She fought the Romans and did something Cleopatra could not do, battle the Romans and sue for peace favorable to her kingdom. A movie about her has been in development hell for over a decade. Meanwhile, “The Woman King” a project pitched and executive produced by a white lesbian gets green-lit and made.
My man oda nobunaga loved guns and hanging out with black people,a true american at heart!🫡🇺🇸
H, more Shogun reviews please!
I'm Japanese. I don't want some foreigners to use Japanese history or culture to overcome the inferiority complex of black people by making up some black savior fantasy. Black ppl should focus on their root history and culture in Africa or America. Yasuke was a slave or servant brought to Oda Nobunaga in 1581. We don't even know his real name. Yasuke didn't have any influence on Japanese history nor culture nor civilization. The record tells that he was tall and physically strong. That is it. During this era, Samurai could use official surname while Yasuke didnt even have any surname. (Peasants had surname though couldn't use it officially.) Oda Nobunaga met Yasuke in Mar-Apr 1581 and died in June 1582. So Yasuke was with Oda Nobunaka for like a year. Akechi Mitsuhide who killed Oda Nobunaga returned Yasuke to the Portuguese without killing him. The historians in Japan assumed that Yasuke left Japan with the Portuguese. So only ONE year being with Oda Nobunaga is NOTHING. Not comparable with William Adams who brought the world information and some western technologies.
Morgan Freeman looks like Takashi Shimura. How many times have I heard that when people are watching "Seven Samurai" for the very first time (actually, there is a certain resemblance).
Oh it should be based on facts like white Jesus movies right? Or every army film ever made right? 😂😂😂😂 YT people hate the fact they can’t be as great as BLACK PEOPLE som much‼️‼️‼️😂😂😂😂😂 #NextTimeWhiteBoys
The word Samurai, means "to serve", and a Samurai he was. Some japanese Youtubers and/or Historians talked about him. But you know better, right?
his skin colour might be black but surely his culture would be edo japan not american ganster black
Wasn't there an anime that was released last year based on the same subject?
Oh wow finally, ok well it's happening. Hopefully it'll bring equal terms for all sides now.
I sense another flop coming. 😂😂
So you don’t consider the white guy from Shogun bringing diversity to Feudal Japan? Both stories are based on true events correct?
Alt-right homosexual is mad there was a black samurai but probably loves "Shogun"
I dont lnow why you guys are all worked up over this
New Movie Idea, The incredible adventures of the Asian Viking from Madagascar, in search of the far shores of Argentina, plot twist, they put a chicken and made it lame, and made it gay
Yeah and Tom cruise became a Samurai in 2 days
I thought they already did a black samurai movie.."sho nuff" with Bruce Leroy? I think it was called the last dragon…😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
he wasnt one from what i know.. at best probably oda's sandal bearer
Yasuke. He is a samurai porter. He is not a samurai
🇯🇵 from japan
Yasuke is almost unknown in Japan.
Yasuke is a black man that Nobunaga, who loves rare things, keeps as a pet out of curiosity.There are no stories in Japan about his heroic exploits.If Yasuke were to be made into a movie, most of the episodes would have to be created.If we were to make a movie based on his records, there wouldn't be any interesting episodes.
So, after all the made-up BS Hollywood did for Blackthorne's story in Shogun, all of a sudden historical accuracy matters now that they're doing Yaskue's story? It's being disputed whether or not the guy was an actual samurai/bodyguard for Oda, with each side wanting to be right. I think we ALL know which side the anti-black crowds choose.
I bet your ass they said oh lets make this because of shoguns succes lol
I will say when doing a subject based around history you do need to try and keep it in some historic text for the audience. Why crazy from a visual standpoint 300 does take very creative liberties with the historic events but does it in a way that is believable. I say believable because the narrator of the story is a Greek solider who is even told by the greek king, "you have a grand tale to tell" so the so our narrator does just that he exaggerates many elements of the event while still keeping what was going on true. The Greeks were using superior tech and tactics to beat the Persians but obviously the Persions weren't monsters king Xercuse wasn't a giant. But 300 tells an entertaining story that even historians can go yeah that's the way ancient Greeks would tell the story. The same is true with Vikings many of those events are based off the Viking sagas which aren't historical accurate but many figures like Ragnar Lothbrok historians agree existed because they know for a fact his children like Bern Ironside and Ivar the Boneless lived because there are records of their military campaigns but historians aren't sure why they had their nicknames. The same is true about The Great Heathen Army as there is historic and archaeological evidence a great army from Scandinavia came to Great Britain around the same time they just aren't sure of how big it truly was because after the first couple of major battles the army separated and set up in other parts if the country. End of the day this film has a big task ahead of itself to try and get a story that studios will like but that audiences will want to see.
As a Japanese, it's safe to say that almost all Japanese people know that Yasuke was not a samurai.