…all seen the samurai trilogy? Anybody seen that? It stars Toshiro Mifune as probably the greatest Japanese Swordsman, a man named Miyamoto Musashi and Musashi was fascinating because he was a sort of Leonardo Da Vinci of samurai. He wrote poetry, he wrote…

…samurai trilogy? Anybody seen that? It stars Toshiro Mifune as probably the greatest Japanese Swordsman, a man named Miyamoto Musashi and Musashi was fascinating because he was a sort of Leonardo Da Vinci of samurai. He wrote poetry, he wrote philosophy, he…

…out into the world and participate in the 19th and 20th century world. And we're still paying the price for that. So anyway, but Musashi, he was so good this guy that there's one scene where he's in an inn and he's eating rice and there are flies in…

…not taught how to fight by a monk but his whole philosophy comes from this monk. And the monk starts his teaching by trapping Musashi and hauling him up with a rope around his waist hauling him up to the top of a tree and just leaving him dangling…

…his waist hauling him up to the top of a tree and just leaving him dangling there for a couple of days until he finally promises. Musashi at this point is kind of a wild man and the monk sort of tames him and says: all right if I let you down and…

…simply wandered around the country competing with one another because there wasn't anything else for them to do. And so when finally, when Musashi and Sasaki you know that by the third movie these movies you can watch them all in one night and I have…

…he just keels over because something that happened so fast that you can't even see it has happened and Sasaki is defeated and Musashi gets into this boat and he's rowed across by this by this old, naturally a philosophical old boatman you know and he's…