The shadow on the screen: ninja movie
Why movies about Japanese assassins so different from reality.
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As a rule, in the West film you can not find almost any picture of Japanese professional killers, which could not be attributed to the films in the category B or even Z. However, films about ninjas in his time have become a real phenomenon. At the request of samizdat Sergey Zhdanov has studied two parallel phenomena: the history of the ancient craft of Japanese fashion and its reflection on the big screen. Happened at the same time guide to the most badass fighters, historic research and instructions on how to become an assassin. Use.
As for ninja, they say that they come from the provinces of IgA and Koga and freely penetrate into enemy cities under cloak of secrecy. They keep the secret and are known only under pseudonyms. In the Western States (i.e. in China) they are called saisaku. As strategists call them, kagemono-Hickey.The first mention of the ninja Dating from the middle of the XV century
In Japan, the “warriors of the night” often called shinobi, but we all know them under the name of ninja. The character “Jia” means “man” and “NIN” can be translated as “patient”, “who can wait.” Also “NIN” can mean “to serve” or “to serve”: ninja were mercenaries, whose services are generally well paid. Their art of ninjutsu means “the art of being patient”.
History ninja is inextricably linked with the history of samurai and civil wars in Japan. First, the ranks of the ninja were often added to ronin — impoverished samurai who lost his master, which, although not studied ninjutsu from an early age, but was still excellent warriors. Secondly, the samurai were the main customers of the ninja, who paid them for murder and spying on other samurai. In XV—XVI centuries in Japan raged a civil war, and the ninja specialized in the storming of castles and gathering intelligence.
Not all ninja were trained to kill effectively, but almost all of them were able to climb the steep wall, knew a lot about engineering and were masters of disguise.
Many major generals contain in themselves the whole units of the ninja is for data collection on opponents. When the basic redistribution of territory and power ended, Japan began a covert struggle for titles, ranks and privileges, and then the ninja began to be appreciated as hired killers who could without noise and dust to remove a competitor, their customers, often with poison.
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Ninja techniques
The people of the shinobi was considered a “night spirits” and “demons in the flesh,” although for all their abilities often stood engineering. “Fly” they are using the gliders, the water went using a special wooden pots, wall “jumped” with the help of special climbing equipment.
Ninja were called mages that can heal and kill people at a distance with spells, though they were advanced for their time pharmacists.
Ninja medication and means to improve vision, hearing and other abilities. Even more sophisticated was their experiments with poisons: they could make poison, not only with poisonous frogs, snakes, spiders, fish, Scorpions, but also harmless peaches and plums.
But direct clashes of samurai troops with the forces of the ninja almost always ended in failure for a ninja. The samurai were much more experienced fighters participating in wars, their armor and expensive long swords were designed for battle in the open field, face to face with his opponent.
Ninja were trained on short and quick guerrilla attack, their main weapon was the element of surprise, and short swords intended for effective use in small enclosed spaces, where a long sword is impossible, even swing. Samurai sword easily broke the blade of the ninja, and duel face to face, the ninja was able to save is that a trick or an accident.
Ninjas differed from samurai even in matters of morality: they were unscrupulous mercenaries and efficient warriors who are not going to die with honor, as did the samurai, not competed with other fighters, and the purpose is reached by all possible means, and tried to survive.
When one day, a ninja by the name of Juzo grabbed and brought to the military commander, he begged that the permission to die honorably by committing seppuku. Juzo allowed to do it. When he ripped open his stomach, his body thrown into a pit under the castle, but after a while his spirit returned and began to haunt the nobleman.
It turned out that kimono, Juzo was hidden the carcass of a large rat, whose blood poured on the floor during seppuku, and Juza just very skillfully and patiently pretended to be a corpse.
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Patience ninja
Patience — a key concept in everything that is associated with the ninja. The ninja had hours and sometimes days to wait for an opportune moment to attack its prey.
One of the most colorful stories tells of a dwarf ninja, who spent several days in a cesspool of a senior official, armed with a snorkel and a spear, and waited for the Prince to sit down at a push, one blow killed the officer and fled into the night.
The ninja were accustomed to eat small amount of food, and particularly long ambush prepared a special nutrient pills, a small and very nutritious.
Another manifestation of the patience of a ninja was a tactic called “Atacama-no-Jutsu” — “art to lie still and show no signs of life.” To the samurai it was important even then, which side will see their corpses on the battlefield (only in the direction of the enemy camp in order to avoid the shame!). But more practical ninja were able to portray the dead with broken limbs or with a broken neck, so that the enemy took them for dead and without fear approached him. Then they jumped up and caused a nasty fatal blow. Often used tactic is the “trap of living bodies”, when the entire group of ninja in the clothes of ordinary soldiers were left behind by the retreating army when the pursuers had entered into the following fields of the dead, they suddenly jumped up and fired at the pursuers from the guns hidden under their dead bodies.
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