Hi all, just wanted to explain that you may have seen this documentary pop up a couple of weeks ago. It was flagged for inappropriate verbal content - but we thought this doc was just too good to go, so we have removed the offending scene. Hope you enjoy!

@TheAshCooper

27 күн бұрын

The offending scene is the best bit

@atlanta9286

27 күн бұрын

What offending scene? 🤔

@TheSound0fLegends

27 күн бұрын

Surely removing the scene is for want of a better explanation censoring history?

@trentweston8306

27 күн бұрын

A history channel approves of censoring the past.

@ds698

27 күн бұрын

I have heard it was really good, when I get Netflix again I will definitely watch it! Besides my own heritage I’m super interested in Japanese and Asian history. Actually I’m massively interested in all ancient history.

The graves of the 47 ronin at Sengakuji are near my house, so every now and then we walk over and pay them a visit. The most surprising aspect is the wide range of ages of the men (which are written on their tombs). They are as young as 16 but also there are ones in their 70s.

I like how the first 20 seconds are filled with historical inaccuracies and lies. Doesn't bode well for the rest of the show.

@TheAlwaysPrepared

19 күн бұрын

I got to 0:28 before the cringe overwhelmed me 😄

@78tag

16 күн бұрын

Yes, I immediately started to think about who backed this production.

@shtf-un6nn

14 күн бұрын

couldn't agree more, this misrepresentation of Japanese society is an abomination

When the bloke in the first minute said:'it almost feels it's alive...', I realized it's going to be a fanboy documentary.

I’m kind of dissapointed with the way the samurai are described in this. They weren’t all obsessed with death, nor was killing their only skill. They were just as focused on life as they were anything else. The way of the warrior wasn’t created to end life, it was created to foster it. Peace through military rigidity. They spent just as much time on the esoteric and philosophical arts as they did combat. They weren’t just mere warriors created to kill. Other than that this is a really great vid. You definitely need to do a bit more research on who the samurai were, and look at someone like Tomoé Gozen for example. As accomplished as she was martially, she was just as focused on the spiritual side of things as well. Bushido should be shown more and credited more.

@georgemargaritis2392

25 күн бұрын

They were all about war, Tearing apart Japan in their thirst for power until they were finally defeated.

@shitslikebear

25 күн бұрын

What are your sources, or where does your expertise come from? Playing Sega doesn't qualify.

@patzhomura9371

25 күн бұрын

They harrass peasants before breakfast everyday. Create to foster life lol they are not doctors.

@user-dm9ii5uf1r

25 күн бұрын

Yes, because Japan was influenced by China in ancient times, many samurai and aristocrats understood literature and art. Samurai are not killing machines. They usually fight for their territory and family. When not at war, they will discuss and create like writers.

@TheSegaSuperFan

24 күн бұрын

@@georgemargaritis2392 you need to study more than just basic literature that’s presented here in the west. Actually take a look at their history, their past, they were just as devoted to the arts even more so than war. Christ it’s like talking to a six year old. There are so many texts from the Sengoku Jirai period (Japans warring states era similar to Chinas) that show even in the midst of war they put a high value on the spiritual and the arts. Even Miyamoto Musashi dedicated as much of his time learning about life and art as he did about the sword. If all you’re going to do is base level research and look at one particular aspect of their history, you’re not going to get the full picture. Some of the best poets and painters have come from Japan and from the various periods where Samurai were well established and known as the military caste.

This is one of the worst documentaries I've ever seen in regard to medieval Japan. It's full of errors and misunderstandings. Seppuku wasn't about dying in three days, an assistant cut your head after a few seconds. There are a lot of shortcuts on the story itself too.

@BrandonGrant-nw5tx

12 күн бұрын

Any suggestions then ?

@curtblackwaterbassvick8112

11 күн бұрын

I agree, it starts off saying the katana is the deadliest weapon ever made. This documentary seems to be opinion based with little facts

@Tiz147

10 күн бұрын

Which would you recommend?

@lastofmyspeciesg7716

8 күн бұрын

@@curtblackwaterbassvick8112they said deadliest blade not weapon. Anyway, the Katana is known for being the sharpest sword ever made and I can guaranteed you it is, not on no “bias” video.

@tropicalsun07

2 күн бұрын

And the costume, hairstyle and having the slipper in the room where he sits are wrong

The depiction of the samurai here is insulting!

@cos4779

17 күн бұрын

How so, and why?

@78tag

16 күн бұрын

@@cos4779 Where do you want him to start ?? Good "story" but an obvious misinterpretation to say the least. This is a very biased opinion piece. Come out of your video world and do some research for yourself if you are truly interested in reality.

@cos4779

16 күн бұрын

@@78tag lmao, so aggressive. calm down bud. i was just asking for his opinion, dont have to give sass.

@lakeedwards6408

7 күн бұрын

​@cos4779 People are so ready to argue and be aggressive online. It's sad. They only do it because there is no face. They're removed. Kind of like you're quicker to get angry in traffic because it's a car instead of a discussion with a person. I'm guilty of it too sometimes so I try to read my comment and ask myself if I would talk this way to someone in person before submitting.

Anybody here watching that new Shogun show? It's really really good! Highly recommend.

@rc59191

27 күн бұрын

I did it was amazing.

@michaelbatarick9617

27 күн бұрын

I watched the first 4 episodes but then it got boring, but I watched the age of samurai on Netflix and holy lord that was great

@apenza4304

27 күн бұрын

The book Shogun by James Clavell is a great read.

@joefawcett2191

26 күн бұрын

Yeah it was brilliant, it's based on a true story too, the English guy was based on William Adams, and Toranaga was based on Tokugawa Ieyasu

@Booz2020

26 күн бұрын

Make TOYOTA 🗾 Great Agains 😎 Scotty Kilmer

I never want to hear "Sam-YOUR-eye" again

@markrossow6303

20 күн бұрын

sahm oo rah ee so my Dad was U.S. Army MI on Okinawa ( oh keh nah wah ) in '64 / '65

@Yamadutai

5 күн бұрын

My ears are bleeding

The British way of pronouncing samurai always catches me off guard. It’s so funny to my ear

@NumbuhOne365

27 күн бұрын

lol SAM-your-rye

@elijah.akana24

27 күн бұрын

Definitely cringe.

@KennethWedin

27 күн бұрын

British historians do seem to mangle Japanese, Chinese, and Korean names and words quite badly, compared to other English speakers. This is especially true of British professors, who rarely-if ever-seem to have bothered learning the languages of the lands in which they specialize.

@Booz2020

26 күн бұрын

Slava SAMURAI 🗾 Geroyam Yakuza 🦾

@charliesmith_

26 күн бұрын

Arimasen.

First few words in and already I can see doc based on more myth than fact.

@Broken_Broom99

27 күн бұрын

I was done at the black ops comment lol

@leburger5160

27 күн бұрын

Yeah. they made the mistake of claiming Japanese steel was the best in the world. Japanese iron deposits were low grade. What made the katana so good wasn't the steel. What made it good was the technique of folding the steel to produce tensile strength to counter how shit the steel was. Japanese steel was notorious for being brittle and has always largely been considered shit by anyone who has any experience in metallurgy...

@AtHEEstory

27 күн бұрын

​@@Broken_Broom99 That and the shameless katana jerking despite all evidence to the contrary. That was the “Yup, I'm clicking off” point.

@estmed

26 күн бұрын

The katana was the utmost in technology......for cutting down unarmed peasants who disrespected you​@@leburger5160

@user-dm9ii5uf1r

25 күн бұрын

Japanese culture as understood by Westerners

I hope the creators of Shogun tv show give us a spin off show of the 47 ronin I think it'll be cool to see more about Japanese history

I love this story: hardened warriors exact justice against a corrupt, useless, and petty bureaucrat.

The samurai were like the Spartans that valued art poems and war . 2 truly remarkable ways of life. There is a Japanese saying that you can spend a whole lifetime looking at a tree change through the seasons and if you only did that it wouldn’t be a wasted life Truly amazing

@ahklys1321

23 күн бұрын

Discipline taken to brilliant heights

@Balrog-tf3bg

14 күн бұрын

The Japanese are really good at hiding their history huh?

It was a thrilled watching documentary about shogun rule and Semoray fighters clans... Thank you (Timeline) for sharing

Thx for sharing this video 🤙🏽

This is wrong at 40:09 they have shinsengumi in the video. They didnt exist in the 1700s.

@ghostwarrior3878

21 күн бұрын

They're taking creative liberties to tell the story... Any sense of historical accuracy is thrown out the window

Came to know the story through the movie but with this documentary could understand indeep more about 47 Ronin

@Samurai63864

20 күн бұрын

The move was better tho. Keanu is a true Samurai.

"the deadliest blade ever made"😂😂😂

Japan takes everything to another level. They really take "do everything to the best of your ability" seriously

@TheAlwaysPrepared

19 күн бұрын

🤣 Nice one

@frankmanitta4870

9 күн бұрын

nirvana on earth

What a great class of warriors.. the world will never see again 🙏👹

The lengths they went to and the long time they left it before striking amazes me. Brilliant story of revenge for there master. 🙏

@Samurai63864

20 күн бұрын

Yer but they should "Get a life". Miserable buggers.

9:55 was a pretty interesting scene where dude gets down on one knee and chops his katana at the grass. Sent shivers down my spine.

Excellent love the honour these guys showed

Wouldn't describe Samurai as 'black ops'

@MMURDZZ

24 күн бұрын

Why? Because they don't have night vision goggles and M4s? They were special soldiers conducting clandestine military operations under the cover of night. Of course the term "black ops" didn't exist in feudal japan. They used that term in this piece to give viewers a way to understand in more modern terms.

@Celisar1

12 күн бұрын

@@MMURDZZ You are confusing the samurais with ninjas.

@MMURDZZ

12 күн бұрын

@Celisar1 No. I'm not. Im talking about the subjects of this video. Samurai/Ronin.

@Metatron needs to see this one

No victory but death. Bit of a "self licking popsicle"... lol😅

Great story! Excellent stuff

The movie is really good and captivating, please release new videos so we can continue watching.

shogun brings me here

Cant wait for some Crown mods 😂 Need to hear that v8

Awesome.

Fitting in: can you imagine

This is as bad as Netflix 'Age of the Samurai: The Battle for Japan'. There are other channels that give a more simplified and accurate description of samurai. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to have read that samurai had ceased wearing the traditional armor almost 100 years prior. After Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the last of the Toyotomi loyalists and was affirmed as 'shogun', the Sengoku Jidai had ended. Armor was thus, no longer necessary.

@jamestomoana6616

5 күн бұрын

They did say that..that they had to make up their own armour from whatever they could.

Way to many Ads

@AA-hg5fk

18 күн бұрын

*too many

I so I've heard about how great the katana is...but japanese were impressed by European arms armor

@ghostwarrior3878

21 күн бұрын

The Japanese armies of that time period were not opposed to using better weapons and armor especially if it helps them get ahead in fighting.

@stevenhoskins7850

20 күн бұрын

Katanas are made for slashing. Cruciforms are made for piercing metal armor. The Katana is the better blade, but not as good against metal armor as a Cruciform.

@tannerdenny5430

19 күн бұрын

@@stevenhoskins7850 not better, different. But your info is spot on.

@Chewy_GarageBandDad

11 күн бұрын

@@stevenhoskins7850 You dont know what you are talking about. Samurai Katana were low in quality due to lack of resources and some lack of innovation e.g. using a clay Katara that does not remove a high level of impurities and Iron ore sand that yes, could be mined and sifted from rivers but most came from beaches and lack of dealing with the sulphur and phosphorous within the iron ore..

The Last Samire 🎬 ❤️ 💯

Respectful ❤

There are parts of the Keanu Reeves movie in this story but part of it seems like what happened in the Last Knights with Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman.

My Boerboel is named "Ronin Shenji". Weighs 58kg and does his work well...protecting us. After reading some of the comments and having some background I exited at 11 min.

This is the exact story line from “Last Knights”,weird

A lot of dorks saying this video is "historically inaccurate" but I don’t see anyone explaining how.

It's a good documentary but there are two points of criticism: 1) I'm quite sure that Japanese people won't agree to bushi being all about death. It's a gross oversimplification 2) The already long refuted myth that the Katana is the best sword and had the best steel there ever was. A european medieval longsword can perform the same as a Katana. And on directly trying to cut each other the Katana will be distorted to almost unrecognizable shape. But I do agree that the Katana is an ingenious piece of art and design with elegance and beauty, that is also up to its task as a deadly efficient weapon.

only in giving yourself to something bigger than yourself do you become more than what you are.

I am so glad they mentioned samurais used spears, blows and arrows, clubs, axes and other types of weapons after overpraising the katana. The primary weapons of the samurais in combat was not the katana but most often the bow and arrow and the spear, and later on, primitives black powder rifles. In fact, during combat if a samurai has to resort to using the katana, it is usually because he/she (and yes there were female samurais) screwed up badly somewhere during the fight.

The forms of Kanly have been obeyed!

Good one!

Where did this go wrong compared to the movie? Someone compare the 2 for me?

The deadliest blade ever made? If you mean how many people have died to it, then maybe. But if you’re talking the most efficient at killing…. Nah.

Many Japanese historians disagree with much of this story told by british story tellers.

Stop watchng at 0.53 Deadliest blade ever made.

I see Samurai I watch

It's surprising to hear that revenge is still heralded as a virtue in Japan, or at least that is the impression given by the end of this short documentary. In Edo Japan, the 47's actions are a consequence of desperation, and it seems like given the facts as recorded by historians, they took liberty with how they interpreted their master's death. If vengeance in and of itself is a virtue, regardless of context or circumstance in Edo Japan, that's an interesting insight.

@KennethWedin

27 күн бұрын

Having lived in Japan for decades, I can’t really say revenge (fukushu in Japanese) is integral in the society at all. I do notice it’s strong in Chinese society right up to the present.

@zasterheffor

27 күн бұрын

@@KennethWedin Thanks for the clarification. This documentary to me encapsulates, if anything, how inflexible behavioral traditions of Edo Japan often clashed with one another to the point of death. What started with critiques of social etiquette led to bloodshed, then death, just as another critique of etiquette - only this time, from the perspective of the 47 ronin - did the same. The narration romanticizes the efforts of the ronin, but it is still unclear whether that romanticism is representative of the cultural milieu then - or even the historical literature - or whether it is just the editorializing of the writers. It should be a little more clear on that front, especially when presenting history of a culture one is not native to.

Domo. From everyone who just had a Tishiro moment.

@roberthenry3757

24 күн бұрын

Mifume. Baka

Hatfield and the McCoys

How much is inaccurate in this quote documentary. It would take too long to point out all the flaws. I do appreciate the cost and effort put into the realism.

Sounds like the movie.

Best metal work ever? Relax, it was not. Stop perpetrating this myth. Katanas were not superior swords you weebs

@Daniel-wm3pk

18 күн бұрын

That what is? Please explain

Jin Sakai would definitely not going to like this

Would of been a better story for the new assassins creed game than what they came up with

It's bothering me so much on how me pronounces Samurai.

What is the movie about the 47 Ronan.

@itsmeagain7825

20 күн бұрын

47 ronin

It wouldn't be like drawing a gun in Buckingham Palace because the punishment wouldn't be 100% definite for anything done in Britain. And it had absolutely happened before during the same shoguns reign! Those are two facts. What isn't a fact at all is what happened after the affair at the palace, because there was nobody left to tell the tale.

House of the rising Sun 🇬🇧 🌎 🗽 🙏

Impeccable story telling!! Happy new sub here ↖️

I'm just here because of Ubisoft's new Assassin's Creed.

These 'so-called experts' are a joke

Where r my asian historians??

The obsession with death is not factual.The obsession is to one self and one’s pride and dignity.Death before dishonor.They just so happen to be excellent mercenaries.but to be a samurai is MUCH more than just killing and being obsessed with killing.

Couldn't make it past a minute. "Deadliest" swords ever ?? lol? Someone has been playing too many video games

This is shortly after the real guy from "Shogun" show real guy...the anjin...he was there in the mid 1600s and his real lord was from Edo

6:58

Who on earth made those supposed single-layer kimono and hakama? Clearly, they’re from some British thrift shop, likely imported from Vietnam, if not simply made by a British or Chinese seamstress from embarrassingly gaudy rayon. Likewise, the parchment paper is of ridiculously poor quality, and the text clearly was printed out with a printer rather than written cursively with a brush. I love Timeline, but the production value of this video was so embarrassing that I eventually had to just listen without watching.

Who’s the narrator

Why don't we have a Japanese person to tell us this story that happened in Japan ?

@PARABELLUM-sq4qb

22 күн бұрын

The person who uploaded it did it first

Is there a better representation available on the tube? You know one that isn't severely biased and full of facts?

So many errors in this documentary. But, they emphasize what the public has been groomed to believe. Myth sells. That is not to take ANYTHING from the 47. Loyalty like that is very rare.

'samyurai' come on

The samurine

Samureye

"In Tagalog. "Napaka-Bangis!!!"😮😮

I am American and I have never heard Samurai pronounced like this. Also, the wigs used for the men are so glaringly party wigs from the lical party favor store that it is almost insulting.

The SaMYUrai.. 🤦

These experts never come from the country where they expert in. Always amazes me….

The SaMyurai.. 🤦

Is this speaking of a dependent of who Torinagwa was based on?

I love your documentary as an African-American growing up in San Francisco I did a couple Asian women almost got married spent a lot of time at the Japanese cultural center in San Francisco we are both in college together and she used to tell me a lot of stuff and me and her family we always had a good life together but nothing bad you know that you're moving on you moving on but I wish I had her now cuz she had gave me so much knowledge on that culture God bless you on your video😂😂😂

@Celisar1

12 күн бұрын

You „did“ women. The most disrespectful way to refer to any sort of relationship. Tells us a lot about you and nothing good.

They are NOT special forces, they are SOLDIER. Special forces is those SHINOBI.

@pancakes429

25 күн бұрын

Shinobi aren't fighters, they are modern spies and assassins. Samurai on the other hand are even more elite than today's special forces as their life was war.

👽

Ronin were dishonored men who refused to commit seppuku after their daimyo was defeated.

The land of Wano??🧐🧐

Sorry, but as an anthropologist working at a university in Nagoya, Japan I will say thay this documentary is not very good. From bold statements with no factual basis, to showing images of random castles and temples while talking about a place completely different. Even the opening introduction is a strange statement. And it is crazy how British people struggle with Japanese pronunciation. My coworker who is from England, is amazing at Japanese. However his pronunciation of japanese vocabulary make me cringe.

There is so much wrong with this and so much exaggeration. No it was not the best sword, no it didn't take 3 days to bleed to death. You were decapitated in a very specific way by one of your closest friends or relatives seconds after you made the cut. Kind of disappointing to be honest, you could have been just historically accurate but you wanted to make an action move instead - at least by plot.

@michaelcollins827

18 күн бұрын

Who cares hahahaha

@Daniel-wm3pk

18 күн бұрын

What is the best sword than smart guy

@Raharth

18 күн бұрын

​@Daniel-wm3pk the question doesn't make sense. What's the best car, house, gun, dog? There is no magical "best", it's all time and context dependent

@Raharth

18 күн бұрын

​@@michaelcollins827apparently you, enough at least to answer 😄

Sam Your Eye Smh

@charliesmith_

26 күн бұрын

Bit like 'coror terebi' and 'biru'

@londonekhondela1141

22 күн бұрын

summer Ray

More likely obsessed with honor!

The best documentary I have seen in quite some time!

Sah-myou-reye

Samiuray

Sam You Rai.

Japanese do not walk on tatami mats in bare feet