Man RIP Chadwick Boseman. He would of been lit in this role 😭

@anas-432

3 жыл бұрын

Denzel Washington son would be great at the role

@armedwithwings3953

3 жыл бұрын

No he wouldn’t he’s not tall enough

@gunzborgia1403

2 жыл бұрын

@@armedwithwings3953 absolutely not true. He’s actually the same height is Yasuke. He was 5’9” when the average samurai was about 5’. I lived in Japan for 4 years & my fascination with him and his story became an obsession.

@Raul-wd1jb

2 жыл бұрын

@@armedwithwings3953 who? Chadwick would’ve been perfect as Yaskue

@riccslicc575

2 жыл бұрын

I agree 1000 %

Hollywood would whitewash all the greatest black icons and performers of the 20th and 21st century if the could. We should tell our own stories 💯

@goldenleopard9778

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. The Samurai with Tom Cruise.... Really?

@suedecomponent8931

5 жыл бұрын

We should, but we've chosen not to. Africans seem to prefer to make'em cheap and fast at the moment, especially Nigerians. And we, Black Americans prefer to work in other peoples' systems than putting in the effort to build our own infrastructures for some reason.

@earlymanproductions8863

5 жыл бұрын

Go back to From Nothing

@menaseven9093

5 жыл бұрын

yes

@timvanrijn8239

5 жыл бұрын

there are also 3 more outsider samurai then yasuke

“The Japanese distributed their prejudice equally” lol

@DOMiNOUKAE

5 жыл бұрын

Racist equality, everyone get criticized fairly lol

I just learned about Yasuke today. My grandmother is Japanese. Today Chadwick Boseman passed away. He worked on movies while going through treatments. I am sad to hear this news. He played Black Panther from marvel.

Only a black film studio can truly do his history justice, we shouldn't expect for a white film studio to do it right, especially when they have a white director behind it.

@okuomose1

5 жыл бұрын

Since black America depedance on Hollywood then Nollywood is the only option but they are a low budget company

@masterDarts4188

5 жыл бұрын

That makes no sense. Race has nothing to do with talent regarding the arts.

@ohemaa_ang

5 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily true. It has to be black Africans because black Americans were taught eurocentric history therefore it might still be white washed.

@gborowme

5 жыл бұрын

That is how I see things now, please do not profit from our blood. We need to jump on opportunities, especially diasporas in our home country or anywhere in Africa. We are best to tell our stories

@Mekahw

4 жыл бұрын

Ohemaa AnG I hate to break it to you but even Africans are still tough euro centric history. African countries are the only countries that don’t teach their students in their native language.

His name is pronounce yahs-key, the u is silent in Japanese.

@sdeal709

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It annoys me his pronunciation

@kihro

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@Liliphant_

3 жыл бұрын

Japanese here. Both are correct. In natural, fluent speech the u is often dropped, but pronouncing the u is not incorrect.

@Liliphant_

3 жыл бұрын

If there is anything to nitpick it's that the emphasis should be on the first syllable (YA su ke rather than ya SU ke), but it's okay

@kihro

3 жыл бұрын

@@Liliphant_ cool. I usually get corrected by Japanese when I do that lol.

His sculptures are nice, too. Very interesting figure here. Afro-Samurai.

*Note* On the portuguese sources... the portuguese generally referred to all of East Africa as 'Ethiopia' during the general time period inwhich Yasuke lived. When hometeam quotes them discussing 'Ethiopians' around 2:00, that's in reference to general east Africans, not the Habesha or 'Abyssinians' in specific.

@earlymanproductions8863

5 жыл бұрын

Hidden go back to Jabari 🤣🤣 jus playin

@rigmarhaynes4197

5 жыл бұрын

Great observation. Sometime people use the term Ethiopian and not fully explain to the audience that they don't mean the modern country called Ethiopia.

I can’t wait to see this movie. I will read more about this too.

@valeriemoon3686

5 жыл бұрын

Christian El TRUTH BE TOLD HE WAS NEVER REAL HE WAS MADE UP

@Naeem_El

5 жыл бұрын

Vicente Rodriguez Yeah i just happy cause Chad is from Anderson Sc and so am I and we grow up in the same neighborhood but his is older then me. I do get what you saying though.

@valeriemoon3686

5 жыл бұрын

Christian El I’m saying that the black samurai was never real, he was just made up

@Naeem_El

5 жыл бұрын

Vicente Rodriguez dang well that suck thanks for letting me know

@valeriemoon3686

5 жыл бұрын

Christian El yeah no problem trust me I was happy about that too but my grandma and most of my family shut that down with factual evidence

Good video, although I believe the “u” in Yasuke is more silent and it sounds more like “Yaas-Kay” (though I could be wrong)

@DOMiNOUKAE

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, its YA-SK-É

@RNGSHOTARO

4 жыл бұрын

Nah u right man

@ShaQuilaRoberts

4 жыл бұрын

Bro. I cringed every time he said it lol. But I loved this video so much I couldn’t turn it off

@younggrasshopper8680

3 жыл бұрын

Like Sasuke in naruto

@keziahokanga3589

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShaQuilaRoberts Haa Haa!! Yessss! Same! Cringing as I write this, LOL!

I don't really understand how historians can really buy into the "yasuke was a slave" thing. Speaking only with logic and drawing from my own experience in martial arts: you simply CAN'T learn to fight effectively in a short time if you're never been exposed to fighting before. He could not have risen that high and that fast in Oda Nobunaga's service without having previous military experience and training with weapons. You can learn to shoot a gun pretty fast, but to fight with a sword you need to basically be born to it. There is one, minor, group of historians who keep suggesting the idea that Yasuke was not a slave, but a mercenary/bodyguard in the service of the jesuits, with previous experience in warfare with muslims or christians in Africa and India, which would make much more sense than being a manservant with no weapon skills. (one of such route is followed in the excellent book: Yasuke: In search of the african samurai by Thomas Lockley). I'm seriously intrigued by what Hollywood will do. They ought to milk that "Wakanda forever" sentiment, hit the iron while it's hot. I legitimately fear that this will bend the historical truth of Yasuke's story in order to cash in those sweet virtue signaling points.

@erichawkinsjr7875

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly i smell the bs soon as they said first

Great video, I see you've been grinding out a lot of quality work my brother.

For the mere fact that Yasuke became a Warrior under a Japanese ruler profoundly states the strong possibilities of not being a slave. None if the Art express such according to Japanese records.

I anticipate a lot of pushback from Japan for this movie. It will be an interesting story but I doubt that the historical context will be respected and presented accurately without 21st prejudice After the massive profits made from black panther there will be more films featuring black historical characters and hero's. I ll be very surprised if the film doesn't portray yasuke as a tragic slave treated as inferior and dangerous by everyone .

@noziphokhwela4561

5 жыл бұрын

That's true

@johnathan2684

5 жыл бұрын

Hollywood does have a history of destroying Black man's image. On the upside, could get folks to start reading history again, African and Asian.

@TIENxSHINHAN

3 жыл бұрын

Japan loves Yasuke. They have cartoons, video games, children's books etc based on him. They know more about him than black folks do honestly

@user-oh9ye4jm4h

3 жыл бұрын

It's a dilemma. If the movie is based on the real records of yasuke from the book, world people will call my ancestors such racists af. If the movie is based on the youtubers' story, Japan will become much more lovely country for all over the world but Japanese politician s will start using the story as their new dirty propaganda. Sigh.

I would rather see a film about the African warrior queen kandake Amanirenas who defeated the Romans, I am sick of these slave films.

@ladymsthing6056

5 жыл бұрын

Jenjen 100000 it would be nice if Africans made these movies about their people. Movies about my ancestors who were slaves are still important. They paved the way for others to be here. I highly recommend Birth of A Nation about Nat Turner or 1804 about the slave revolt in Haiti.

@ModernHamite

5 жыл бұрын

I never watched "12 years a slave" no matter how much Hollywood ramped and raved about it. I agree with you we need movies about great black history long before slavery happened. And the Tyler Perry movies are getting kinda old now.

@larezmoody487

5 жыл бұрын

I am intrigued about this Queen you have stated. There is so much of our history that has not been told.

@honeyblossom17

5 жыл бұрын

@@cinnamonstar808- Exactly.

@Jenjen-qc5eq

5 жыл бұрын

@Ray Kemet Exactly, I want to see films about the Kandake Queens or the black hero of the Trojan war who was Ethiopian and was called Memnon, he was supposed to be the greatest archer and the Greeks held him equivalent to Achilles. Hollywood should be doing stories like these, not slavery films, forever depicting blacks as victims, I am sick of it.

Excellent video like always. I hope they take note to make the movie as authentic as possible...not holding my breath though. Btw the pronunciation for 'Yasuke' is (YAH-skay).

@chykim1

5 жыл бұрын

Congratulations

@makeitreal4848

5 жыл бұрын

His prononciation is good,simply ,Yasuke

@michaelcolon4162

5 жыл бұрын

Make it real I dont se how he is wrong. Its spelled just like Sasuke from naruto. Why would it be any diferent?

@devinmitchell3434

5 жыл бұрын

I wish I'd seen this before I commented 😂

@GrimAdventures.

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting the correction. Glad to see someone else knows how to pronounce his name correctly.

The point that made Yasuke interesting was not only his skincolour, size or generall attractives. Yasuke also learnt Japanese quicker than others. Which made him endearing.

@TIENxSHINHAN

3 жыл бұрын

It was probably easier for an African to learn. Apparently it's still like that. African immigrants in Japan and China pick the languages up quick.

Look at the Black in Japan interview of the author of the book African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan. In the interview, the author notes that Yasuke more than likely was not a slave since the priest he came with was against slavery. Also, it talks about how the color black had positive (guardians of the gods) and negative (goblins?) impressions. kzread.info/dash/bejne/f3qWrpuplpOelcY.html

@pauloseara7332

5 жыл бұрын

Its unlikely Yasuke to be a slave, but a black christian from a well off background. I must point that from a historic point of view on that time the portuguese armadas or trading ships in the Indian Ocean employed people from many nationalities, portuguese, spanish, italians, germans, christian indians from the church of St Thomas, former muslims, maybe chinese and indonesians... Slave routes where controlled by Muslim traders all east africa, and the Portuguese only possession by that time Yasuke lived was the Island of Mozambique and a small fort at Sofala. The first place was a base to rest and water ships, the second one, an attempt to have access to gold trade from today's Zimbabwe. Whatever Hollywood decides, Portugal will be portrait as the devils epitome!

@kamikazehound3243

5 жыл бұрын

mkmgramirez actually I read Yasuke was a missionary that travelled to Japan with an Italian missionary.

@sunofsotep8265

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thank you for the link.

@wayne47able

3 жыл бұрын

Early portuguese documents clearly state that he was a Muslim

@marcojeffries8375

3 жыл бұрын

I have never heard about this black samurai l am sock.

Yasss- Kay The pronunciation is Yasss- Kay Love everything you reported but you may have overlooked the fact that there were more than just one black samurai

@stefdelev

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you lol was hoping somebody said it.

@projectrain2254

3 жыл бұрын

Oh really? Who were the others...?

Swear to goodness when Hollywood get they claws on something it ain't going to be right! 💕

@okuomose1

5 жыл бұрын

It should have been done in Japinwood

I don't know if it's language contact or just coincidence but have you ever noticed how some Japanese words (in Romanization) look similar to Swahili words even if they don't look alike, it's just the spelling that gives that feeling?

@arushanioshaka5600

5 жыл бұрын

Yall i notice that

@earlymanproductions8863

5 жыл бұрын

Like the ambassador of Japan to Kenya, Toshitsugu Uesawa. Sugu and Sawa are Kiswahili words.

@sevenstreams7581

5 жыл бұрын

Not a coincidence, but an evolution.

@elsakristina2689

5 жыл бұрын

@@BitotaNkongolo-ws9wd yes!

@vtecnegro85

4 жыл бұрын

Even Italian has some swahili links.

I was so excited when I saw the article about this!

So glad you finally made a history video of him!

I swear that intro/outro chant have me on level 10 thousand ❤🖤💚

Once again , thank you for the history . Keep it coming.

I'm so excited for the movie, friend referred me to this channel when I mentioned it.

Thank you for this video !

We must support the truth when it is told, so hopefully hollyweird gets it right.

Good job, narration well done

"Returning to Africa" I like how that sound in my eardrum.hahah I like when you remind us about the timeline and the baggage of that time. Today is my history evening, thank you. Please do one on Bunce Island in Sierra Leone, West Africa. I have before and after pictures and passion to restore that island.

I apologize for not saying it earlier outstanding video very informative my brother.

keep em coming!

Peace and greeting to africans all around the world

great video..very informative..

Love this

Excellent presentation of your well researched opinion. Professor Gerald Horne's book "Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity" adds to a more recent view of African-american and Japanese people too.

Love this video!

I hope so & can't wait to see it on the Silver Screen

Peace love and light my brother we really enjoy watching your videos very educational, one question where did you find that theme music from I would love to download it very energetic and Powerful. Peace love and light

Great topic!

Thank you for your insightful story of a mighty Black warrior.

History of the Mbundu please?!

I'm from Rwanda and I don't know why but I've always felt as though japanese and kinyarwanda are a somehow related. For example the word "kamikazi" in kinyarwanda is just a name for mostly women.

@ofentsefefe04

4 жыл бұрын

Vinci sounds like the Zulu word “Nkosikazi” which means wife or woman. It’s nice how the African languages always sound similar and connect.

I love my black families!! Though we're all more than the color of our skin. No matter how beautiful and strong we are.

Greatness always

The Yasuke anime on Netflix is 🔥 Hollywood..we are a beautiful, strong and intelligent people!✊🏾💪🏾🙏🏾

Black people have a very rich history .I have learn so much on your channel. Keep up the work

The problem with this movie is the fact that it will dismiss the earlier presence of Blacks in Asia. Actually, the first Asiatic man is Black.

Interesting, I've never heard of this man before. I'll have to look I to him more.

Great vidéo, About the great gaïjin Samuraï

could you do a video about the siddhi particularly the ones in Pakistans who live in the sindh region

I can't wait to see the movie

is old boy going to play every African-American or African across the world in movies this is his 3rd biography pic lol ?

@ciello___8307

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately hollywood typecasts a lot. Not just Black actors too. Like, have you seen Stallone play something other than an action character?

@trishabidesi8604

3 жыл бұрын

Well, his no more now. Your wish came true, and now someone else will play the role.

Anjin (William Adams) and Yasuke... these 2 are my favourite non Japanaese Samurai! Ah... if there was more backstory on Yasuke which is not fiction.. that would be great. I think a great deal of historical research must be done in order to tell the Story of Yasuke the right way.

Coming to this late, but this is one of the most honest and interesting videos on the subject. The only real, solid evidence that Yasuke was a slave was that the Italian missionary was paid when Yasuke changed service to the Shogun. The controversy over whether he was a samurai comes from there being no official ceremony or documentation of him being given that rank. But all the circumstantial evidence points to it.

If I could time travel, I love to see this man in person. To learn about the legend and see what happened to him afterwards.

Thank You.

It's good to know that he was likely from my home country (Mozambique 🇲🇿❤️)

I just found out about it from "let's ask shogo your Japanese friend from Kyoto" he explained it in a more cultural way, it is very interesting

The way he said yasuke sounds like ya-suuuuuske like sasuke

Great I was Pushing for this Yasuke was the Man they have status of him Awesome I can't wait to see this hope they get this Right

Damn bro had my headphones on and volume a little extra and you video started...ya deep ass voice came through and I thought the ghost of Barry white was dropping some knowledge on me...plus it startled me

@hometeamhistory806

5 жыл бұрын

Johnny Rock Lol!

I will definitely watch the movie. I hope they will adapt it well.

Cuh.... The moment I heard they were making a Yasuke movie I already knew the route hollyweird was going to take. Great video as always. B1

They should allow the director of the black panther to direct this movie, because I’m sure any other director won’t don’t such a movie any real justice. As a brother living in japan for 16 odd year Yasuke isn’t known by your everyday Japanese, I’ve watch many Japanese documentaries about Nobunaga and never did they mention anything about Yasuke ever. My own wife who’s Japanese never even knew of Yasuke existence. It’s as if the deliberately erased him from Japanese history.

@bettythomas8660

5 жыл бұрын

The older folks know of him, but not the youngsters!

Can you make one about the African that went to India and became like a politician or something there? Please

This is going to be a interesting movie

@nolaalways3815

5 жыл бұрын

@Ray Kemet it will be alot of money put behind this film, i wonder who's directing

@ModernHamite

5 жыл бұрын

I hope your right homie.

If you haven't already discussed, what's your thoughts on Sakanoue no Tamuramro.

@hometeamhistory806

5 жыл бұрын

terrence williams I don’t have an opinion on him as I’ve never researched it

I can see a statue of Yasuke being built somewhere in East Africa soon. There's already a museum for the first English samurai (William Adams) in Britain.

History of the Ga-Adangbe please

Damn Bruh this was so on point! Komojin means red hairy man that is Esau right there! These Negros saying Esau is the Arab are all in a sunken place! Thankyou bro!

Whatever happened to the Mansa Musa movie

Great video. I dis similar reseach. Looks like theres one book on an Amazon dedicated to Yasuke. I wonder if JA Rogers did any work on him?

@johnathan2684

5 жыл бұрын

@spider879 excellent article. I did not know any of this history

@bettythomas8660

5 жыл бұрын

@spider879 if you look on ole photos from that period their clothing & features are very African. If I can find the book title i'll leave here, I believe there are 16 volumes in total which depicts people from around the world in their traditional clothing.....very interesting!

My friend aiko gets excited about anything yasuke. They need to put him in the samurai warriors game. Yasuke seems to be common Knowledge in Japan

I always thought the ainu were the first people of japan. You can also youtube chinese trace origins to africa.

@honeyblossom17

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@supernova5293

4 жыл бұрын

Louis Banks You people are pathetic. Always trying to make blacks the origin of everyone and everything. I bet you also believe the North Africans and Israelites were black.

@cyril8084

4 жыл бұрын

I've got a theory it's called everyone came from Africa and there is a link between Ainu and Australian Aboriginals which came from Africa.

@cyril8084

3 жыл бұрын

@TheCrazyKid1381 Argue with can't argue with genetics kid.

@cyril8084

3 жыл бұрын

@TheCrazyKid1381 Well they still have links to Aboriginals. Did you you know Caucasoids and Mongoloids of different ethnicities can have multiple links.

Is there record on yudake in Africa after he returned. That is if he did. Thank you for this video. 👍💖 What you think of the book ? Should I buy it ? 🤷☕👍

I'd rather see Trevante Rhodes as Yasuke than Boseman, I love both actors though

Hollywood definitely need to make a Yasuke movie

Can’t believe he past away. Rip To a young legend.

I'd like to see Smaurai vs ninja as well. As this was the year Nobunaga defeated the Koga.

Antoine Fuqua will give the character justice. If he directs the movie.

May I ask for sources on the historical info in this videos?

Doggone it,Hometeam u at it again,,good job

I gotta say. I didn’t think they would make a movie out of this.

Nice

Lets hope its a Japanese writer/director who makes the film!

@crystalsplace7163

5 жыл бұрын

Betty Thomas I hope so too. But we all know Hollywood wouldn’t do that.

Well, since Chadwick Bozeman is going to play Yasuke, then maybe we can have some hope that they will do justice to the story. Boseman should have some good pull in Hollywood now with Black Panther and Avengers under his belt. Everyone will be expecting someone powerful and dignified like T'Challa.

I'm reading a book about Yasuke now and it appears he might be of Dinka origin given his height and although he was a slave he became Valignano's bodyguard and was skill full tactician and warrior even before joining Oda Nobunaga.

I love your videos and Chadwick boseman is a good actor but I'm tired of people making him be acting in every movie I don't understand why they couldn't get it African from the tribe that the man was in to play him is disrespectful to me to see African American people who are descendants of Africans but we know nothing about the history and I hate when white people make movies about Africa is disrespectful because they never do it right plus I hated that they had this African lady from Africa play Harriet Tubman she doesn't understand what it was like to be a slave in America like I don't understand we are all black but there is differences cultural differences and we must all Embrace that I'm tired of them getting one black actor and making them playing every damn movie we can get upcoming new actors to be the fresh face of movies

@ronaldmadziro5679

5 жыл бұрын

Very true.Hollywood akways thinks of profits so Chadwick is a safe bet like what Denzil used to be.There are other actors better suited to the Role.Winston Duke,Micheal Jay White or Idris Alba would have been better casts.As an African person I am growing tired of this tension between Africans and Black Amerikkkans online.The 2 groups have been feuding online and its fueled by some Populist Black Amerikkkan youtubers who post anti African anti immigrant rhetoric.They are the same fools who said an African actor cannot play Hariat Taubman coz she was American.Now the same idiots don't complain if a black American plays an African man that never set foot on Amerikkkan soil.Those black Amerikkkan social media commentators are Xenophobic.Tariq Nasheed is another example of a populist black Amerikkkan who gives divisive rhetoric to make Black Amerikkkans superior to other blacks,just another Xenophobe.

@crystalsplace7163

5 жыл бұрын

Lacedra Minor Exactly.

Will we still get to see this movie?

As long as they detail Portuguese slavery in Mozambique Zimbabwe Zambia Tanzania zanzibar and Mombasa Kenya.

I just realised something absurd. Yasuke wasn't in the Drifters manga of which Oda Nobunaga is a key character.

I want to see this movie. Please somebody complete it.

I hope they show different Japanese opinion not just on Yasuke but on African people and other races so we can different range of views on race. Also I hope they do good job on battles with oda nobunaga( every time I see his name i think of Samurai Warriors interpretation ) and as for the ending IMO they could give not very exciting ending he just goes on with his life no longer as a samurai but as normal person working and drinking and getting laid until he dies.

Bruh Chadwick should not play this role. It should be played by someone not so famous, someone most people don't already know from somewhere. That gives it a more "real" feeling like you're actually watching a movie about this man Yasuke and not a movie about some African ninja dude, played by Black Panther.

question for you bother do you have any info on the Yautja Tribe?

@hometeamhistory806

5 жыл бұрын

Stron9 F1ow No I haven’t... where are they from?

@tbridge6859

5 жыл бұрын

@@hometeamhistory806 supposedly it's a group originally called the Magi from Kemet or the Moors from Kemet I'm just trying to see if there's any truth to this. Supposably the Samurai stems from African culture was a big part of Japan's lifestyle. Supposably need to have some form of neural melanin to become a samurai.just having a hard time finding info on this

RIP Chadwick Boseman, he would have been great in this movie.

They should make yasuke come back to Africa, and teach some Africans Japanese ninja stuffs and then show some hidden elite force of Africa ninjas that only the black panther knows off, and black panther goes to call them back sometimes in the future in some marvel movie to help with some certain difficult war. I have whole series already rn lol

Yasuke has no record since the war of Honnoji in 1582, but if IEYASU TOKUGAWA was active as NINJYA in SENGOKU-JIDAI until the unification of Japan in 1603, it seems to be interesting as a movie series.

Let the movie tell HIS story, not a Whiteman interpretation of it. Hence we need, historian, Japanese and a possible Black director input.

@crystalsplace7163

5 жыл бұрын

nitetimejohnson Exactly.