I like the fact that you pointed out the voice issues because I was waiting for a African mans voice

If the hollywood movie about yasuke has just a tenth of the inspiration this short clip has, we're in for a treat.

@Names_buck

5 жыл бұрын

They are actually, Chadwick Bosemen is gonna play Yasuke

@undead9999

5 жыл бұрын

@@Names_buck that's what I meant. If that movie has a faction of this short clip inspiration, it's a movie worth watching

@davidcollegerosemont

5 жыл бұрын

Was Yasuke from Haiti?

@undead9999

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidcollegerosemont sources have him from either ethiopia or mozambique, with mozambique being the best guess. I don't think Haiti was developed enough back in the 16th century

@spirithawk2418

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidcollegerosemont No! Haiti didnt exist until the 1800's

Never knew about this before. Thank you for sharing.

@eagle162

5 жыл бұрын

@Kono Dutch yasuke was a real guy there are records of him.

@Jade_Hanson

4 жыл бұрын

@Kono Dutch yeah he's very real from what the records say.

@dewaynewhite2928

4 жыл бұрын

So much to unearth and dig up we'll be surprised on how much history is being hidden and suppressed out here and there!!!

@seadysettings6841

4 жыл бұрын

@Kono Dutch Why, unhappy there was a BLACK Samuria

@HolgerDanske

Жыл бұрын

Hes mentioned in 2 sources only and they are brief passages. Most of what they "know" is conjecture, wishful thinking and guessing.

Such a badass title: The First Black Samurai

@yeho8

5 жыл бұрын

and first foreign samurai too.

@davidcollegerosemont

5 жыл бұрын

It should be The Haitian Samurai. First Foreign Samurai.

@yeho8

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidcollegerosemont I know he was the first foreign samurai, but do you have a source for the Haitian thing?

@_nasuke.x3364

4 жыл бұрын

kfir lavi He was an African from Haiti

@dominicpersaud1155

4 жыл бұрын

@@kalmstormllc What Haitians ancestors came from Africa just like most of the Caribbean

In nine short minutes you managed to bring tears to eyes. Beautiful.

i really liked it! keen to see what more short films come through the Mandem platform!

Thank you! What a incredible video!

Wooaahhh.. the way it was written is awesome! You definitely merged history with fiction! Amazing!

@HolgerDanske

Жыл бұрын

Fiction is the operative word. All but 2 facts.

Samuel l Jackson should have narrated this

@nubianinc59

3 жыл бұрын

Mr Jackson did Afro Samurai and not appropriate for this. Plus, the narrator needs to be a woman. Lucy Lui?

Good piece of work -- So cool to be touching on this particular his/story

Mom's reaction when she meets the "black boyfriend" is "understandable" (I didn't say "acceptable). Japanese people are very exclusivist. Is not necessarily a "race thing". By the way, it is not unusual for Africans to have the same reaction. The notion that black people are deprived of "race pride" or even racism is ludicrous.

@mayraperezsostres5128

3 жыл бұрын

Good point. 👍 Sadly back to then and even today people forget the person and just look at skin color. So a patent worries about their children safety . Even if they support their children. 👍

@user-wb8lb4zt5z

3 жыл бұрын

No its not a race thing its a racism thing.

@guitarmanmusic5233

3 жыл бұрын

No. It is very unusual for black people to react on that way. I'm Fraican black , I know what I'm talking about.

@beckyelmore1094

3 жыл бұрын

But the narrator went on to explain her reaction ..and itvwasnt really based on racism at all

What a Great Story for Yasuke!

Well done to everyone involved!

This is so well done 👍 Thank you for doing this.

Thank you and love

Dude, this clip is so cool!

Wow!!!! Amazing!!!!!

Great job. Thank you for making this video and I can't wait for a live action movie to tell this story.

Amazing film

This was beautiful. Netflix needs to keep up this vein. Maybe a past lives scenario?

This is a phenomenal film!

Sorry my friend that won't scrub off!!!!

I love this.

Well done... please, I want more from you Guys...

What a beautiful story and what n honor to have such great ancestors.

Beautiful!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Beautiful

I want more a few fight sequences love story, heart break and of course passion for Ancient Japanese culture

Anyone feel a little disappointed about that this isn't actually about Yasuke? It pretends to give a subjective look at the figure but he's only ever an objective piece of the film. And this is reflected in the comments too. We're not here to learn about Yasuke, we're here to indulge in marveling at Yasuke. The first black samurai isn't the hero of this story. He's the servant to us navel-gazing our own reverence of him.

@timelkin838

3 жыл бұрын

I can't say you're wrong. That is a very intresting take. Too me this is metaphor rather then real. I think the way it's told has the feeling of methical on purpose. I enjoyed it. Purhaps someone will gain an interest from this. I for some reason am fascinated with African culture and the samurai which means to serve. Yuskae was a nobel man.

@HolgerDanske

Жыл бұрын

And he's not even a samurai.

Her perspective at the beginning was dope…her tho 😍

I mean one of the beat short films I’ve seen in a long time

That gave me chills 😎

this was diffrent man really nice job you told story with no action fight in it really love that

Thank you for making this, The anger and revenge of the Afro samurai as a child definitely comes to mind, I can imagine this to be true especially Yasuke tragic end, It’s so funny as On sidemen the other day the black man got a dna test and he was 25% Japanese🤣

Awesome work. Arigatou.

Great story thank you

Yo I love this keep going

Very nicely done

This was and is great.

This movie deserves to be in the Oscars Winning.

@HolgerDanske

Жыл бұрын

Why?

@Kingofthepeople

Жыл бұрын

@@HolgerDanske Because this is true history.

@HolgerDanske

Жыл бұрын

@@Kingofthepeople But only 2 facts. The rest is BS.

@Kingofthepeople

Жыл бұрын

@@HolgerDanske WRONG! Do watch history movies? Because soon or later there about to fix this movie and make it into action, drama, fighting, and history movie.

@HolgerDanske

Жыл бұрын

@@Kingofthepeople He wasn't a samurai, he fathered no children, there are no descendants of yasuke in Japan.

Dada nimependa ulivyo simulia. I love the way you presented this story

I've just bought the book. Hoping for an epic film. I want one on Thomas Alexandre Dumah too.

Well done 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I’m standing up in my seat r/n

Great Stories 👍

I see an athlete like serge ibaka embodying this role

Would have preferred this story over Tom cruises last samurai

This was dope

Blacks we The Ones

thanks this epic

I’m already proud to be black. Now I’m learning new things with two of many things I love in my life, my People’s history and Martial arts. This film makes me happy. Thank you to those who made it.

Knowing Hollywood Tom Cruise would be Yasuke.

@Nicole-vf9oc

4 жыл бұрын

Riiight 😭🤦🏾‍♀️

@idrissahmat498

4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@Cha4k

4 жыл бұрын

People misunderstand the title of that movie. Tom Cruises character was not "The last samurai". Ken Watanabe character was the Last Samurai and Tom Cruise is just a witness. I dont know if there were any European soldiers fighting in the Satsuma rebellion, But I assume so because there were a lot in the Boshin war. The Yasuke story seems to be getting massively over exaggerated since he basically seems to have just stayed at Oda Nobunagas house so he could show him off to his friends and then he got booted out when Nobunaga shortly after. A movie about a black samurai would make an awesome blaxploitation movie though, Something in the style of Lone Wolf and Club.

@ozaruspersona1631

3 жыл бұрын

Micheal B Jordan would fit more imo

Mandem! Lol love our london lingo

WOW

Can I repost this ???? I’ll credit you

It always find it fascinating what the l reaction for ancient peopled was like meeting each other for the very first time. Especially if the both had different skin color.

Man..this was chadwick boseman next project, Yasuke. It would have been epic and an interesting movie.

@cardo92w

3 жыл бұрын

Yep

Can you please give the names of Yasukes Desendants.

@atsukorichards1675

Жыл бұрын

Nobody can for there are no records of them (if there are any.)

Amazing video, and I love the interpretation of his history (Yasuke is probably my favorite historical figure). Just word of caution, the whole "For a samurai to be brave he must have a bit of black blood" thing, that wasn't a real saying and was most probably coined by a Frenchman during the 1800s. I don't recommend doing too much research into this though lest you lose your sanity like I did.

@yeho8

5 жыл бұрын

@Kono Dutch the hell you even talking about? This video? The frenchman who coined the phrase? something different?

@davidcollegerosemont

5 жыл бұрын

Yasuke was from Haiti?

@yeho8

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidcollegerosemont Source?

@HolgerDanske

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Keep misquoting ang using made-up history. People will take you seriously then.

movie worthy

I recommend the boook written by thomas lockley

Guess who coming to dinner? BOI I TELL YA!!

6:14 okay so great great great grandmother that’s maybe 150 year 200 years 300 at the most now the year is 2022-300=1822?!?! You need at minimum 2 more greats…

This is some dope shit

That was fantastic! Well done and masterfully executed!

Actually a RED belt in Japanese Martial Arts is the highest honor. But pretty close.

@colliebee7657

3 жыл бұрын

Actually that's only for some schools when awarded 9th or 10th dan. But pretty close

Whe times are tough remeber you could be the first black dude in ancient japen😮😮😮

My question is how come nobody heard of him up until little over a year ago?

@jordanloux3883

3 жыл бұрын

Why are we only learning about the Tulsa Black Wall Street Riots now?

@pkclinton8555

3 жыл бұрын

You expect them to teach you everything. Read n investigate for yourself. Watch what you uncover

@kimberlygoodwin8500

3 жыл бұрын

The Japanese knew about him. That’s why Afro Samurai is based on him.

For 8:51 secs i was transfixed and transformed. Great story telling, great narrating . Awesome.

As a Japanese, Japanese do not break the clothes that people wear. The samurai does not politely insult such a person from the beginning. There are some other scenes that are not Japanese. More than anything that old Japanese do. impossible. Nobunaga is a respectable person. We, Japanese people, have hated discriminatory things from long ago. So we fought in World War II. we wanted to end the colonial era. History has hidden much of the past. The Japanese army battled with life for liberation of the people.Almost propaganda. After the war, honest Japanese have been deceived. The problem is that a spoofing person is lobbying.

@oscarclaudio2848

4 жыл бұрын

@@MJ-pd2gc I think thats only the past wich need to be remenber but japanase are not like that anymore

@Nvrgofulretrd

4 жыл бұрын

You do remember the Bataan Death March, don’t you? The Japanese are not honorable in victory!

@trickzclipz5910

4 жыл бұрын

everyone has good and fucked up history that's been hiding deep down, but never truly gone. Waiting to be some day revealed.

@cyril8084

4 жыл бұрын

So the raping just didn't happen, I'm half japanese because I'm related to the raping of many Japanese soldiers and Australian nurses. Hardest part is my great grandmother was told to keep quiet as she was half Japanese nurse being raped by her own people. Yes japanese people are respectful and me living in both countries taught me that but in WW2 they were no less than the colonizers.

@markdurand9076

3 жыл бұрын

In denial much. The Japanese are not discriminating, really? Don't your own people discriminate against your own citizens the barukumin. Other Asian cultures such as China and Korea. In fact the rape of Nankin was a major example of such. WW2 WTF history are you reading? Japan was battling for their liberation are you crazy? They were invading other nations attempting to expand the Empire. While feigning peaceful intentions to the United States they were planning an unprovoked attack!

this is so Inaccurate. A complete lie. Yasuke was never hunted. Yasuke was highest rank Samurai since 1579 and Oda Nobunagas most trusted retainer. But many years later Oda Nobunaga was attacked by Akechi Mitsuhides army and forced to commit seppuku. Yasuke was there at the time and helped fight the Akechi forces. Immediately after Nobunaga's death, Yasuke went to join Nobunaga's heir Oda Nobutada who was trying to rally the Oda forces at Nijō Castle. Yasuke fought alongside the Nobutada forces but was eventually captured. When Yasuke was presented to Akechi, the warlord allegedly said that the black man was an animal as well as not Japanese and should thus not be killed, but taken to the Christian church in Kyoto, the Nanbanji (南蛮寺). However, there is some doubt regarding the credibility of this fate. There is no further written information about him after this.

@polly_9688

3 жыл бұрын

I hate it when they get historical movies wrong. They should put a lot more research into something first

@Warrior_In__The_Garden

3 жыл бұрын

Then looking at it objectively, it is a possibility

❤❤❤✊🏾

Only thing that got me mad was that the person who was speaking was like “wHaT DoEs ThIs HaVe tO dO WiTh ThE cOuPlE?”

@cardo92w

3 жыл бұрын

Lol..I was looking for this comment, after she asked.

You better believe it!! Chinese don't try to be Swiss Haitians don't try to be Hindu or Indian

I’ll play the samurai

With all due respect the wardrobe to this video needs fixing. The hair style and attire of the woman needs to be actually more Japanese than Chinese in appearance. You should also try to invest in finding people who actually speak the Japanese language. In this way the experience between the characters within the film will appear to be more convincing. ありがとうございます😊！

The heart of darkness?

@spiritedtoday

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I other words, “the light of darkness”.

Anyone here after Netflix announced an anime?

Did this narrator really experience this? Or it's just story she told

Is this a true story? Her being a descendant of Yasuke???

@betabeast169

5 жыл бұрын

wayne47able no

@ozaruspersona1631

3 жыл бұрын

No, it's not. Gotta Hollywood it up and add stuff.

@eddiewilliams7303

3 жыл бұрын

If you saw my descendants you would doubt their ethnicity. I believe it highly possible.

Japan had its doors closed to all foreigners for 200 hundred years . No trade or communication, so quite rightly suspicious of foreigners.. Japan's history is rich and complex . This story is a microcosm in massive wealth of complex relations with outside influences.. the film silence paints wonderfully , but the film its self can be interrupted very differently if you are a Christian it's a story about brave Portuguese Jesuits who strive through the odds to pass on the truth.. when really it was arrogance and ignorance of those Jesuits that their word was true and why wouldn't this culture want to convert.. completely ignoring the beliefs and complex construct of Japanese culture and how socially speaking Japan was advanced in a way foreigners couldn't comprehend or bother to even grasp..

An African Man A Respectful Perspective More could have been expressed of this unique individual, who has remarkably achieved so much, from a educated humble servant to a military position of great prominence. A few questions needed to be answered: 1. Where did he acquire such refined quality attributes from? 2. Did he inherit the moral values from his wise parents?? 3. This person is intelligently meek! Very keen to listen and learn; Explain how!! 4. Before arrival a proven skilled swordsman, and verbal tongue of wisdom; From where??? "To conclude: Look! Beyond the appearance skin deep within, of the African man Yasuke. Also give a supportive compliment to his better intellect." www.proverbpoems.yolasite.com www.poetry4charity.webs.com www.givehelp.wix.com/wisdom

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

If it only was real

“What do they mean by that?” Moorish Blood.

@coreyjenkins3056

4 жыл бұрын

Dark skin/Swarthy People. So called black people.

this shit made me wanna pick up a damn sword

I’ve been asking this question forever. Yasuke was given several concubines by Nobunaga. Where 👏 are 👏 hood 👏 babies 👏?!?!!

This is a big lie. Japanese woman didn’t look like this Chinese looking woman in that era. this woman wearing Chinese dress in this film. Please, know that first Japanese people were black and these blacks were many in Japan before world war 2. also, Yasuke was not the first black samurai of Japan.

@MONKEYSCHANNEL327

4 жыл бұрын

Please stop embarrassing us by claiming other people's cultures, you decrepit us when we try to claim things the true history that was actually stripped from us.,

@tesserav1448

4 жыл бұрын

@@MONKEYSCHANNEL327 What do you mean by us? I'm from Japan. why can't i speak the truth?

@Gilgamesh465

4 жыл бұрын

WeirdInternetz Please answer TesseraV ‘s question. Unless you are from Japan and you have evidence of being an expert on Japanese history you need to elaborate on a few details as to why you disagree with our statements about this film.

@mingchenwei1978

3 жыл бұрын

You are embarrassing black people and africans everywhere by claiming Egyptian and Asian culture.

"I shouldn't be reading this: *continues reading*

I dont care who narrarates black, white, whatev. But the constant stopping just to ask questions is messing up the overall tone of the story

She is wearing Chinese clothing not kimono.

@tesserav1448

4 жыл бұрын

August Hayek You are right! this is not a Japanese Kimino. It’s strange. Is this a propaganda to Japanese history?

@trickzclipz5910

4 жыл бұрын

westerners should not be writing history about the eastern history. especially if they know very little about it.

This narrative is historically innacurate !!!! It's low key insulting to the legacy Africans who have such a long rich history in early Japan that is often times conveniently ignored. Yasuke is "not" the first black or only black Samurai ! In fact, Sakanouye No Tamuramaro was a damn Shogun. Interestingly many believe he was a black man who was the first man to be given the title Shogun. Yea, let's make a movie about a random soldier and ignore the existence of Colin Powell.

Please like this comment its our petition to make this a good big hollywood movie

Why mar Yasuke's story with a fabricated doomed love story that focuses on racism? What's wrong with black men who, you know, did great for themselves, like Yasuke?

@_nasuke.x3364

4 жыл бұрын

Gale Mercado literally he was a slave so something racially motivated has to come up once in this video we know he was a great man but the fact that he was a slave and was now a samurai you can’t get rid of his past as a slave I agree that love should have not been brought into this story but racism plays a major role in this story

@trickzclipz5910

4 жыл бұрын

come on stop acting like black people were considered slaves until like 70 years ago. you are disrespecting those who died by trying to ignore their history wether it was a good one or a dark one (no pun intended)

@sephythelark

4 жыл бұрын

_Nasuke. x factually, we know very little about Yasuke, including how he was treated day to day by the Japanese. The Japanese thought Europeans were barbaric and beneath them yet we don’t have evidence of lynch mobs (outside of Tokugawa’s order to rid the island of Nabans), and I definitely don’t recall any stories about lynch mobs against Yasuke. That’s what I’m trying to get at. I don’t think I’m being disrespectful at all by trying to be true to Yasuke’s story instead of lumping him with every other African in history Lillie he can’t have an identity outside of that

but after the battle yasuke was back to slavery

@ozaruspersona1631

3 жыл бұрын

They don't tell you that part. Gotta make it look like everything is fair and good :D.

@philosophersbench6595

3 жыл бұрын

Ignorance at best

@ozaruspersona1631

3 жыл бұрын

@@philosophersbench6595 Explain

Yes!!!! I'd act in that for free!!!

SOOOO strange!!! I'm sorry I have to say I can find a little bit discriminative prejudice to Japanese in this video. For my eyes (I'm Japanese), expression of Japanese seems very strange. (1) Women's Kimono: Clothes in this video are not Japanese style, this traditional clothes looks more similar with Korean or Chinese style (2) Prejudice to African people: According "Shincho-ki" or many other literature written in this era, Japanese people were very curious about new thing, ex. foreign people, imported items, and they never discriminated against African people. A scene of trying to wash him: it surely was described by some books, but they had never torn off his clothes. Yasuke took only his shirt off by himself. Most of cases, since then till now, Japanese people have no sense of discrimination against African people. As for me, I can find prejudice to Japanese people everywhere in this video, it's very strange from the perspective of a Japanese person. This video wouldn't be created by Japanese person. Yasuke is still very popular amang Japanese young people, and I definitely like his true story. If you would love to know about him, I'm sure "Yasuke: Story of the African Samurai in Japan" "The Warrior Life of Yasuke :The African Samurai" "Was There Really A Black Samurai?" "Japanese and European Accounts of Yasuke: African Samurai (弥助) // 16th cent. Primary Sources" must be correct and realistic!!!

wow at this point jeep going make the movie yourself

Could that narrator be any more of a smug millennial annoyance? If I hired a voice over artist who kept telling me how I should be directing my short film, I'd fire her and hire someone else. And I get that it was a scripted part of the short film, but, still, what an obnoxious way to keep pulling the viewer out of your story. That being said, this video was a horrible way to draw attention to this legend. Most of the video is VERY inaccurate, even considering how little we know of the story. For example: racism against blacks wasn't really a thing in Japan at that time. The treatment Yasuke received from the people was merely curiosity, astonishment, and, eventually, honor. Why this video had to make the racism ties so heavily is disturbing. But I wouldn't expect better from our current culture, and I suspect the upcoming movie to butcher the story even worse.

@dannydevito5859

4 жыл бұрын

Shut up. Just shut the fuck up

@cyril8084

4 жыл бұрын

@@dannydevito5859 Why you Westerners always do this to our history try to mix it with your politics and fuck us over. You are always offended on our behalf yet do you ever ask how we feel.

@bruhphoenix3084

4 жыл бұрын

@@cyril8084 hi how are you?

@cyril8084

4 жыл бұрын

@@bruhphoenix3084 Hi

@bruhphoenix3084

4 жыл бұрын

@@cyril8084 crazy times am I right

While Yasuke did exist, little is known except that he did serve Oda Nobunaga. - ahahaha chopsticks in the hair, ok - nope - read the 2019 book. fyi in that period, the word samurai was not even used - it was bushi. Even the book i written by a white man..

@MamekoM

4 жыл бұрын

www.tofugu.com/japan/bushido/

This film is kinda dumb. About some girl and her boyfriend. And it’s annoying how she keeps interrupting.