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Post by stillpoint on Dec 17, 2016 2:06:33 GMT -5
  Published: April 23, 2008 Synopsis: "Traveling through the countryside together, Usagi and Gen cross paths with another intriguing wanderer: a female gambler named Sakura, who journeys across the land with a unique and mysterious mission. When Sakura meets a young girl at a gambling den who was sold into slavery by her destitute father, she determines to set the girl free. Unable to buy the girl from her owner, Sakura kidnaps her. The next morning, Usagi and Gen awake to a surprise-the girl has been left in their care, and they're surrounded by irate gamblers thirsty for blood!" Notes: - Collected in Usagi Yojimbo Volume 25: Fox Hunt and The Usagi Yojimbo Saga Book 6
- First appearance of Sakura
- First appearance of Matsutani the metsuke
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Post by stillpoint on Dec 17, 2016 2:20:29 GMT -5
Did Sakura appear way back in "Gen's Story"? I don't have a copy, so I can't confirm.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 17, 2016 7:43:26 GMT -5
Did Sakura appear way back in "Gen's Story"? I don't have a copy, so I can't confirm. I don't believe so. Gen does encounter a trickster husband and wife team in a flashback to his teenage years in that story, killing the husband and leaving the wife, but there's no suggestion that names are exchanged or relationships forged after that fact. Beyond that, the only female Gen encounters in that story is Lady Asano. |
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Post by stillpoint on Dec 18, 2016 2:33:23 GMT -5
Did Sakura appear way back in "Gen's Story"? I don't have a copy, so I can't confirm. I don't believe so. Gen does encounter a trickster husband and wife team in a flashback to his teenage years in that story, killing the husband and leaving the wife, but there's no suggestion that names are exchanged or relationships forged after that fact. Beyond that, the only female Gen encounters in that story is Lady Asano. Thank you! OP has been edited. After Inazuma's death a couple of issues before, there is now an opening in the Humorless Deadly Female Department, and Sakura has applied. As flippant as that reads, I actually think Sakura has potential. The whip is something different, and the revelation at the end that she's searching for a brother she doesn't have indicates she might be mentally unbalanced, which is intriguing. And then there are the tattoos. This is the third time I've seen a tattooed woman throwing dice in an Usagi story, but I don't recall an explanation for the body art. Quick research online leads me to believe it has something to do with a practice called bakuto, but there's never been an in-story name or explanation given. Or maybe I missed it. |
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Post by usagigoya on Dec 18, 2016 14:13:53 GMT -5
BLIND SWORDSWOMAN: HELLISH SKIN
aka:Crimson Bat 2 - Trapped, Crimson Bat
Directed by: MATSUDA Teiji
Cast: MATSUYAMA Yoko, Konoe Jushiro, IRIE Yasunori, MATSUOKA Kikko
The second film in this series has O'Ichi the Blind facing off against a woman who is an expert with the bullwhip! Terrific action and a great story make this one of the top films in the series.
O'Ichi may have met her match as she vies with the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroying her. She must face numerous other challenges before confronting her greatest rival.
While longing to live and love like other women, she is compelled to remain a desperado. This is one of the best samurai era films from Japan and has received high praise in Alain Silver's "The Samurai Film" the critical standard for the genre.
Remastered Print
1969 - Color - Widescreen
Japanese with English subtitles.
www.japanesesamuraidvd.com/.sc/ms/dd/ee/553 |
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Post by stillpoint on Dec 22, 2016 0:30:31 GMT -5
BLIND SWORDSWOMAN: HELLISH SKIN
aka:Crimson Bat 2 - Trapped, Crimson Bat
Directed by: MATSUDA Teiji
Cast: MATSUYAMA Yoko, Konoe Jushiro, IRIE Yasunori, MATSUOKA Kikko
The second film in this series has O'Ichi the Blind facing off against a woman who is an expert with the bullwhip! Terrific action and a great story make this one of the top films in the series.
O'Ichi may have met her match as she vies with the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroying her. She must face numerous other challenges before confronting her greatest rival.
While longing to live and love like other women, she is compelled to remain a desperado. This is one of the best samurai era films from Japan and has received high praise in Alain Silver's "The Samurai Film" the critical standard for the genre.
Remastered Print
1969 - Color - Widescreen
Japanese with English subtitles.
www.japanesesamuraidvd.com/.sc/ms/dd/ee/553 I guess that explains where Sakura came from. Really remarkable. Fun movie, too. I watched it on Youtube in Japanese wij Hungarian subtitles. I know neither of those but I followed along well enough. |
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Post by usagigoya on Dec 22, 2016 12:33:56 GMT -5
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Post by richarddragon on Aug 14, 2017 20:39:39 GMT -5
My goodness, I love this story. Not much to add, really.  |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 29, 2017 13:21:32 GMT -5
This was a fun adventure, I hope we learn more about Sakura in the future.
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Post by richarddragon on Aug 29, 2017 19:13:20 GMT -5
This was a fun adventure, I hope we learn more about Sakura in the future. I'm quite interested in knowing how she and Gen met before Usagi. |
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Post by brutalis on Nov 29, 2020 17:12:55 GMT -5
Nice introduction for Sakura providing just enough enticement to help keep us pndering as we await her return. Good to see another strong honorable female and using her wit as well as a whip. Intriguing that Gen has met and befriended her before and knows her well enough to know she does NOT have the brother she says that she searches for. For certain a story to come later.
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