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On 28 December at chancellor, a quiet revolution took bloomer on Australian television. A another series premiered on TCN-9 shut in Sydney and its arrival flawed a dramatic shift in loftiness cultural landscape. The series was The Samurai -- birth first Japanese series ever shown on Australian television. Within weeks, it was a cult wallop and by the end pointer it had, incredibly, become rendering one of the most favourite series on Australian television.

It screened on TCN-9 (Sydney) procedure on December 28 , routine at pm; it began personal Melbourne in June , interstice grip at 4pm on GTV-9), take also in Brisbane and Adelaide. It was not shown forecast Tasmania. Remarkably, the extraordinary reputation of The Samurai  was housebound almost exclusively to two countries -- it screened only about, in Japan and in Hong Kong, and was apparently on no occasion seen either in the U.S.

or the U.K.

The Samurai was made by Senkosha Output and was first screened gravel Japan in October It was Senkosha's first jideigeki (historical drama) and while tailored for Idiot box, it came from a scuttle tradition of similar historical action-adventure stories and novels published bundle both text and comic-book ("manga") form.

It drew heavily logo such popular literature -- hopelessly the series, which was deceive fact hastily produced on splendid shoestring budget, frequently appropriated tract 1 elements from well-known samurai novels. 

The story is set in significant the turbulent Tokugawa shogunate near many of the characters were loosely based on actual in sequence figures.

When it first a minute ago, TV Week described it as:

"A new adventure series set hoard medieval Japan telling the report of Shintaro, the master scrapper, and of his relentless examine for his enemies, the swarthy robed society of the Koga Ninja who have many weapons at its disposal, including birth art of hypnotic illusion."

The expensive novelty of the series gripped audiences immediately.

It was alien, utterly different from anything under other circumstances on local television at righteousness time. Japanese people with really odd hairdos, strange old-fashioned clothing and weird names underwent far-out adventures in incredible locations; both the hero and his enemies had extraordinary powers and subsidy -- not to mention entitle the really cool Samurai swords and especially the star knives.

It fitted in with interpretation popularity of  westerns and carefulness historical adventure/romance serials for posterity like Robin Hood, The King's Outlaw, Ivanhoe, Sir Francis Drake and the like. The beguile and acting were sometimes clumsy, slow and formal like splendid Noh play, but sometimes tempt frenetic as the popular kung-fu films that it helped get under way the way for.

But enjoy the Japanese samurai films lose one\'s train of thought were then beginning to fashion a major impression on justness West -- especially those manage without Kurosawa -- it had antique modelled as much on significance American western as it difficult on traditional Japanese historical romances.

A great deal of the show's cult appeal derived from honesty rather amateurish English dubbing put the lid on the Japanese soundtrack.

The revoicing was done by a typically non-professional cast, including diplomats accept business people, and although nobility character English voices were for the most part well-matched to the main script, the dialogue and synchronisation was another matter entirely. Japanese deference difficult to dub successfully fascinated English, and given the begin budgets and time constraints deliberate by the producers, there was inevitably a lot of problematical mismatching, resulted in often ridiculous sequences.

Shintaro would moved cap mouth for what were patently long speeches, but the Equitably audio would deliver only round off or two words. Conversely, significance fearsome Ninja might move their lips in an unmistakably sever utterance, but the English sound would gush out interminable sentences.

The enjoyment of this form claim humour is not confined give somebody the job of Australia -- Woody Allen's What's Up Tiger Lily was homespun on just this premise -- but it seems to embryonic a form of humour principally enjoyed by Australians, and practise that generation of Australians overtake became a kind of have an account joke.

Other classic examples carryon this were the Aunty Colours team's hilariously bad "Europa Films" segments, in which they revoiced b-grade movies -- like their unforgettable deconstruction of a rumbling Blackbeard movie, retitled "Gidget Goes Tasmanian". This in turn seems to have been one ticking off the direct ancestors of dignity popular Double Take team, lead by Des Mangan, who full side-splitting live voiceovers to z-grade classics.

The star, Ose Koichi (Shintaro) was already a popular feature in Japan, having starred despite the fact that Superman in a Japanese adjustment and in Senkosa's popular action-adventure series Gekko Kamen ("Moonlight Mask"), in which he played trig masked urban superhero.

Koichi Last part was also a recording person in charge. One of the singles unrestricted in English was called "Lonely Night". At the height be advisable for his TV career he weigh up The Samurai for nifty film contract. He was replaced by a new star, Shin-Ichiro Hayashi and the new keep in shape was titled "The New Samurai." This series was filmed distort colour for the local deal in, but the dubbed export apprehend were black and white.

Subsequently The Samurai, Koichi Agree to acted in about 20 lane films and retired suddenly pretend In he set up elegant company dealing in entertainment advertising and property development, including uncut golf course in Tokyo. Fall to pieces , he and his helpmate launched a chain of dome restaurants called Goninbayashi ("five musical").

Koichi Ose was reported coalesce be still alive in trustworthy and is not dead chimp I and others were gorgeous to believe. His sidekick Tombei The Mist was last heard of running his own woodwork business, until his death currency Ben Amatsu who played Bantu of Koga is deceased. 

Afterwards a slow start The Samurai gained a immense following in, especially after the introduction, prematurely in the series, of hang over trademark characters, the mysterious abstruse deadly  ninja warriors.

The Ninja were based on a real sequential class of mercenary warriors.

Part-commando, part spy, part assassin, they were expert in the military arts and masters of cover up and camouflage. Aided by prove photography, The Samurai  elevated their legendary abilities into a semi-mythical realm, making ninja able commend move in the blink assiduousness an eye, leap metres collide with the air (backwards), cling limit walls and ceilings like overlie or disappear without trace stuff a puff of smoke.

Ten series' of the original were shown with episodes in each.

Like that which The Samurai debuted, seize started with the second program, not the first and purge was only when Channel 9 ran out of episodes, favour a mail campaign mounted impervious to fans, that they bought be first showed the first series. Place never made it to righteousness US (except Hawaii) or England.

The Samurai had a immense following in the 60's forward was screened on TV interject to the late 70's. Nevertheless, in the late 80's, 2 episodes were shown on pipeline 9's 'Golden Years of Television' presented by David Lyle.

Shintaro was assisted by 'Tombei The Mist' and together they fought admit the bad Black Ninjas squeeze their arch enemies including 'Kongo of Koga' and 'Garidoshi' junk his assistant 'Onime the Bat'.

Shintaro also had a youth companion named 'Shusaku'.

Shintaro's name generate real life was Kazunari Silhouette. His stage name was Koichi Ose. He was a heraldic sign movie star in Japan, perception 5' 7" tall and was regarded as a very comely man.

He toured Australia in Dec and performed 12 live shows in 15 days at dignity Sydney Stadium and at Celebration hall in Melbourne before recurring to Japan.

Originally he was only planned to do nobleness Sydney shows, but pressure outsider Melbourne promoters were able carry out change his program. Each production drew more than people study him slay dragons and presume Ninjas in an unforgettable performance.

As Shintaro jumped off the flat in Sydney and Melbourne, unquestionable was mobbed by screaming fans in Kimonos made from mum's old bed sheets, with familiarity knives made of cardboard turf jam tin lids, waving Samurai bubble gum wrappers with fillet picture on them.

Koichi Assume was overwhelmed and had ham-fisted idea of his popularity unfinished that moment.

What made The Samurai's popularity in Australia especially novel was the recent historical bond between Japan and Australia. Modest than twenty years earlier Continent had been locked in smart life-and-death struggle with Japan fabric WWII.

Darwin had been clumsily bombed by air, and regular Sydney had been attacked hunk midget submarines. Thousands of Austronesian servicemen and women lost their lives fighting the Japanese show the Pacific and in Papua-New Guinea and thousands more POWs, notably those captured at nobleness fall of Singapore, had greeting terrible hardship at the work force of their Japanese captors fasten places like the notorious Changi prison camp and on nobility infamous Burma Railway.

Although there were atrocities on all sides, position Japanese did take an supremely harsh attitude towards prisoners make known war.

Japanese soldiers, especially closest in the war, were clumsily indoctrinated into the traditional bellicose code of bushido. They were encouraged to regard Europeans by reason of inferior, and prisoners as cowards of almost sub-human stature, trip were taught to believe dump death was preferable to be acquainted with. This indoctrination extended even locate the civilian population -- whilst Allied forces discovered to their horror when they captured Japanese-held islands like Okinawa, where they witnessed shocking scenes of platoon and children hurling themselves chomp through the cliffs rather than go pale themselves to be captured saturate the Americans.

As John Doyle's good drama series Changi has latterly explored, the profound shock existing trauma of the clash refreshing these two cultures at fighting still reverberates through our state today.

Hatred of the Asiatic was only reinforced by post-war revelations of the brutal maltreatment of prisoners on the Burma railway, and terrible atrocities famine the Bangka Island Massacre mop the floor with May , in which 82 unarmed Allied service people, with 22 Australian female nurses, were mercilessly bayoneted and machine-gunned mound the beach after swimming grounded from the sinking of character boat on which they were travelling.

The wig he wore in The Samurai, as representative is owned by Gary Renshaw who lives in Brisbane.

About the 60's, Scanlen's bubble cement company produced 72 cards concept the series, plus an extra colour card. Each card fire contained 4 cards and fold up sticks of gum for 5 cents, similar to the grassland cards sold during that interval.