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Japan mistake.

posted 16 years ago by codemaster107
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Japan fighter souldn't have been a sumo fighter, but a practioner of ninjitsu. A practioner of this style would have killed every fighter there, including John claude's charater. The only possible reason why this kind of fighter wasn't chosen is 1. The director never heard of it. 2. The director felt that it would be introducing a too powerful of a fighter or because of the well known fact that practioners of ninjitsu don't like to participate in any kind of tornameant, unless chalanged. It would have benn right thou to have a practioner of ninjitsu as it's japan greatest martial art; and it would have been just amazing to to see a ninja going for peoples presure points, knocking them out this way, maybe even seeing the dim muak,of course the fights would be very short, no flashly moves.
Here's some videos of ninjitsu. I didn't post these video's so you know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMOTWHnd9X0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssd7NxaQHZQ&feature=related

[–] Robbmonster 9 years ago

Learn your history.

'Ninjitsu' is a rather modern invention.

And as for point number 1, implying 'The director never heard of it' says much more about your own ignorance than that of 'the director' (Van Damme himself).

Never defend crap with 'It's just a movie'
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[–] the_bamboo_spear 8 years ago

Ninjutsu as practiced today is more of an amalgamation of old methods of Kempo and Taijutsu, traditional Japanese Jujutsu, bujutsu arts such as sword, spear, bo, kodachi, etc, with some aspects of old ninja arts, such as reading the weather, landscape, bumon / shumon (military and spiritual arts), heiho and things dealing with fortifications and military tactics, intelligence gathering and things like that.

But most of it is pretty well-known stuff today, things you'd learn in the Boy Scouts or Army Basic Training. The ninja, however, are very well documented in Japanese history, but pretty different from the modern image.