Well, for example, the American Captain Algren becoming as skilled, if not more so, as some of the top swordsmen of the Samurai rebellion in under a year. While he may have been previously trained by the American army and may have had a talent for fighting, I find it hard to believe that he'll become as proficient in that style of swordsmanship as the people who had spent the majority of their lives training. He manages, in one scene to kill four or five ronin assassins by himself and in another to best a number of ninja
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The ronin thing can be argued because although ronin is defined as a "masterless samurai" it can also mean someone with a minimum amount of bushido training and an attitude - a thug, if you will. If someone were to train for hours each day (more training than sleep) or at least more than the ronin they would stand a good chance at beating them. The ninja thing seems a less believable because the nature of ninja doesn't really promote confrontations but I'm biased.
Yeah...but in this movie a mini-army of ninja attacked the samurai village.
I guess I can see him beating the four or five ronin he did, but I just imagined if the Japanese railroad owner wanted him dead, he'd send someone with some skill.
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The ronin thing can be argued because although ronin is defined as a "masterless samurai" it can also mean someone with a minimum amount of bushido training and an attitude - a thug, if you will. If someone were to train for hours each day (more training than sleep) or at least more than the ronin they would stand a good chance at beating them. The ninja thing seems a less believable because the nature of ninja doesn't really promote confrontations but I'm biased.
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I guess I can see him beating the four or five ronin he did, but I just imagined if the Japanese railroad owner wanted him dead, he'd send someone with some skill.
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