period pretty much before NUMBER_TOKEN uh we have what we call the warring states period uh which is exactly feudal japan with feudal warfare and in feudal warfare most of the combatants are not of noble birth and japanese swords at that time would have been made uh often enough not made very well and handed out to low ranking troops and collected back after the battle because uh as any feudal society goes you don't want to arm too many peasants or too many scoundrels who rob you on the highway after the war now with a little bit that i do understand traditionally the sword fights would have been very quick one or two moves and that's about it not like what we see in hollywood is that right that is about right throughout history and throughout geography that is not unique to japan either however in japan specifically we know a lot about the martial arts schools that develop during the edo period the peace period and those schools specifically train on the most cost-effective way of winning a duel after all at the end of the warring states period they became a need for the samurai to codify the martial arts and show off in front of each other defending their honor and the defense of that honor usually meant showing how cultured you are within your martial arts school as well but doesn't that sound like the exact opposite that we see in the movie snake eyes well yes and no you see in the movie tenji tanagaki a true artist of martial arts choreography had a very uh unique problem to movie making industry and that is he has to use the foundation of traditional martial arts as he knows them and adapt them to the theatrical grandiose flair of blockbuster industry so he had to update it to modern imagination of what fight scenes and special ops actually look like and give it a james bond big secret feel with car races and guns and swords and motorcycles he had to incorporate all of that without at the same time trivializing the use of the sword at all now am i correct you brought along with you a clip that shows behind the scenes look at that exact challenge and what they had to do to get over it right yes indeed and in the clip you will see how strenuous it is to adapt your body to perform acrobatics and movie martial arts choreography all right well let's go ahead and take a look at that clip now
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