Word: samurais
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...Doesn't Want to Go. "The horse is a splendid animal, but the cow is irregular. You can make more out of it," he said. In an early self-portrait of himself as a golfer, he made himself look like a Japanese war lord, his mashie like a samurai sword...
...Hollywood version of the Kurosawa story, the seven samurai become seven Texas gunmen (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter). One day. Bravo Brynner is approached by some Mexican farmers who offer him everything they have if he will protect their village from a bandit chieftain (Eli Wallach). Unexpectedly moved, he accepts their minuscule fee, recruits the other six, and together they ride out on their errand of mercy. Why? Not one of them is really sure until the bandit gang is wiped out and the three surviving gunmen say farewell. "You have...
...Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, tore his bed sheet into strips, knotted them into a rope, stood up on a toilet bowl and hanged himself from the light fixture in the ceiling. Yamaguchi, who last month stabbed Socialist Chairman Inejiro Asanuma to death at a political rally, had lived his bloody samurai tradition to the end. His suicide was an act of owabi-apology to those inconvenienced by his murder of Asanuma...
...like blade a foot long. Catching sight of the youth racing toward him, Asanuma raised his left hand, almost as in a benediction. Then his eyes widened and his mouth opened in horror when he turned his head and saw the sword. Holding the sword in a two-handed samurai-style grip, the youth rammed into Asanuma like a blocking back, plunging the blade deep into Asanuma's 225-lb. bulk. It pierced his lower abdomen and liver. The thudding collision sent Asanuma's speech notes sailing through the air, jarred off the student's glasses. Then...
...calmly identified himself as Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, told detectives his only regret was failing to kill Communist Sanzo Nosaka and Japan Teachers' Union Chairman Takeshi Kobayashi as well as Asanuma. He had planned to bag all three. The sword, he explained, was a wakizashi, the kind worn by samurai until 1876, when the government forbade people to carry them. He had found it only the week before in the bottom of his father's closet...