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...come a long way in honing his nanba technique. First introduced to him by coach Susumu Takano (whose 1991 Japanese record in the 400-m still stands), Suetsugu's sumo-like stance in the starting block and stunning stride have become his trademarks. Favored by ancient Japanese assassins and swordsmen for minimizing stress on the body, nanba requires practitioners to run with the hand and foot on one side of the body moving in sync. (In normal locomotion, people swing the right arm forward with the left leg.) Out on the track, Suetsugu's stealthy ninja stride makes the traditional...
...Tempting Heart?20:30:40 was a tough sell. "Women's projects are never very hot," she says. "People hear 'Sylvia Chang' and they think, 'Ugh, women's film.'" But Chang insisted there was an audience for a Chinese movie that didn't show triads or flying swordsmen. With the help of $300,000 from a Taiwan government-sponsored film fund and backing from Columbia Pictures Asia, Chang was able to start filming, though she had to scale back her original concept of setting the three stories in Beijing, Taiwan and Hong Kong, instead shooting everything in Taipei...
...wouldn’t want to go back to an age of jousting matches and little personal hygiene? Although time machines haven’t yet been invented, there is King Richard’s Faire, which features magicians, musicians, jugglers, fire eaters, swordsmen, soothsayers, vittles, brew, crafts and more. Through Sun., Oct. 26. 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets $22. Faire Site, Rte. 58, South Carver...
...body of lore and connoisseurship attached. The figure who most vividly expressed the relation between culture and the samurai ethos remained a legend long after his death. He was Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645), who wrote a famous text on swordplay (A Book of Five Rings) and reputedly killed 60 swordsmen before his 30th birthday; he then gave up killing in favor of painting and calligraphy. One of his ink paintings is in the show, a swiftly brushed image of a shrike balanced on a branch above a caterpillar that is crawling upward, presumably to its doom. It is a graphic...
...swordsmen also talked about ways to refocus their practices to meet those goals...