Swinsian edit tags6/17/2023 ![]() When the battle begins, the player will only observe, and the winner will be the last team standing. Ninja village movie#Īfter the winner, the player can receive a lot of valuable rewards.Koka was the location for part of 3 Ninjas, a slightly dodgy 1992 kids’ movie you may remember slightly more vaguely than that Japan-set Bond flick. But going further back, the area hosted one of Japan's most prominent schools of ninjutsu-usually translated as "the way of stealth," though nin (忍) literally means forbearance and jutsu (術) means technique. ![]() Hidden away deep in the forest, this was said to be an ideal spot to learn about the arts of espionage, sabotage and infiltration. When we reach Koka we meet Akira Kitazawa, a ninja expert in the process of translating thousands of pages of historical documents into modern-day Japanese in order to give people a better understanding of who this secretive group really were.įirstly, he takes us to the changing room. ![]() What better way to understand their true appearance, mask and all, than by getting dressed up ourselves? At least that’s what we thought. But while the outfits at Koka Village actually do fit the Hollywood mold-and are all the more fun for it-ninja clothing was in fact much more varied. “There is no such thing as a ninja costume,” says Kitazawa. “Think about it: if there were, people would recognize them far too easily. They had something known as shichi-hode (seven disguises), where they would appear in various forms, such as peasants, travelers, salesman of medical goods, and so on.” They basically wore clothes like everybody else. He describes them as a “vigilante group who lived in a feudal system with a strict class divide and therefore tried hard to make their lives better by any means possible.” Kitazawa also dismisses the notion that ninja were deadly assassins or secret agents who would constantly eliminate enemies, but does allude to their difference from more "chivalrous" samurai, whom they are not to be confused with. So where did this depiction of them as brutal killers come from? According to Kitazawa, it goes back over 400 years.
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