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Tuta's avatar

Here we also have an example of quite a romantic "kunoichi", most likely well trained in singing and dancing in order to get close to potential targets: https://theotherice.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/shinobi-koi-translation/

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Rob Tuck's avatar

“Shinobu koi” (hidden love) as a trope goes all the way back to Heian waka poetry, if I remember rightly. Everything that was old is now new again.

Also, I recall that Okuse Heishichirō claimed repeatedly that seductress-kunoichi had to be managed carefully by their male handlers so that the women didn’t fall in love with the targets they were supposed to be entrapping. I wonder if that’s what’s going on here?

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Tuta's avatar

Yeah, could be :)

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Nico Vazquez's avatar

Definitely check out Kunoichi Ninpocho Yagyu Gaiden, especially if you ever plan on writing an article deconstructing the Yagyu connection to shinobi. The movie is a lot less "ninja magic porn" and more of a "warped chanbara movie with Hong Kong wuxia-esque wire work and the same strange woman ninja magic characteristic of the Kunoichi Ninpocho movies".

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Rob Tuck's avatar

“warped chanbara movie with Hong Kong wuxia-esque wire work and the same strange woman ninja magic characteristic of the Kunoichi Ninpocho movies"

That might well be the single greatest sentence ever written in the English language.

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