These days I’ve been working on how to present little clips of the interviews in this site. It has taken me some time to figure out how to edit the videos, which codecs to use, how to insert the subtitles and then burn them into the video file before uploading… Wow, it has been kind of hard, especially for me: I’m just a translator, not a video expert!
Anyway, I’ve done this to set up the working system I’ll use from now on, and I’m quite satisfied with the results. This is the first interview video I post, and this will be the only one for a little while as I need to select more clips and get approvals from the Japanese side to post them.
In this video, samurai gekiga master Hiroshi Hirata talks about the difference between a samurai and a bushi. It’s really interesting! Hirata, 73, has been living in the Izu peninsula for 20 years or so and he is really a fascinating person, to say the least! I was welcome to this house with my wife and baby daughter, and we even spend the night there, having dinner with the Hiratas, one of their sons and three of their adorable little granddaughters. By the way, you’ll see in the video that Hirata-sensei puts his hand behind his ear all the time. He is quite hearing impaired since he went to Hawaii some years ago and toyed with guns at a shooting range… And he refuses to use any hearing aid! Old stubborn bushi Kōshizaemon-dono! More about Hirata on more posts.
(Also on Vimeo, if you prefer)
[...] of Manga, translator and manga expert Marc Bernabé posts a video interview with gekiga master Hiroshi Hinata, best known to American audiences for Satsuma Gishiden. Also new at Masters of Manga: a video clip [...]
That was really interesting. Looking forward to the Urasawa and YAS interviews!
A little bit of patience and you’ll see those interviews, at least parts of them! Thank you for your comment.
Great blog post.Really looking forward to read more.
Keep coming, you’ll see more!
[...] Comic empezaban a apuntar específicamente a este público, y allí se nombraba constantemente a Hirata y sus peculiares [...]
Mes remerciements à propos de ce blog, ce contenu m’a vraiment énormément interessé. Grace à cet écrit j’ai énormément appris de nouvelles choses que j’ignorais.
[...] in hyperrealistic samurai comics. In 2010 Marc Bernabé interviewed him for his documentary project “Masters of Manga”; Hirata still draws at the age of 70+ and keeps an ancient Japanese helmet over his drawing-desk. [...]
Yes, I wondered about the difference. This video is the clearest answer I found when I Googled it.
The reason why I was checking, is because I want to draw one of them for a slideshow that I’m making of different hero charcters. Can I ask is there a slight difference between the clothing of a samurai and a bushi? And if so, what is the difference in the way the two dress?
Thank you in advance.