Foreign Metal Samurai

[Mulboyne]

"Metal Samurai" will be the first drama available over the net from a new joint venture between Toei Films and Columbia Music Entertainment. Toei wants to expand the audience for samurai drama, particularly aiming at younger generations. "Metal Samurai" is a comedy which stars Jay Coffman as a foreign heavy metal ronin who defeats the bad guys with his guitar despite not speaking Japanese very well. The story is 25 minutes long and will be made available in 5 minute segments next month.

Toei Press Release (Japanese)

[Mulboyne]

Here you go

[Jay Kafka]

Hi,
I'm just wondering how you came upon this gem. Let me know,

-J

[Mulboyne]

I saw the press release and then googled around to grab the image. It's good that you asked because I'd forgotten about this and it looks like a good tongue-in-cheek affair worth tracking down.

[Jay Kafka]

Well, "good" is a bit of an overstatement. -J

[Mulboyne]

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Better late than never. I just noticed that Metal Samurai was nominated as one of the top 100 Japaneseque Modern projects in 2007. It's J079 in the list. J070 is perfumed toilet paper.