Pacific Overtures1976
Samurai:
The Americans insisted that their mission was a peaceful one. But because we did not know if we could trust them, we chose a samurai whose task it was to muster our defenses. And that samurai was me. I ordered canvas screens to be stretched across the cliffs at Kanagawa. Behind the screens I was able to conceal five thousand armored swordsmen, carrying enormous bows, all of them on horseback. A most impressive force. And with the canvas masking them, our enemy might think that twice as many warriors were assembled. But when the Americans saw our screens they called out from the ships, 'Pull down those drapes! What kind of army hides behind a parlor curtain?' And then they roared with laughter. Most discouraging. I mean, what are you going to do with people like that?
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