Hattori Hanzō
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Sep 6, 2026
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them.
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Yeah, I would have actually made them into Hattori Hanzo's or Kyoto Steel swords.
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Kyoto
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Steel.
Al GattulloHOST
Uma Thurman.
Al GattulloHOST
When she's fighting, you know, when Hanzo Hattori is making the sword for her, she's training and the whole thing.
Al GattulloHOST
Right, right,
Joe PiscopoHOST
right.
Dan JonesHOST
And so she slays pretty much all of them with her.
Dan JonesHOST
I think she has a Hattori Hanzo sword by this point.
Dan JonesHOST
Never mind the specifics of Kill Bill 1.
Dan JonesHOST
This is sort of graphic overkill for entertainment.
Rob BaerHOST
And it's actually carbon steel, which I kind of found shocking.
Rob BaerHOST
It's not Hattori Hanzo steel, but what is, right? Who gets that? Anyways, so the very first thing I did was I extended it out.
Rob BaerHOST
And by the way, Harold, put this up to the mic.
Rob BaerHOST
This is a precision instrument.
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To return home, Ieyasu needed to cross through Iga, the mountain province of the shinobi clans.
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At a moment when the roads were flooded with the chaos of political transition and the very real possibility of assassination by agents loyal to Mitsuhide, it was a coca shinobi commander named Hattori Hanzo who organized and personally led the escort that brought Ieyasu safely through that passage.
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Moving through terrain that conventional samurai escorts could not have navigated securely, using routes, safe houses, and local knowledge that only the Iga and Koka networks possessed, Hanzo's operation delivered one of the most consequential figures in Japanese history, from certain death to safety.
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Without that crossing, there is no Tokugawa shogunate.
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There is no 300-year peace.
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The entire architecture of early modern Japan pivots, at least in part, on the skill of a shinobi commander, guiding a future ruler through the dark.
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Hattori Hanzo would be rewarded with a position in Ieyasu's personal guard.
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And his name would endure in Japanese culture for centuries, romanticized, mythologized, eventually given a second life in global popular imagination by filmmakers who understood instinctively that his story contained something archetypal.
Chris Ray GunHOST
Oh, jeez, you're right.
Chris Ray GunHOST
Hattori Hanzo.
Tom SweeneyHOST
That's crazy.
Tom SweeneyHOST
Speaking of that, speaking of that, it comes out next week.
Chris CabinHOST
Oh.
Andrew JupinHOST
Fucking Hattori Hanzo down there.
Stephen SajdakHOST
Listen, I watch the Chopped of sword making quite a bit.
Chris CabinHOST
Sure.
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RealDoll expert Slade Fero has been repairing dolls for 10 years from his home in California.
PhilionHOST
Holy shit, this is the Hattori Hanzo of RealDolls.
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Dolls come from far and wide for some much needed care and attention.
Slade FeroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[hammer thudding] Love it when they fit together like that.
Russ RollinsHOST
That thing is-
Ryan HolmesHOST
Is it a Hattori Hanzo?
Russ RollinsHOST
I don't know what that means, but I know it, it'll cut you up, that's for sure.
Ryan HolmesHOST
Okay.
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