Great documentary on Miyamoto Musashi, the greatest Samurai ever and a strong candidate for the title of most vicious man ever.
Musashi killed his first man at the age of 13 with a Bokuto(wood sword) hitting him in the head until his grey matter was all splattered on the ground like spaggheti. At the age of 30, he had won over 30 duels to the death. He took part in many battles for many Shogun but always remained a mercenary with no loyalty, and he killed many of his lords to get rid of them...
Once, he tested his new sword on a woman he found walking the opposite side of the road he was one. She had two kids. He told her he would test his sword on her, but that he would spare her children. So he tied her upside down on a tree and spent the next hour slicing her body with his sword. Then when he was done, he told her that he would kill her children anyway. So he beheaded the kids in front of her, to her shock and horror. Finally, he tested the tip of his sword(until that point he had only tested the blade) on the woman's eyes, bliding her. Then he left her upside down to bleed to death completely blind, with the image of her kids being beheaded as the last image of her life.
Musashi then became kind of a philosopher in his late life, and wrote the "Book Of Five Rings", a classic of military strategy and of outhtinking your opponents.
There have been other men as vicious and perverse as Musashi, but he combined a sadistic taste for destruction and torture of others with utter pittilessness and remorselessness that is unheard of. Even Genghis Khan, as ruthless as he was, did not rejoice as much in vile torture and destruction of others as Musashi. And even Vlad Tepes, who inpaled people in the ass to death, still tried to justify what he was doing as for the "greater good", and in many cases he gave mercy death to opponents who were impaled because he was shocked by their pain and agony. Not Musashi. He didn't need to justify anything: he liked it. A lot. And he did it with the same contentment and indifference a toodler has in smashing ants.
A really, really bad man. He was what the British call in polite society a "bastard", an individual who is
completely and utterly vile with
no redeeming qualities. Actually, he did have the redeeming quality of being very brave, but unfortunately he used it only for his own benefit, like all psychopaths do, since the hallmark of the psychopath is self-centeredness.
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