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A day in the life of a teenage samurai - Constantine N. Vaporis

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The year is 1800 in the castle town of Kôchi, Japan. It’s just after sunrise, and 16-year-old Mori Banshirô is already hard at work practicing drills with his long sword. He is an ambitious samurai in training, and today he must impress his teachers more than ever so he can travel to the capital city for martial and scholarly studies. Constantine N. Vaporis outlines a day in the life of a samurai.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Constantine N. Vaporis
Director
WOW-HOW Studio
Narrator
Adrian Dannatt
Storyboard Artist
Nikita Bondarenko, Sergey Yaroshenko
Animator
Alex Bohdan
Art Director
Marianna Murashko
WOW-HOW Studio Producer
Daria Kachan , Tatiana Koroleva
Music
Stephen LaRosa
Sound Designer
Stephen LaRosa
Director of Production
Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Director
Alex Rosenthal
Producer
Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Editorial Producer
Elizabeth Cox
Script Editor
Alex Gendler
Fact-Checker
Eden Girma

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