{"id":58585,"date":"2018-03-28T17:41:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58585"},"modified":"2018-03-28T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:41:14","slug":"two-koi-fish-the-one-waterfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58585","title":{"rendered":"Two koi fish, the one waterfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a yakuza movie shimmering between American and Japanese ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Is strategy found here?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/QUO-dq-pawn-and-koi-fish.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"625\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/QUO-dq-pawn-and-koi-fish.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/QUO-dq-pawn-and-koi-fish-288x300.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2011311\/\">The Outsider<\/a>, from which I have borrowed the koi quote above &#8212; which gives a riverine equivalent of the steady progress open to a pawn in the strict logic of chess &#8212; the outsider of the title played by <strong>Jared Leto<\/strong> is tatooed with a single koi fish moving up a waterfall, which the woman, enough said, tells him indicates that he is arrogant.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>She, <strong>Miyu<\/strong>, played by <strong>Shioli Kutsuna<\/strong>, has two koi fish &#8212; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/one-swimming-up.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/one-swimming-up.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/one-swimming-up-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/one-swimming-down.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/one-swimming-down.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/one-swimming-down-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film invites your understanding, needlessly, by explaining.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Ah well: how a brush pen readied on an ink-stone resembles a knife blade sharpened on a whet-stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a yakuza movie shimmering between American and Japanese ] . Is strategy found here? In the film, The Outsider, from which I have borrowed the koi quote above &#8212; which gives a riverine equivalent of the steady progress open to a pawn in the strict logic of chess &#8212; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1577,529,67,855,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-chess","category-games","category-movies","category-tao","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58585"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58623,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58585\/revisions\/58623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}