Talk:Inu-Oh

Plot
This movie is on Hulu with English subtitles, and the plot article written seems to have gone a few games of telephone.

For example, I will try to recall what the subtitles said for Inu-Oh's first performance about the Tale of the Mount of Arms's Persimmon Tree, where the routed Heike abandoned their slain commander and drowned when thousands tried to board an over-loaded ship. Those already aboard tried to selfishly save themselves by cutting off the arms of those in the sea clinging on the sides trying to climb on, but the ship took on water and sank anyway. Later the commander's guard returned to retrieve his body, but find only an arm - ergo they collect it and all the cut-off arms washing ashore into a burial mount as a sign of penance. The mount sprouts a persimmon tree with arms hanging from its branches due to the cruelty witnessed that day. So the tree was trimmed bare ever since to stop it from sprouting arms.

Meanwhile, in the article's plot section it says "Inu-Oh dances to the music, telling a story of how the Heike soldiers tied their arms to their ships but then lost all the arms when their ships sank"

Are the subtitles on Hulu's version right? Because nowhere it said anything about tying arms to a boat and am wondering if the subtitles are more of an interpretation that direct translation to match the story on the screen. I cannot verify how much the subtitles changed in English from the original since I am not a Japanese speaker.

Or is the plot in the article wrong? 50.203.253.60 (talk) 21:01, 25 April 2023 (UTC)