Samurai sword treasure trove found by undersea exploration company. Women to play central roles in a webcast and televised rescue mission. An interactive online feature will also enable other global demographics to observe and participate.
Kennesaw, GA (PR WEB) -- Fans of blockbuster films The Last Samurai, Kill Bill and Die Another Day rejoice. Coming soon to a computer and mobile phone near you: hundreds of discovered Samurai swords. An exploration company has identified a treasure trove of Samurai swords and is preparing a deep-sea retrieval operation. Associated European firms will co-produce streams of interactive broadband content (including games) for wireless, Internet, cable, satellite and teen mobile markets.
At the end of the Pacific War in 1945 certain Allied forces disarmed and repatriated a large unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that had fiercely fought on until the Emperors order to surrender. Later, and just before boarding ships bound for Japan, hundreds of officers (many of them Samurai descendents) were forced at gunpoint to discard their warrior-class bladed weapons. Those battle swords were loaded onto a nearby captured boat that was towed out to sea and scuttled.
The exploration company Ferrumar has acquired a Japanese eyewitnesss account of the incident as well as an annotated nautical chart showing where the antiquities-loaded craft sank. Due to the heirlooms provenance and types (‘katana long blades and ‘wakizashi short blades) the firm expects its expedition to find many Kokuho," or national treasures, each reportedly worth US$ 500,000 to 1m-plus at auction, plus numerous other culturally significant swords.
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This unusual and premium discovery will be televised and webcast, and a documentary will be produced on the artifact rescue operation.
Prior to the expedition Ferrumar will host a global interactive competition that may include, among others, stars from three recent Samurai sword-featuring films: Lucy Liu, Julie Dreyfus and Uma Thurman in Kill Bill; Koyuki in The Last Samurai; Rosamund Pike and Halle Berry from Die Another Day. Only online and mobile female viewers will elect one woman (who they feel best embodies the warrior spirit") to become the expeditions spokeswoman and film narrator.
Ferrumar
In the early 1990s the privately held intellectual capital and new media content firm developed a deepwater venture (with Japanese foundation, university and government support) to salvage from Japans territorial waters former President George Bushs sunken World War II aircraft. That project was cancelled after Mr. Bushs defeat in the 1992 Presidential Election.
Once the Samurai swords recovery mission is completed each fine-art object will be conserved for auction or private-treaty sale. However, Ferrumar will make the rarest available to Japanese museums and their corporate patrons.
Contact Information:
Jim Egan, Director
Ferrumar
+001.770.427.6546
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Background:
· Tokugawa Museum -- http://www.cjn.or.jp/tokugawa/english/
· Japanese Sword Museum -- http://www.tcvb.or.jp/en/infomation/5museum/23sword.html
· Academy Awards -- http://www.oscar.com/
· Kill Bill -- http://www.kill-bill.com/
· Die Another Day -- http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=newsmaker&id=99
· The Last Samurai -- http://lastsamurai.warnerbros.com/
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