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TIL that The Samurai was a Japanese series that was dubbed and aired in Australia, the first Japanese program to ever screen in the country. It became so popular that when lead actor Ose Koichi visited Melbourne, he was greeted by a crowd larger than that which had greeted The Beatles in 1964.

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