The Samurai from Twickenham The Soma Wild Horse Chase Narrator
Michael Dean
Michael Jay is an Englishman born, as he says, ' in the wrong place at the wrong time'. He's a 35-year-old airline pilot from Twickenham, whose obsessive interest lies on the other side of the world, in Japan. Having won his black belt in judo, he became deeply involved in the martial arts of that exclusive warrior class, the Samurai. For ten years he has practised the skills of sword and horsemanship.
Married into a Japanese family, he is now accepted by the descendants of the fighting horsemen of the Soma region as a Samurai himself -indeed, he has become the only foreigner to take part in The Soma Wild Horse Chase. It is an event that dates back 1,000 years to the days when the warriors rode out to round up the wild horses. Today the ' Chase ' continues the tradition of the great Samurai battles of centuries past.
Producer TONY SALMON
Series editors ANTHONY Isaacs , PETER JONES