From popular social sharing website Reddit comes word of Isao Machii, a Japanese "modern samurai" whose skills with the sword are the stuff of an otherwise believable Kurosawa film. Draped in traditional samurai garb and clutching a razor thin katana he can cleanly slice even the most seemingly unassailable targets with a flick of the wrist.
See him deflect a speeding BB gun bullet on Stan Lee's Superhumans, a show on the History Channel:
Unconvinced? Watch a Japanese TV show's special where the hosts put Isao machii to great practical use, from slicing an asparagus horizontally to slashing an incoming arrow in half: