by Samurai » Thu Aug 27, 2015 5:18 am
It's just old-timey. Everyone in stage shows tends to stand at angles like that, so the audience can still see them when they talk to each other. You're spoiled by modern electric television.
"The sign of a matured samurai is calmness, not skill. A samurai should therefore be neither pompous nor arrogant." ~Tsukahara Bokuden