The last official game by SNK for the Neo Geo system, Samurai Shodown V Special, was released in 2004.

Nobunaga is portrayed as evil, villainous, bloodthirsty, and / or demonic in the video games: Ninja Master's, Sengoku ( 1991 ), Inindo: Way of the Ninja, Atlantica Online, Sengoku Basara ( and anime ), and the two video game series Onimusha and Samurai Warriors.

* Seven Samurai 20XX – PlayStation 2 video game ( 2004 )

* Ultima Online: Samurai Empire ( 2 November 2004 ) brought ancient Japanese mythology and folklore to the game, two new classes ( Ninja and Samurai ) and a new area to explore, the Tokuno Islands.

* Asura is the main character in the Japanese arcade video game Samurai Shodown: Warrior's Rage.

* Shuzen Fujimori, a character in the 2008 video game Way of the Samurai 3

In the video game Way of the Samurai the main character Kenji is a Ronin who wanders the village of Rokkotsu Pass, creating his own destiny.

Soul Edge is the second 3D fighting game to feature characters that fight with weapons ( the first being Battle Arena Toshinden ), although putting weapons in fighters was not a new concept ( Samurai Shodown is a notable example of a 2D fighter with weapons ).

The video game Samurai Warriors 2 features a mini-game named Sugoroku, but it bears very little resemblance to the above described games.

If one player lands on a space purchased by another, they must pay a fee to that player, or else can choose to challenge the player for control of that space ( utilising the main Samurai Warriors 2 game engine for special challenge games ).

There was also a computer game called Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC platforms in 1988, by the now defunct computer game label Firebird.

In December 2006, Sabertooth Games released a King of Fighters 2006 collectable card game set along with Samurai Shodown V for its Universal Fighting System ( UFS ) game.

* Saya, a video game character in Samurai Shodown

* He also appears in the Koei game series Samurai Warriors.

* Musashi: Samurai Legend, a 2005 PlayStation 2 video game

* Samurai Warriors, Samurai Warriors 2, and Samurai Warriors 3 ( as well as an Xtreme Legends expansion to both, and Empires expansion to 2, a PSP game, Samurai Warriors: State of War, and Samurai Warriors: Katana for the Wii.

Shiro Amakusa is a recurring character in the Samurai Shodown series of fighting games, featured as both a boss ( in the first Samurai Shodown game, which is loosely based on the Shimabara Rebellion ) and a selectable character, in which he is both a mad and vengeful spirit resurrected as a being of destruction, and a being seeking for redemption ; his evil side is Aku Amakusa.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

In particular, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai has been remade several times as Western films, such as The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) and Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ), and has also inspired several Bollywood films, such as Sholay ( 1975 ) and China Gate ( 1998 ).

Recurring mechanisms in his games include auctions ( Ra and Modern Art ), tile placement ( Tigris and Euphrates and Ingenious ), and intricate scoring rules ( Samurai ).

The most notable archetypes are Street Samurai, characters who have heavily augmented their bodies with cyberware and bioware and focus on physical combat ; Adepts, characters who have magical abilities that increase their physical ( and sometimes mental ) combat abilities ; Faces, highly charismatic characters who specialize in negotiations and social manipulation ; Hackers ( aka Deckers ), specialize in electronic surveillance, security, and augmented / virtual reality monitoring, combat and response ; Riggers, who augment their brains to achieve fine control over vehicles and drones ; and Magicians who cast spells and can view emotions and call spirits from astral space.

* SA ( Samurai Attack ), a Japanese punk rock band

Its influence can be most strongly felt in the western The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ), a film specifically adapted from Seven Samurai.

At three hours, twenty-seven minutes ( 207 minutes ), Seven Samurai would be the longest picture of Kurosawa's career.

Academy Award winning Japanese director Akira Kurosawa produced Yojimbo ( 1961 ), and Sanjuro ( 1962 ), which both starred Toshirō Mifune as a mysterious Samurai swordsman for hire.

* Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Translated by William Scott Wilson, Kondansha International Ltd., 1979, ISBN 4-7700-1106-7 ( Partial translation )

Samurai ( 1979 ), Shadow Warriors ( 1980 ), Samurai Reincarnation ( 1981 ).

Samurai ( 1979 ) as Lt. Yoshiaki Iba and Fights Choreographer

The game was produced for Irem by Takashi Nishiyama, who also created Irem's arcade-hit Moon Patrol, and later designed the original Street Fighter at Capcom before leaving to run SNK's videogame development division, creating the Neo Geo arcade system board and its games like Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, Art of Fighting, The King of Fighters ' 94, and Samurai Shodown there, as well as several of their successors.

In 1955, Hiroshi Inagaki won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Part I of his Samurai trilogy and in 1958 won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Rickshaw Man.

Katsuyuki Sumizawa ( Yoroiden Samurai Troopers ) wrote the scenario for the series and was one of three official script-writers, along with Akemi Omode and Katsuhiko Chiba.

Following artistic success and critical acclaim in the American independent film community, he achieved mainstream renown with his far-East philosophical crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, shot in Jersey City and starring Forest Whitaker as a young inner-city man who has found purpose for his life by unyieldingly conforming it to the Hagakure, an 18th-century philosophy text and training manual for samurai, becoming, as directed, a terrifyingly deadly hit-man for a local mob boss to whom he may owe a debt, and who then betrays him.

Morris records regular radio shows for the Japanese internet radio station Samurai FM.

Several popular franchise-series, including Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown, were released for the platform.

These include Ironclad, Crossed Swords 2, Oshidashi Zentrix, ADK World, Neo Geo CD Special, The King of Fighters ' 96 Neo Collection and Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushidō Retsuden ( an RPG spin-off of the Samurai Shodown series that also released for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn ).

Samurai were rewarded for their loyalty with land, which was in turn, on the liege lord's permission, handed down and divided among their sons.

Seven Samurai is described as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, and is one of a select few Japanese films to become widely known in the West for an extended period of time.

The single largest undertaking by a Japanese filmmaker at the time, Seven Samurai was a technical and creative watershed that became Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry.

* The website of William Scott Wilson A 2005 recipient of the Japanese Government's Japan ’ s Foreign Minister ’ s Commendation, William Scott Wilson was honored for his research on Samurai and Bushidō.

Movie poster for Seven Samurai

This is particularly true for films that are remade from films produced in another language, such as: Point of No Return ( from the French Nikita ), Vanilla Sky ( from the Spanish Abre los ojos ), The Magnificent Seven ( from the Japanese Seven Samurai ), A Fistful of Dollars ( from the Japanese Yojimbo ), The Departed ( from Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs ), and Let Me In ( from the Swedish film Let the Right One In or Låt den rätte komma in ).

It also bears some parallels with the American Westerns ; Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, for example, was remade in a Western setting as The Magnificent Seven.

The new episodes, which ran for two more seasons, had a different production team than the originals since Genndy Tartakovsky was busy working on Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars ( MacFarlane and Hartman had left Time Warner altogether at this point, focusing on Family Guy and The Fairly OddParents, respectively ).

Bass provider for multiple English dubs of anime including Samurai Champloo, though left uncredited.

He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo.

To prepare for Seven Samurai and Rashomon, Mifune reportedly studied footage of lions in the wild ; for Ánimas Trujano, he studied tapes of Mexican actors speaking, so he could recite all his lines in Spanish.