He is portrayed as evil or megalomaniacal in the anime / manga Samurai Deeper Kyo and Flame of Recca.

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.

Ninja appear in many forms of Japanese and Western popular media, including books ( Kōga Ninpōchō ), television ( Ninja Warrior ), movies ( You Only Live Twice, Ninja Assassin, The Last Samurai ), Satire ( REAL Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book ) video games ( Tenchu, Shinobi ), anime ( Naruto ), manga ( Basilisk ) and Western comic books ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and G. I.

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

Similarly, the ronin Jin is a major character and protagonist in the popular Japanese anime Samurai Champloo.

* Mugen, from the anime series Samurai Champloo

* In the anime Samurai Champloo, the baseball catcher doll in episode 23 (" Baseball Blues ") has a henohenomeheji on its face.

The first " action " series was the anime Afro Samurai, which aired on May 4, 2007 alongside a new UK animated show Modern Toss.

He is known for directing the critically and commercially successful anime series Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo.

His next directorial effort was the anime television series Samurai Champloo which began broadcasting on Fuji TV in Japan on May 19, 2004.

Subsequent to The Sky Crawlers, Oshii wrote the screenplay to the Production I. G film Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai, which has been described as possibly the first ever anime documentary.

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Samurai Pizza Cats, known as in Japan, is an anime series produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Sotsu Agency.

But according to an interview with the game's producer, Ryota Niitsuma said that " One of the main anime we got more requests for than any others was Samurai Pizza Cats ," he said.

Immortal Grand Prix ( IGPX ), created by Toonami producers Sean Akins and Jason DeMarco and produced by anime studio Production I. G, aired in five short installments and served as a pilot for the second Toonami original series, which premiered in November 2005 ( a brief note: although Megas XLR was the first original American-made franchise to actually debut on the block, it was initially a Cartoon Network original that was planned to air on Friday nights ; other Cartoon Network action properties, namely Samurai Jack, Teen Titans, and Justice League, aired on Toonami but weren't exclusive to the block until their final seasons ).

* Justice, the main antagonist in the anime Afro Samurai

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Now with the released fourth season of the Metal Fight Beyblade series, Metal Fight Beyblade Zero-G, a toy line which consists of Beyblades from the anime including Samurai Ifraid W145CF, MSF Shinobi Saramanda SW145SD, MSF Pirates Orojya 145D, Thief Phoenic E230GCF, Guardian Reviser 160SB, MSF Archer Gryph C145S, Pirates Killerken A230JSB, and many more are being released in Asia.

* Ikitsuki was featured in the fictional anime series Samurai Champloo created by Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop fame.

Hanzō also appears in the novel Fukurō no Shiro ( Owl's Castle ), later made into two feature films ( including Owls ' Castle ), in the manga and anime series Gin Tama, Naruto, Samurai Deeper Kyo and Tail of the Moon, and in the live-action film Goemon, and was featured in an episode " Spartan vs. Ninja " of the TV show Deadliest Warrior.

Hattori Hanzō appears as a recurring character in the Samurai Shodown video game series, appearing in every game in the series, in the anime film and in some guest apparances in the KOF series.

The light novel and anime series Hyakka Ryōran Samurai Girls and the anime series Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox both feature Hattori Hanzō as a female ninja character.

The adult Sarutobi Sasuke is a character in the anime and manga series Samurai Deeper Kyo, in which he serves Sanada Yukimura as the leader of the Ten Braves-the same role he has in the manga and anime Brave 10 and in the film Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born !.

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 ).

For instance The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and A Fistful of Dollars was a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which itself was inspired by Red Harvest, an American detective novel by Dashiell Hammett.

Multiple scenes attempted in Major Dundee, including slow motion action sequences ( inspired by Akira Kurosawa's work in Seven Samurai ), characters leaving a village as if in a funeral procession and the use of inexperienced locals as extras, would be perfected in The Wild Bunch.

His life inspired the movie The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe.

This battle inspired the final scenes of the 2003 movie, The Last Samurai.

Included in the unseen longer cuts were several slow-motion battle scenes which were inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

It was written and directed by Rashid Nugmanov and was inspired by The Magnificent Seven, an American remake of Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai.

Ian Bottomley in his book " Arms and Armor of the Samurai: The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan " shows a picture of a kusari armour and mentions kusari katabira ( chain jackets ) with detachable arms being worn by samurai police officials during the Edo period.

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 ).

Bushido, Samurai Saga by Tadashi Imai won the Golden Bear at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.

Yoji Yamada, director of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, made a trilogy of acclaimed revisionist samurai films, 2002's Twilight Samurai, followed by The Hidden Blade in 2004 and Love and Honor in 2006.

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.

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

The child emperor ( portrayed by a puppet manipulated by his advisors ) reacts with pleasure to the departure of the Americans, promoting Lord Abe to Shogun, Kayama to Governor of Uraga and Manjiro to the rank of Samurai.

Photek is also influenced by traditional Japanese music and culture, with song titles as " Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu ( 2 Swords Technique )" ( named after the Hyoho Niten Ichi-ryu technique ) and " The Seven Samurai " ( named after the movie of the same name ).

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.

Director John Sturges took Seven Samurai and adapted it to the Old West, with the Samurai replaced by gunslingers.

The Magnificent Seven a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai.

* Samurai are banned from carrying swords in Japan and their stipends are replaced by one-time grants of income-bearing bonds.

An ice-pick type leucotome forms part of the detail around the " S " of the film's title, counterpoised by the final upright of the " H " being a Samurai sword.

This word dates from the Muromachi period, and was possibly coined when the word " 切る = kiru ( cut ), the culinary step, was considered too inauspicious to be used by anyone other than Samurai.

Primary research into Bushidō was later conducted by William Scott Wilson in his 1982 text Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors.

* Training the Samurai Mind: A Bushido Sourcebook by Thomas Cleary 288 pages Shambhala ( May 13, 2008 ) ISBN 1-59030-572-8 ISBN 978-1590305720

* The Religion of the Samurai ( 1913 original text ), by Kaiten Nukariya, 2007 reprint by ELPN Press ISBN 0-9773400-7-4

* Ultima Online: Gold ( 18 July 2005 ) was a special release sold by Wal-Mart and includes the same content as Ultima Online: Samurai Empire.