* Date Masamune is often portrayed as using a bokken as his main weapon in several media he has appeared in, such as Samurai Deeper Kyo and the original Samurai Warriors.

Many other titles contain in-game depictions of graffiti ( such as The Darkness, Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone, NetHack, Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked, The World Ends with You, The Warriors, Just Cause, Portal, various examples of Virtual Graffiti, etc .).

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.

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

* William Scott Wilson, Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors ( Kodansha, 1982 ) ISBN 0-89750-081-4

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 ).

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

He is represented as a character in both the Sengoku Basara and Samurai Warriors series.

He appears as a cultured and soft speaking psychopath with a white painted face in Samurai Warriors 2.

The company has also found mainstream success in a series of loosely historical action games, the flagship titles of which are Dynasty Warriors ( 真 ・ 三國無双 ( Shin-Sangoku Musō )) and Samurai Warriors ( 戦国無双 ( Sengoku Musō )), the Musō ( 無双 ) series.

* Dynasty Warriors: Gundam For the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it is based on the mechanics of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors, only using the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise as its base.

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 ).

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 ).

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

Samurai, Terminator 2, The Matrix, Total Recall, Minority Report, The Island, Star Trek, Aliens, I, Robot, Transformers, Equilibrium, District 9, Serenity, Akira, Paycheck, Predator, Robocop, Avatar, Mad Max 2 and The Fifth Element.

* 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.

* Book 2: Samurai

Connolly is also an actor, and has appeared in such films as Indecent Proposal ( 1993 ); Muppet Treasure Island ( 1996 ); Mrs. Brown ( 1997 ), for which he was nominated for a BAFTA ; The Boondock Saints ( 1999 ); The Man Who Sued God ( 2001 ); Water ( 1985 ); The Last Samurai ( 2003 ); Timeline ( 2003 ); Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events ( 2004 ); Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties ( 2006 ); Open Season ( 2006 ); The X-Files: I Want to Believe ( 2008 ); and Open Season 2 ( 2008 ).

2 Stupid Dogs eventually helped launch the careers of creators Genndy Tartakovsky ( Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Sym-Bionic Titan ), Craig McCracken ( The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends ), Butch Hartman ( The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, and T. U. F. F.

Saigō appears as the protagonist in Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai during Japan's Meiji Restoration

On September 27th, 2011, The Creative Assembly released a DLC pack for Total War: Shogun 2 entitled " Rise of the Samurai ", which allows players to play as members of the Taira, the Minamoto, or the Fujiwara families.

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

As of July 2009, Fatal Fury Special, Samurai Shodown II, Metal Slug 3, Garou: Mark of the Wolves and The King of Fighters ' 98 have been released.

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

原田真人 Harada Masato, born July 3, 1949 in Numazu, Shizuoka ) is a Japanese film director, critic, and sometimes an actor ; he is best known to Western audiences as Omura in The Last Samurai and as Mr Mita in Fearless.

* Samurai Warriors 3 as Motonari Mori

Similar to the StarCraft etymology, the term is often altered according to the units involved, such as the Rhino tank rush of Red Alert 2, the Flash tank rush of Total Annihilation, the Samurai Ship rush of Total War: Shogun 2 and the Pitbull rush of Command & Conquer 3.

Gracia appears as a playable character in Koei's Samurai Warriors 2 Xtreme Legends and Samurai Warriors 3 Xtreme Legends.

* Samurai Warriors 3 as Chosokabe Motochika

* Samurai Warriors 3 ( Katō Kiyomasa )

Katō Kiyomasa is a character in the Koei's video games Kessen, Samurai Warriors 2, Samurai Warriors 3, Mōri Motonari: Chikai no Sanya and Age of Empires III.

Since Team Samurai consisted of only 3 people at any one time ( excluding Sam ), only 3 vehicles were available at any one time.

But with " The Samurai " fans behind Sam Querrey at home, Haas was defeated, 3 – 6, 5 – 7.

* Way of the Samurai 3 ( Shuzen Fujimori )

* Incident at Honnō-ji is one of the key stages in the Samurai Warriors video game series and Onimusha 3: Demon Siege.

Honnō-ji is depicted in the games Onimusha 3: Demon Siege, Samurai Warriors, and Sengoku Basara Series and in episode 10 of the animated TV series Sengoku Otome.

* Kaihime in Samurai Warriors 3

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 ).

Several fighting games achieved greater commercial success, including SNK's Art of Fighting and Samurai Shodown as well as Sega's Eternal Champions.

" In the following years, similar awards were given to seven other films: one from Italy ( The Bicycle Thief ), two from France ( Monsieur Vincent and Forbidden Games ), three from Japan ( Rashomon, Gate of Hell and Samurai, The Legend of Musashi ), as well as a Franco-Italian co-production ( The Walls of Malapaga ).

Samurai Empire is a Japanese-themed expansion, offering two new professions, the Ninja and the Samurai, as well as new Japanese-themed housing tile sets.

In addition, J-Horror and J-Drama, as well as other Asian Shows have been fansubbed as many people are becoming more and more curious about Asian Cinema and breaking away from the Kung Fu, Samurai, Giant Monsters films that so many people were familiar with prior to fansubbing.

* Chushingura and the Samurai Tradition — Comparisons of the accuracy of accounts by Mitford, Murdoch and others, as well as much other useful material, by a noted scholars of Japan

They then set the Silver Samurai on to her and it appeared she killed him though he appeared alive and well in other comics.

" Mark Ravina, the author of The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori, argued that " Satsuma Rebellion " is not the best name for the war because the English name does not well represent the war and its Japanese name.

Samurai Jack occasionally borrows from ancient sources as well as current ones.

Samurai Pizza Cats has been broadcast in Australia and New Zealand, as well as various countries in Africa, Eurasia and the Americas, most notably the United Kingdom, India, Spain, Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Chile, Peru, Panama, Hong Kong, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, Israel, Kenya, South Africa, Sweden, Armenia, and the United States, from 1991 onwards.

Channel 46 sold WVEU many of its syndicated cartoons, such as Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Biker Mice from Mars, Bots Master, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, Transformers: Generation 2, Conan the Adventurer, as well as Disney Afternoon cartoons, such as TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Bonkers, Aladdin, along with off network classic sitcoms, such as Perfect Strangers, I Dream of Jeannie, A Different World, and Roseanne.

Katsu produced the manga-based Lone Wolf and Cub ( Kozure Okami ) series of jidaigeki films starring his brother Tomisaburo Wakayama which were later compiled into the movie Shogun Assassin, as well as co-writing, producing, and acting alongside his brother in the TV series " Oshi Samurai " (" The Mute Samurai ").

The Soul of the Samurai and Known World maps from Shogun and the map from Journey were included separately ; an added instruction manual included the Book of Hours from Arthur as well as instructions for all three added games.

Using these " photographic reflexes ," the Taskmaster is highly skilled in various forms of combat, as an exceptional martial artist ( mimicking Elektra, Iron Fist, Shang-Chi ), a skilled swordsman ( Black Knight, Silver Samurai, Swordsman ), a deadly accurate marksman ( Captain America with a shield, Hawkeye with a bow and arrow, Punisher with firearms, and Bullseye with various projectiles ) as well as displaying a strenuously honed athletic ability ( Black Panther, Daredevil, Spider-Man ).

Although all three games looked great, none were particularly well received: hardcore SNK fans preferred the 2D versions of Samurai Shodown and Fatal Fury and newcomers were seldom interested at all ; Namco and Sega had superior arcade hardware and a larger catalog of 3D games to tempt them with.

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.

He is the titular character of the films such as Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke ( known in the west as Samurai Spy ), Sânada Daisûke to Sarutobi Sasuke, Sarutobi no Ninjutsu and Sarutobi Sasuke Senjogadake no Himatsuri, as well as of several other movies simply named Sarutobi Sasuke in 1918, 1919, 1922, 1966 ( the last one also known as Ninja Spy ).

Goemon appears in the video game series Samurai Warriors and Warriors Orochi ( where he is a self-proclaimed king of thieves, wielding a giant mace and a handheld cannon ), as well as in the video games Kessen III, Ninja Master's-Haoh-Ninpo-Cho-( depicted as a giant bandit hero, also carrying a cannon and seeking to plunder Nobunaga's castle ), Shall We Date?