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.

* Yoroiden Samurai Troopers aka Ronin Warriors ( 1988 )

* Kayura in Yoroiden Samurai Troopers

* Sayonara no Daimeshi ( さよならの代名詞 ) ( Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, BEST FRIENDS CD )

Worthy of mention is Yudetamago's Kinnikuman, Hiroshi Kawamoto's Tenkū Senki Shurato, Clamp's Magic Knight Rayearth, Kōichi Tokita's Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Hajime Yatate and Ryuichi Hoshino's Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Yoshihiro Togashi's YuYu Hakusho, videogames such as the World Heroes series and The King of Fighters series, among others.

* Shin Mōri ( Cye Mouri ), character in Yoroiden Samurai Troopers / Ronin Warriors

A character conceived in the dubbing of Samurai Troopers, Hariel, was created to prevent viewers from being confused when Ryo called upon the powers of the five armors to create the Inferno.

The Sun Yoroi, Kikoutei, was formed from the armor powers of all five Samurai Troopers fused into a single being.

* Samurai Warriors 3 as Motonari Mori

* Mori Clan Timeline at Samurai Archives

In Japan armour continued to be used until the end of the samurai era, with the last major fighting in which armour was used happening in 1868. Samurai armour had one last short lived use in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion

* 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.

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.

* Turnbull, Stephen R. The Samurai Sourcebook.

Some notable Japanese films are Tokyo Story, Seven Samurai, Ugetsu, Tampopo, In the Realm of the Senses, and Godzilla.

The first was the Kurosawa epic Seven Samurai, about a band of hired samurai who protect a helpless village from a rapacious gang of thieves.

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.

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.

* The episode " Unholy Union " of the Anime Samurai Champloo features a villain claiming to be Francis Xavier's grandson, calling himself Francis Xavier III.

* The Fujiwara clan is featured as a playable faction in Total War: Shogun 2s expansion The Rise of the Samurai.

In Japan, Samurai and Zen monks were often required to build decorative gardens or practice related skills like flower arrangement known as ikebana.

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.

Samurai warriors, as part of bushido, could perform ritual suicide, or seppuku, with a tantō, a common Japanese knife.

Miyamoto Musashi, Self-portrait, Samurai, writer and artist, c. 1640

Shang-Chi then teamed with Spider-Man, the Black Widow, and Nick Fury against Viper, Boomerang, and Silver Samurai.

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.

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

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.

Nobunaga is also a good character in the first Samurai Cat book.

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

* Shogun's Samurai ( a. k. a. Yagyu Clan Conspiracy ) ( 1978 ) as Jūbei Mitsuyoshi Yagyū

# Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke ( 異聞猿飛佐助 ) ( The Strange Story of Sarutobi Sasuke, a. k. a. Samurai Spy ) ( 1965 )

* Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke ( 異聞猿飛佐助 ) ( The Strange Story of Sarutobi Sasuke, a. k. a. Samurai Spy ) ( 1965 )

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In 1959, Hiroshi Inagaki wrote and directed a Japanese version, Aru kengo no shogai ( Life of an Expert Swordsman or Samurai Saga ), setting the story in 17th century Shogunate Japan and starring Toshirō Mifune as the Cyrano character " Heihachiro Komaki " and Yoko Tsukasa as the Roxanne character " Lady Ochii ".

While a phone-in poll was conducted to see if viewers wanted MMPR back on YTV, no further installments of the Power Rangers franchise ever aired on the network ( until 2011's Power Rangers Samurai ), although commercials for toys and videos were advertised on the network.

Samurai anger was made worse by the fact Go-Daigo, wanting to build a palace for himself but having no funds, levied extra taxes from the samurai class.

Samurai, Captain in the Aizu domain's artillery corps, served at the Hamagurigomon no Hen, and later in the Boshin War.

Samurai Jack is no longer available to be viewed by American residents via the Toonami Jetstream website.

** Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple ( 続宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決闘 Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō ) ( 1955 )

The Samurai of Space ( O-zora no Samurai )

In the Prince of Tennis movie Futari no Samurai, Ryoma supposedly has an older brother named Ryoga Echizen, but the latter is later revealed to simply be a child that Nanjiro took in a few years ago.

He is seen in the movie " Futari no Samurai " and in the newer episode " The Prince of Naniwa " ( where he is shown intensely practicing.

Lightspeed Rescue also had, for the first time, a Power Ranger with no Super Sentai counterpart in the Titanium Ranger, as there was no regular sixth Ranger in GoGo V. It is the last Saban Entertainment-produced Power Rangers series to feature the main villain from its Super Sentai counterpart, until the premiere of Power Rangers Samurai.

* Asataro, the Onion Samurai ( Negibozu no Asatarō, " Onion-Head " Asatarō ) ( 2008 – 2009 )

On April 25, 2006, a little over five years since the launch of the now-defunct Toonami Reactor, Cartoon Network and VIZ Media announced plans to launch Toonami Jetstream, a new ad-supported streaming video service featuring Toonami series like Naruto, Samurai Jack, Megas XLR and IGPX and the internet webcast premieres of Hikaru no Go, MÄR, Eyeshield 21, The Prince of Tennis, MegaMan Star Force, Kiba, MegaMan NT Warrior, & Zoids: Genesis, the latter two of which never ended up being streamed.

Toonami Jetstream launched on July 17, 2006 ( after a brief unofficial sneak preview that began on July 14 ), and offered episodes of Naruto, Hikaru no Go, MÄR, Zatch Bell !, Pokémon, Blue Dragon, Samurai Jack, Kiba, Storm Hawks and Transformers: Animated.

But the " novel " has no emotional continuity … There are a few marvelous stories in this book, and one superb one Samurai and the Willows ", but they are ruined by a setting which exposes their worst weaknesses.

* Samurai Deeper Kyo Onmyouden no Tobira-Benitora

Many history textbooks treat the war with only a few lines of mention, and with the exception of Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War 1592 – 98 by Stephen Turnbull, no complete academic studies on the subject exists in English.

* Sakura Taisen V Episode 0 Kouya no Samurai Musume ( Patrick Hamilton )

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.

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.

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 ).