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.

He also loved films and was a fan of " chambara " or samurai films.

Many Western films after the mid-1950s were influenced by the Japanese samurai films of Akira Kurosawa.

After the film's release, the careers of each man took different arcs: Mifune continued to enjoy success with a range of samurai and war-themed films ( Rebellion, Samurai Assassin, The Emperor and a General, among others ).

Gen, the rhino bounty hunter, was inspired by the characters made famous by Toshirō Mifune in the samurai films Yojimbo and Sanjuro.

While Usagi Yojimbo draws most heavily upon samurai and chanbara films, it has also been influenced by Japanese films from other genres.

Next he appeared as gunman Lee in The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ), a role he essentially reprised 20 years later in Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ), both films being adaptations of filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese samurai epic, Seven Samurai

The films are descendents of the samurai epics, and are closer to Westerns than to Hollywood gangster movies.

His best known works internationally are the samurai films Gohatto ( 1999 ) and Zatoichi ( 2003 ), as well as the critically acclaimed film Akarui Mirai ( Bright Future ).

He is known for directing samurai period and yakuza films such as Battles Without Honor and Humanity ( 1973 ), the Japanese portion of the Hollywood film Tora!

Fukasaku continued his work with Sonny Chiba, who starred in Fukasaku's debut film, for several samurai period films such as Shogun's Samurai.

In addition, some of the early epic westerns, such as The Magnificent Seven and Leone's spaghetti westerns, were influenced by Akira Kurosawa's samurai films, such as Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Sanjuro.

Many of the battle scenes in the series are reminiscent of samurai films, and since Jack's robotic enemies " bleed " oil or electricity and monsters and aliens bleed slime or goo, the series is able to exhibit the action of these films while avoiding censorship for violence.

Action in Samurai Jack borrows liberally from old martial arts and samurai films, and action films of the 1970s.

The company made a few samurai films and historical dramas but by 1960 had decided to devote its resources to the production of urban youth dramas, comedy, action and gangster films.

Like others in the group, Inagaki was known for his cheerful and intelligent samurai films.

In 2010 and 2011 he was part of both ensemble casts in Takashi Miike's samurai films, 13 Assassins and Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai.

Blending Japanese samurai film traditions with Western editing techniques and Chinese aesthetic philosophy borrowed from Chinese music and operatics, Hu began the trend of a new school of wuxia swordplay films and his perpetual use of a female heroine as the central protagonist.

To attempt to make the setting as authentic as possible, the Creative Assembly enlisted the aid of Stephen Turnbull, a military historian who specialises with samurai warfare, although the jidaigeki films by Akira Kurosawa also provided a source of inspiration-excerpts of the famous Mt.

Hence, Interlingua includes such diverse word forms as Japanese geisha and samurai, Arabic califa, Aboriginal kanguru, and Finnish sauna.

Likewise, Asian martial arts become well-documented during the medieval period, Japanese martial arts beginning with the establishment of the samurai nobility in the 12th century, Chinese martial arts with Ming era treatises such as Ji Xiao Xin Shu, Indian martial arts in medieval texts such as the Agni Purana and the Malla Purana, and Korean martial arts with Joseon era texts such as Muyejebo ( 1598 ).

The Edo government eventually formally recognized such tekiya organizations and granted the oyabun ( leaders ) of tekiya a surname as well as permission to carry a sword — the wakizashi, or short samurai sword ( the right to carry the katana, or full-sized samurai swords, remained the exclusive right of the nobility and samurai castes ).

Instead, war epics such as the Tale of Hōgen ( Hōgen Monogatari ) and the Tale of the Heike ( Heike Monogatari ) focus mainly on the aristocratic samurai, whose deeds were apparently more appealing to the audience.

Clothing used was similar to that of the samurai, but loose garments ( such as leggings ) were tucked into trousers or secured with belts.

Notable samurai, though certainly not all ( e. g. Amakusa Shiro ), have throughout history held such aims or beliefs in disdain, or expressed the awareness that their station — as it involves killing — precludes such reward, especially in Buddhism.

Other arts, such as Takagi Yoshin Ryu and Kukishinden Ryu were developed by members of samurai families.

Kajiya-chō was one of Kagoshima's samurai housing-districts, in which many other influential figures of the Meiji period were born, such as Saigō Takamori and Ōkubo Toshimichi.

The samurai remained attached to ideas of single combat, that of honorable battle between individual warriors, and to certain ritual elements of battle, such as a series of archery exchanges conducted before entering into hand-to-hand fighting.

Some contemporaries such as Sato Naotaka and Dazai Shundai thought such trickery was unworthy of a samurai.

The suggestion that the Ako samurai did not commit suicide but gave themselves up to the authorities in the hope of being singled out for such shogunal praise was not altogether unlikely at the time.

The Hollywood film 47 Ronin is currently under production by Universal Pictures and will star Keanu Reeves as an outcast who joins the samurai in their quest to avenge their slain master along with some of the biggest Japanese actors such as Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Kô Shibasaki, Rinko Kikuchi, and Jin Akanishi.

The government also outlawed customs linked to Japan's feudal past, such as publicly displaying and wearing katana and the top knot, both of which were characteristic of the samurai class, which was abolished together with the caste system.

Disenchanted former samurai had established patriotic societies and intelligence-gathering organizations, such as the Gen ' yōsha ( 玄洋社 Black Ocean Society, founded in 1881 ) and its later offshoot, the Kokuryūkai ( 黒竜会 Black Dragon Society or Amur River Society, founded in 1901 ).

" As such, he said, the noble samurai leader Katsumoto " set ( his ) teeth on edge.

British historian Richard Storry noted that Nogi imposed the best of the Japanese samurai tradition on the men under his command such that "... the conduct of the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War towards both prisoners and Chinese civilians won the respect, and indeed admiration, of the world.

A man of strong character, Ōmura had come to entertain such disgust at the cramped military system of feudalism that a story is told of his refusing to talk to a close companion of arms who offended him by wearing his long samurai sword during a conference.

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

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.

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.

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 book, Training the Samurai Mind: A Bushido Sourcebook, gives an insider's view of the samurai world: " the moral and psychological development of the warrior, the ethical standards they were meant to uphold, their training in both martial arts and strategy, and the enormous role that the traditions of Shintoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism had in influencing samurai ideals.

Mifune's portrayal of Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy is deliberately made to become the epitome of samurai honour and manners.

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According to the Bushido Shoshinshu ( the Code of the Samurai ), a samurai was supposed to commit oibara seppuku ( also " hara kiri " – ritual suicide ) upon the loss of his master.

Most significantly, the main character's name, Miyamoto Usagi, is a play on " Miyamoto Musashi ", Japan's most famous historical samurai and the author of The Book of Five Rings, and " Usagi " the Japanese language word for " rabbit " ( The story notes for one volume also cite as an influence Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, which features Miyamoto Musashi as a protagonist.

The use of the samurai cuirass lasted until the 1860s when a national army using conventional uniforms was established. Samurai armour ( and cuirasses ) were last used in 1877 during the Satsuma rebellion.

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 saw him as the man who could bring back the shogunate's heyday, and therefore his strength was superior to that of any other samurai, Nitta Yoshisada included.

His roles include the doctor in Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), the veteran detective in Stray Dog ( 1949 ), the flawed lawyer in Scandal ( 1950 ), the woodcutter in Rashomon ( 1950 ), the mortally ill bureaucrat in Ikiru ( 1952 ), and the lead samurai Kambei in Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

Samurai in Iwami and Aki who were on the frontline of the battle between Amago and Ōuchi were forced to walk the tight rope and Mōri Motonari who would eventually emerge victorious against both Amago and Ōuchi was one of such samurai.

After hearing the name of the sample, they will ask why it was named that upon which the customer would have some calamity related to the name of the dish happen to him or her such as being tackled by a Dancing Lobster upon trying the ice cream " Lobster Tackle ," being punched by Abraham Lincoln upon trying the soup " Lincoln Punch ", being attacked by a samurai upon trying the sushi " Samurai Roll ", being crushed by a refrigerator upon trying the cookie " Refrigerator Crunch ", being abducted by aliens upon trying " Alien Abduction Jerky ," or being blown away by strong winds upon trying a " Hurricane Dog ".

Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) by Kurosawa, tells the story of a farming village that hires seven masterless samurai to combat bandits.

In issue # 74 of Marvel Team-Up ( cover dated October, 1978 ), Belushi ( in character as Samurai Futaba ) dueled Marvel Comics supervillain Silver Samurai, who believed that Belushi was disgracing the history of the samurai.