* 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.

* 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.

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

* Samurai Warriors 2 Xtreme Legends as Chosokabe Motochika

* Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends-Noh ( uncredited )

* Samurai Warriors 2 Xtreme Legends as Toshiie Maeda

* Samurai Warriors-Inahime ( starting from Xtreme Legends )

* Bishamon ( Samurai Warriors ), an ultimate weapon used by Uesugi Kenshin in the PlayStation 2 game Samurai Warriors Xtreme Legends

* Samurai Warriors Xtreme Legends-Oichi, Ina ( uncredited )

Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends is a PlayStation 2 expansion disc for Samurai Warriors.

Exclusive to Samurai Warriors Xtreme Legends, through the completion of special tasks, the player can earn Bonus Points in order to purchase special features.

Legends of the Samurai.

His films include Glory ( 1989 ), Legends of the Fall ( 1994 ), The Siege ( 1998 ), The Last Samurai ( 2003 ), Blood Diamond ( 2006 ), and Defiance ( 2008 ).

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.

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 further trained, perfecting their swordsmanship.

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.

* Samurai 7-An anime inspired by this movie

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.

* 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

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.

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