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Life of an Expert Swordsman (Japanese: 或る剣豪の生涯, Hepburn: Aru kengo no shōgai) is a 1959 samurai film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune. [2] [3] Its story is an adaptation of the 1897 Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac, and its basic plot faithfully follows that of the play.
English: On Friday, May 9, 1980, Defense Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, California, three academic buildings were named in honor of three Nisei Yankee Samurai who sacrificed their lives in defense of America during World War II. Sergeant Frank Hachiya, Hood River Valley, Oregon; Technical Sgt Terry Mizutari, Hilo, Hawaii; Sergeant ...
Musashi (Japanese: 宮本武蔵, Hepburn: Miyamoto Musashi), also listed as Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era, is a Japanese epic novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the life and deeds of legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. The book follows Shinmen Takezō starting after the Battle of Sekigahara.
Samurai! is a 1957 autobiographical book on Saburo Sakai, ghostwritten by Martin Caidin based on interviews with Fred Saito. It describes the life and career of Sakai, a Japanese combat aviator who fought against American fighter pilots in the Pacific Theater of World War II , surviving the war as one of Japan 's leading flying aces .
William Scott Wilson (born 1944, Nashville, Tennessee) is known for translating several works of Japanese literature, mostly those relating to the martial tradition of that country.
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The Samurai is a novel by Japanese author Shusaku Endo first published in 1980. It tells a fictionalized story of a 17th-century diplomatic mission to "Nueva España" ( New Spain or Mexico) by Japanese noblemen, and the cultural clash that ensues.
The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive [1] in regions outside of North America, is a 16-bit video game console that was designed and produced by Sega. First released in Japan on October 29, 1988, in North America on August 14, 1989, and in PAL regions in 1990, the Genesis is Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System .