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A samurai in his armour in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato. Samurai or bushi (武士, [bɯ.ɕi]) were members of the warrior class in Japan.They were originally provincial warriors who served the Kuge and imperial court in the late 12th century, although it is debated when they became a class. [1]
The Samurai is a Japanese historical fiction television series made by Senkosha Productions during the early 1960s. Its original Japanese title was Onmitsu Kenshi ( 隠密剣士 , "Spy Swordsman") . The series premiered in 1962 on TBS and ran continuously until 1965 for ten self-contained story arcs (seasons), usually of 13 episodes each.
' The Samurai ') is a 1967 neo-noir crime thriller film [7] written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier. A Franco-Italian production, it depicts the intersecting paths of a professional hitman (Delon) trying to find out who hired him for a job and then tried to have ...
The Samurai Trilogy is a film trilogy directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto and Kōji Tsuruta as Kojirō Sasaki. The films are based on Musashi , a novel by Eiji Yoshikawa about the famous duelist and author of The Book of Five Rings .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 December 2024. Moral code of the samurai This article is about the Japanese concept of chivalry. For other uses, see Bushido (disambiguation). A samurai in his armor in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato Bushidō (武士道, "the way of the warrior") is a moral code concerning samurai ...
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.
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto received widespread critical acclaim upon its release in 1954 and has continued to be highly regarded in the decades since. The film was a commercial success in Japan and gained recognition internationally, solidifying its status as a classic of Japanese cinema.
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