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Samurai Shodown is a straight-up fighting game and it’s been around since 1993. This is a series of video games from SNK who you may know best from Metal Slug, The King of Fighters, and Fatal Fury. This studio has been around for ages and they’ve gained a following for their arcad...
As the government attempts to eradicate the ancient Samurai warrior class in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly policies, Algren finds himself unexpectedly affected by his encounters with the Samurai, which places him at the center of a struggle between two eras and two worlds. ...
The Top Ten Orochi These are the best and yet most difficult of all the samurai classes. These heroes can find multiple weaknesses to hit you in many different ways until you are down for the count and most likely dead. Orochi, quick when you think you have a hit, his deflects are so...
1. Seven Samurai (1954)This is my all-time favourite and one of the best Japanese samurai movies of all time, in my opinion, and many other people’s opinions as well for that matter. It regularly ranks as one of the best movies ever made in Japan....
The samurai movies are really interesting because they serve as metaphors for Japanese society in the post-samurai world. Should one's family or one's corporation be most important? What is the role of the individual in society? Are those in positions of authority always correct? What is more...
The General might not have entirely invented the idea of basing a movie around action and/or adventure, but it was debatably as good as such movies got at the time, and probably wasn’t topped as an action movie until 1954, with the release of a little movie about samurai; seven of ...
Despite Rebel Moon's disastrous Rotten Tomatoes score, there are defenders of Zack Snyder's sci-fi epic. The movie started with Snyder's desire to make a Star Wars movie only for it to morph into an original idea, albeit one that borrows heavily from Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. It ...
Zatoichi,the remake of a similarly-rated 1962 film, is every bit as deserving as a successor to the title's legacy. It features one of the most unique premises for samurai or action films ever; the protagonist of this samurai movie is a blind masseuse who also happens to be a formidable...
Feudal Japan is infused with magic and mecha in this fictionalized retelling of the life of Yasuke, one of the only known African samurai. Like the actual historical figure, the eponymous Yasuke served under Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period in 16th-century Japan. Embittered ...