For almost 700 years, these disciplined warriors were respected and feared in Japan, and they carved out a path that made ...

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

Scrappy original art contrasts with impressive redraws for an over-the-top superhero tale. Comics, manga, manhwa, manhua. Whatever the term used for graphic panel storytelling, they’re as much a ...

Just as the Jedi follow a strict moral and spiritual code, so too did the samurai adhere to Bushidō—the “Way of the Warrior.” It wasn’t just ... where light and dark aren’t “good” and “evil” in simple ...

Two swords once carried by samurai ... to these elite warriors. Under the Asakura, Ichijodani grew to rival even the imperial capital of Kyoto, the center of the nation’s art and culture ...

No matter how well-intentioned their crusades have been, the stars of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors have killed millions of people apiece at this point. It only seems fitting that they’d ...

For anyone who loves gratuitous, over-the-top action games, it doesn’t get any bigger than the Dynasty Warriors franchise ... Love pop cultural portrayals of samurai? There’s a series for ...

“Bushido” is Japanese for “the way of the warrior,” a moral code and guiding principle in samurai culture. It is also the title of Kazuya Shiraishi’s new film in which history ...

Set several centuries later in northern Japan, gamers will play as Atsu, a dual sword-wielding female warrior ... women were proficient in the art of war and excelled on the battlefield too. Defending ...

10 Classic Samurai Movies to Watch While You Wait for ‘Shogun’ Season 2 Veteran Japanese producer and Tokyo Film Festival programmer Shozo Ichiyama selects his all-time favorite samurai films ...

Then there’s the ragtag group of “Elusive Warriors ... The Elusive Samurai beyond the confines of typical shounen fare, even pushing it towards, dare I say, high art. As pretty as it ...