Few historical warrior classes evoke the same sort of fascination as the samurai in popular culture. Samurai came to ...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' is an engrossingly elegant adaptation of Honobu Yonezawa's prizewinning ...

Tom Cruise narrowly escaped death while filming The Last Samurai as a fight scene with Hiroyuki Sanada went dangerously wrong ...

Reading a few books by samurai there was one thing I saw repeated again and again and again that surprised me. It has nothing to do with swords, fighting, or strategy. Actually, quite the opposite.

A total of 55 different officers are featured in this rich depiction of the Warring States period. The new deluxe edition of Samurai Warriors 4 contains more than 150 previously released downloadable ...

Star Wars and the samurai tradition share a fascination with the masks we show to the world, and how living behind one can fundamentally reshape the soul of the wearer. It's a connection that dates ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

The British Museum is hosting a major exhibition about samurai, which looks to challenge what you think you know about the famed warrior class. After 1615, half of all samurai were actually ...

Japan's soccer team wears blue despite the flag being red and white. Here is the history behind the Samurai Blue.