Shinichiro Watanabe's Samurai Champloo is filled with beautiful fight scenes and duels. But, these 10 will forever go down as ...

so it is generally the most basic stance in which a samurai enters a fight. There is a concept known as zanshin, which is the state of relaxed alertness felt by a samurai after he has dealt a ...

Though Akira Kurosawa walked a rocky road while filming Seven Samurai, the end results speak for themselves. The fight scenes are intense, placing the viewer right in the center of the action like ...

Seki Nobuhide Sensei, a martial arts and katana instructor, rates portrayals of samurai battles in movies and TV shows. He explains why samurai employed different types of spears in battle in "Shogun.

Samurai warriors derived their status and salaries ... and an uprising in 1651 was narrowly averted. With no wars to fight, some ronin became farmers or monks while others led lives as mercenaries ...

We got to play the next Assassin's Creed game set in Japan with Ubisoft's new take on exploration -- as well as teases of the Animus system.