How to pronounce “samurai” in English

from a traditional feudal samurai society where the most powerful weapon was the sword to one within a few decades that would turn Japan into the fastest

The ideal of the samurai becomes a huge influence on the films of Kurosawa.

the way the samurai warrior learned to deal with his fly.

Almost like a samurai sword.

And two little Steven Seagal samurai braids that are representing my antenna.

It's the size of a samurai sword.

Black and white footage of samurais fighting.

It would be a little bit scary to feed samurai sword fish live prey.

They're going to help us to be more like that samurai guy with the fly who instead of fighting the discomfort of the fly, found a way to accept and be

I was hired to illustrate this non-fiction book about Japan's most famous samurai, Minamoto Yoshitsune.

And George Lucas in several interviews has said that he was inspired by the samurai ideal when he was thinking about the Jedi knights.

And so I'd always carry my sketchbook around and draw everything from a fierce samurai to brooding minotaurs.

I think one of my first questions was how-- How do you smuggle a samurai sword?

Springsteen started-- Pinsky's got that great poem, "Samurai Song," which is a beautiful poem.

This is actually a full-sized, realistic samurai helmet, cuz.

For me, that's how I discovered in "Seven Samurai," on basically, three VHS tapes.

And I always talk about how, as a kid-- I was seven when I saw "Seven Samurai--" and afterwards, I declared to my father--

this is in Mexico-- when I grow up, I want to be a samurai.

Well, I'm going to do it just like those Japanese do making a samurai sword.

Era un aspecto completamente-- Samurai.

And at one point, he just started to recite "Samurai Song."

That happens in Japan, the ronin stories where a samurai is disowned by his master and then just wanders as an independent.

They were like, so you're like really into samurais and stuff?

The Japanese have a long history of steel, can imagine with samurais.

But like I was saying, early on, I discovered Akira Kurosawa movies like "Seven Samurai"

What I started realizing-- like a scientist, I started sort of deciphering, why do I love "Seven Samurai?"

Oye, aquella fantástica falda de bandido, que resulta que he descubierto que era una falda auténtica de samurai.

Zen Buddhism becomes one of the two main components in the Bushido Ideal, the ideal of the samurai.

And when asked why, they said, well, basically, there's a long tradition in Japan of mastery, sort of going back to the samurai,

I actually did a piece about this for tor.com, because it's kind of like "Seven Samurai."

So "Star Wars" is an incredibly wonderful combination of Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" mono-myth plot line, some Akira Kurosawa samurai films,

And then there was, underneath his movies, there's this humanity, this depth that was like-- the reason I watched it because, I was like, samurais.

I was like, you know, what is our-- because there have been a couple different-- some people were saying we're the Samurais, which I liked.