Most likely the first example of the anime form being used for a documentary, “Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai” is a larky, restlessly inventive look at 17th-century master swordsman ...

Miyamoto Musashi was a legendary samurai who is said to have fought and won over 60 duels and lived into his 60s at a time when the average person only lived until their mid-30s. He wrote one of ...

Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto ...

In 17th century Japan, there was a samurai so skilled that myths started to grow about him while he was still alive. After his death, he became a legend of super natural skills with the sword. His ...

Epic samurai manga 'Vagabond,' first serialized in 1998, ... is based on Eiji Yoshikawa's 1935 historical novel "Musashi," which is a popular account of 17th-century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.

Miyamoto Musashi in combat (nineteenth-century illustration by Yoshitaki Tsunejiro). Credit: Yoshitaki Tsunejiro / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons. It is a chapter that exudes Buddhism, with ...

Seventeenth-century samurai Miyamoto Musashi probably never imagined himself with a gelled spike hairdo, fighting an army of robots. But the hero of Square Enix's latest action role-playing game ...

Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto ...