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 movies are some of the best examples of moviemaking, but there are many films that deserve praise that modern ...

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