@article{1356159,
      recid = {1356159},
      author = {Guerrini, Bernard.},
      title = {The samurai [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (53 min.)},
      year = {2002},
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      abstract = {In Japan, there is still a great deal of admiration for  the Samurai and their rigid code of honor. Much more than  their role as warriors, they represent the very roots of  Japanese civilization. The Samurai offers an enthralling  and colorful odyssey into Japan's history in which Samurai  culture became the core of Japanese values. The film  colorfully illustrates the Samurai s martial traditions and  the manifestations of its ties to the Zen principles of  Respect, Purity and Composure. Professor Kohei Irie of  Tsukuba University says: "The Samurai warrior class  realized that to keep power during the seven hundred years  in which they prevailed, they had to add intellectual and  spiritual elements to the act of war ... and acquire a  culture based on literature, art and religion." The film  contains mesmerizing images of horseback riders in  spectacular recreations of battles and in Kendo, a sport  using sticks as swords. The discipline and audacious spirit  of the Samurai also emerges in the art of swordmaking or  "Katana," in the tea ceremony, in calligraphy and in the  art of flower arrangement. The Samurai also contains clips  from features such as Akiro Kurosawa s The Seven Samurai  which idealizes the art of conflict and pays homage to the  Samurai s self-control, their sense of strategy and their  control over their opponents minds. From the Edo period to  the present, the martial arts have been used to shape and  train model citizens. Despite the broad cultural changes in  this ultra-modern and urbanized country, many people are  nostalgic for the ancestral values of Honor, Truth and  Virtue and try to rekindle the spirit of the ancient  Samurai warrior.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1356159},
}