Sentence examples for samurai in from inspiring English sources

"There are no more samurai in Japan," he said.

His descendants succeeded him in the post, and the family became powerful samurai in the district.

It evolved among the warrior class (bushi, or samurai) in Japan from about the 17th century.

The samurai, in Brown's telling, are "dignified" in house and dress.

Dissident samurai in other provinces failed to rally to Etō's cause, however, and he was captured and beheaded.

There is a scene in "The Last Samurai" in which Algren pays a visit to the Japanese warlord Katsumoto.

What this elaborate premise may obscure is that "The Last Samurai," in its coolly cerebral way, is so much fun.

Like Forest Whitaker's urban samurai in "Ghost Dog," Mr. De Bankolé's character is an apparent adherent of Eastern philosophy.

The word samurai in the title seems to mock audience expectations as well as Seibei's banal existence.

Even Takashi Shimura, the immensely dignified lead samurai in the first film, is just one more corrupt mercenary here.

The video is set to tell the story of a samurai-in-training, who falls in love with her master while a jealous peer fights for his affection.