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Samurai (侍) were the military-nobility and officer-caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.
In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi (武士, [bu.ɕi]) or buke (武家). According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning "to wait upon" or "accompany persons" in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility", the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai. According to Wilson, an early reference to the word "samurai" appears in the Kokin Wakashū (905–914), the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the 10th century.
By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai were usually associated with a clan and their lord, were trained as officers in military tactics and grand strategy, and they followed a set of rules that later came to be known as the bushidō. While the samurai numbered less than 10% of then Japan's population, their teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts.
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Keywords: samuraiActors: Chris Geer (miscellaneous crew), Stuart B. Rekant (producer), Charlotte Stobbs (editor), Bill Dance (actor), Christopher Carlson (writer), Yoshi Amao (actor), Kristin Paquette (costume designer), Peter Englehart (producer),
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Genres: Adventure,Actors: Ryûhei Kitamura (writer), Masaya Katô (actor), Masaya Katô (actor), Hideo Sakaki (actor), Shûichi Kakesu (editor), Ryûhei Kitamura (director), Masaya Katô (actor), Tak Sakaguchi (actor), Shôichirô Masumoto (writer), Takao Ohsawa (actor), Shin'ya Kawai (producer), Shin'ya Kawai (producer), Haruo Umekawa (producer), Nobuhiko Morino (composer), Munehiro Umemura (producer),
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Keywords: character-name-in-title, minimal-cast, samurai, sword-fight, swordplayActors: Charles Napier (actor), Pat Morita (actor), Michael Giacchino (composer), John Coniglio (editor), Rob Letterman (director), Anders J.L. Beer (writer), John Leader (actor),
Genres: Animation, Short,Actors: Costas Mandylor (actor), Katarzyna Figura (actress), John Scott (editor), Jonathan Murray (producer), Kerry Fetzer (miscellaneous crew), Steven Grives (actor), Terence Cooper (actor), Sophie Fabbri-Jackson (miscellaneous crew), Garry Hardman (composer), Stephen Jones (producer), Judy Whitehead (miscellaneous crew), Gennie Nevinson (actress), Ted Otton (editor), Maude Heath (miscellaneous crew), Richard Ryan (writer),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Adrian Edmondson (actor), David Hayman (actor), Burt Kwouk (actor), Robert Lee (actor), Martin Murphy (actor), Pik Sen Lim (actress), Sandy Johnson (director), Sandy Johnson (writer), Michael Hamlyn (producer), Richard Bedford (editor), Sarah Lam (actress), Jill Spurrier (actress), John Fowler (actor), Richard Greatrex (director), Kizzy McHugh (actress),
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The swimmer is so far from the distant shore
The only time she never feels alone
On the land her body distorts
In the water lines are true to her mind
I can hardly see you now
Are you getting closer and, you know you're the one?
They will never understand, how washed up you feel on land
The sport light of the sun, it shines on
The swimmer knows she'll never touch the floor
She can float unharmed by murky wars
And the land is as plain as her skin
But the water shines like the star in her mind
I can hardly see you now
Are you getting closer and, you know you're the one?
They will never understand, how washed up you feel on land