Who's your favorite samurai?

[Exius Xavarus]

My personal favorites are Samurai Jack and Mugen. As to which is better, it's an extremely close call, both of them are amazing. In terms of badassery, no one comes close to these two.

 

[RADIALTHRONE1]

Samurai Jack FTW

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

The only one I know is Samurai Jack. So...yeah. He wins.

 

[MANIIC 8 BALL]

ZATOICHI THE BLIND SWORDSMAN(Doesn't matter witch one original or the 2003 remake because they are both badass)

 

[Euryptus]

Gorōbei Katayama from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

Though any of the band qualify. If you haven't seen the film yet - do so.

That is all.

I'd go for the Takashi Shimura character, but otherwise I agree with your sentiments. I always think part of the appeal of the samurai is the pathos of a character who is one moment a revered member of society and the next expected to die for his master, or in the case of ronin for whatever cause he is fighting for. There is a severity and sadness to Shimura's charcter in that film which I think captures that.

That pretty much hits the nail on the head. Well spoken !

 

[Michael Hirst]

Kikuchiyo, amazing character from one of the best films ever made.

Or if we have to be factual then Musashi Miyamoto.

 

[Alluos]

Kuwabatake Sanjuro from Yojimbo.

 

[Blue2]

Ponies must be the new cats.

Well I bringing it back with: Samurai Pizza Cats

And Auron from final fantasy 10

 

[Vince500]

http://images.wikia.com/shamanking/en/images/2/2a/Amidamaru.jpg

As he is from the first anime I watched, it's gonna have to be this guy

 

[The Shade]

Samurai are chumps. I'm more into daimyo. Answer to nobody but the shogun!

Nobunaga, represent!

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Amidamaru definitely. I like most of the guys from Rurouni Kenshin, but if I had to choose it'd be Amidamaru and probably for nostalgia.

 

[kikon9]

I like Jack the best.

 

[oden636]

..Did I mention he can bend time and space?

Hiro Nakamura is the winner hands down.

 

[TheBoulder]

I gotta say that no one's more badass than Afro here.

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And if it counts, I really like Huey Freeman.

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[Steven Biehler]

Samurai Jack
No contest.

 

[Pinkamena]

Samurai Jack! Loved that show as a kid

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

Yoshimitsu ... well, technically, he's an alien space ninja ... or something.

 

[Gaiseric]

Musashi form Brave Fencer Musashi on the PS1.

That little guy was cool.

edit: or maybe one of the guys from Ronin Warriors.

 

[The_State]

Easy, William Adams (Anjin-sama), First english guy in japan and Samuria William

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(sailor)

It is incredibly cool to learn that John Blackthorne was based on an actual historical figure. Incredibly cool, but also reduces my my appreciation for "Shogun" a bit, since I thought the idea was entirely imagined. Still a good book, though.

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

I have to go with real life on this one, becuase the person I'm thinking of, even though he was a rônin (which is essentially the samurai equivalent of a knight errant), is far more badass than anyone in the history of anything ever.

Miyamoto Musashi

hes often refered to as a Ronin, but he was a vassal of Shinmen Iga no Kami, in Mimasaka, however, i think hes best refered to as a Kenyaku. A Ronin was a samurai who lost his master, and han, Musashi instead left his Han to wander the land to perfect his swordsmenship.