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.

Many - if not most - of the greatest sword fights in movie history happened during the Golden Age of Hollywood. A term that typically describes an era of cinema ranging from the late 1920s to the ...

Excellent battle scenes are a key part of the war genre, and many TV shows are better than any war movie for their spectacle and the time we have to get to know the characters. That said, battle ...