The samurai maintained their elite status into the mid-1800s, when Western influences began to take hold ... sword-slashing warrior of yore abandoned his neatly kept ponytail for a shaven head ...

But one weird studio audience member wanted to make sure he didn’t forget, etching the names of cast members into the steel blade of a samurai sword ... the back of your head, believed this ...

It has been said that the samurai's sword was his soul. Perhaps this deep attachment had something to do with the perfect melding of form and function found in the katana, as the famous curved ...