Ninja vs Samurai: WHO WOULD WIN?

[Geno]

I wasn't comparing it to anime, bubba. I'm talking about live-action movies. Classics of cinema, and general awesome stuff.

I know, I'm just sayin'... Rurouni Kenshin's the only anime I've been watching lately 'cause I haven't cared much about anime lately. I know you meant live action movies.

I've seen the first eight episodes Ruroni Kenshin and it's pretty good at what it's trying to be, which is an anime about samurais and similar people who do increasingly over-the-top stuff that's not very historical. It's good fun, but it doesn't really give you an accurate picture of how samurais really were. For that you can check out just about any Akira Kurosawa movies, most of those feature samurais heavily and are very good movies.

Yeah, Rurouni Kenshin uses bits of historical detail here and there, but it's not very accurate. And yes, the things the samurais do are superhuman and cannot be performed in real life by any stretch of the imagination, even though the anime tries to put things into context and make the stunts seem within human grasp, however difficult they may be to perform. If you want a bit of Japanese History 101, Rurouni Kenshin is not the right place to look. However, between chapters of the manga, the creator sometimes explains the real history of the meiji era in Japan and how he's twisted it around to fit with the plot of Kenshin.