Samurai Secrets Revealed: Historian Yasutsune Owada Answers Your Burning Questions 🗡️

Japanese history researcher Yasutsune Owada joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about samurai. What caused the ultimate downfall of the samurai? What was samurai warfare like? What was it like to train to become a samurai? Did women ever become samurai? What did Ronin stand for? And did samurai ever use firearms on horseback? Answers to these questions and many more await on Samurai Support.<br /><br /><br />Director: Nobuyuki Yamamoto<br />Director of Photography: Keita Kawahara<br />Editor: Philip Anderson; Louis Lalire<br />Creative Producer: Sho Yamada, Lisandro Perez-Rey<br />Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi<br />Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas<br />Production Manager: Peter Brunette<br />Sound Mixer: Ryoko Uesugi<br />Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin<br />Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant<br />Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen<br />Additional Editor: Paul Tael; Jason Malizia<br />Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds