Cultural references to the Sengoku period

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The sengoku-jidai (Japanese: 戦国時代), or Warring States period, was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict that lasted roughly from the middle 15th to the early 17th century. For information on the historical sengoku-jidai, please see the article Sengoku period.

• Kagemusha, the powerful film by Akira Kurosawa, takes place during this era.
• Onibaba, a film by Kaneto Shindo, is also set in this period.
• The two Japanese science-fiction movies Sengoku jietai features modern-day soldiers transported through time to that period and having to fight samurai forces with modern weaponry.
• Two Science fiction movies on the Sengoku era were made. Sengoku jietai, made in 1979, and Sengoku jietai 1549 was set in the Sengoku period when soldiers of the JGSDF were transported through a time portal.
• The video game mod Sengoku is a FPS with feudal Japan theme and samurai for Battlefield 1942.
• The video game Nobunaga's Ambition is a strategy game set in the Sengoku period.
• The video game is a real time strategy game set in Japan during Sengoku period.
• The anime and manga series InuYasha is set in the Sengoku period.
• The manga Rurouni Kenshin included a short story, Crescent Moon in the Warring States, which featured a Hiko Seijuro from the Sengoku period.
• The Soul Calibur series of video games are set in the period of transition between the Sengoku and Edo periods.
• The video game Samurai Warriors by Koei takes place in this era. The Japanese title for this game is Sengoku Musou, and features many historic individuals and battles from the Sengoku period.
• The video game series Onimusha by Capcom takes place in this era, especially Onimusha 3.
• The anime and manga series Samurai Deeper Kyo takes place just after the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate however some plot events take place during this time period and many characters participated in the Warring States era.
• The video game Sengoku Basara (Japan only; the game was released as Devil Kings in the United States and all Sengoku references removed) by Capcom, takes place during the Sengoku Period.
• Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai takes place during (and after) this era.
• Several NHK historical dramas, such as Dokuganryu Masamune, Kasuga no Tsubone, Takeda Shingen, Oda Nobunaga: King of Zipangu, Hideyoshi, and Toshiie to Matsu takes place during this era. Another drama, Hojo Tokimune takes place some 400 years before this era, which is in turn about the Hojo clan.
• The Conquests expansion for Civilization III features a Sengoku scenario.
• The popular role-playing game Sengoku by Anthony Bryant and Mark Arsenault is set in 16th Century Japan.
• The Sengoku Denshou series from the Arcades (later ported to Neo-Geo and the Super Nintendo) had themes of the Sengoku era, which included Nobunaga as an evil warlord trying to conquer the modern world and commands his minions from a Japanese castle.
• The board game Shogun (board game)
• The video game Kessen III takes place in the Sengoku era, following the story of Oda Nobunaga.
• Komyo ga Tsuji a novel and a TV drama of the same name takes place in the Sengoku Era.

 

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