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Samuil Marshak
Samuil Marshak (Самуил Маршак, 1887–1964) was a Russian poet, playwright, and translator who founded modern Soviet children's literature and gave Russian readers Shakespeare's sonnets and Burns.
Samuil Micu-Klein
Samuil Micu-Klein, born Maniu Micu, was a Romanian Greek-Catholic theologian, historian, and philologist, a leading figure of the Transylvanian School who wrote the first printed Romanian grammar and co-authored the 1791 Supplex Libellus Valachorum.
Samuli Ripatti
Samuli Ripatti is a Finnish statistical and medical geneticist, Director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland and Professor of Biometry at the University of Helsinki.
Samundra Vallis
Samundra Vallis is a 110-km-wide valley (vallis) on Venus at 24.1S, 347.1E, IAU-approved in 1994 and named after Samundra, an Indian river goddess, per the USGS gazetteer.
Samunnati
Samunnati is a Chennai-headquartered agri-focused non-banking financial company founded in 2014 by Anil Kumar SG, providing working-capital finance and market linkages to farmer producer organizations across India.
Samurai (2002 film)
Samurai (சாமுராய்) is a 2002 Tamil vigilante action thriller, Balaji Sakthivel's directorial debut, starring Vikram as a medical student who abducts corrupt officials after his friend's suicide; music by Harris Jayaraj.
Samurai (Lupe Fiasco album)
Samurai (2024) is the ninth studio album by Lupe Fiasco, released by 1st & 15th/Thirty Tigers. The eight-track, 30-minute Soundtrakk-produced concept album imagines Amy Winehouse as a battle rapper, inspired by her Salaam Remi voicemail in the documentary Amy.
Samurai (侍)
Samurai (侍), Japan's premodern hereditary warrior class, from the verb saburu 'to serve'. Ruled via shoguns from 1192, about 1.9 million people in Edo times, mounted archers rather than swordsmen, abolished in the 1870s Meiji reforms.
Samurai Assassin (侍)
Samurai Assassin (侍, Samurai) is Kihachi Okamoto's 1965 black-and-white Toho jidaigeki starring Toshiro Mifune as ronin Niiro Tsuruchiyo, who joins the 1860 plot to assassinate Ii Naosuke at Sakurada Gate, unknowingly killing his own father.
Samurai Champloo
Samurai Champloo (サムライチャンプルー, Samurai Chanpurū) is a 26-episode anime TV series directed by Shinichirō Watanabe at Manglobe, aired on Fuji TV 2004–2005, blending Edo-period samurai action with a Nujabes-led hip-hop soundtrack.
Samurai cinema
Samurai cinema, known in Japanese as chambara, is the Japanese film genre of sword-fight films, a subset of period drama, peaking in the mid-1950s and early 1960s.
Samurai Cop
Samurai Cop is a 1991 direct-to-video action film by Iranian expatriate director Amir Shervan, starring Mathew Karedas as Joe Marshall fighting the Yakuza Katana gang in Los Angeles; a so-bad-it's-good cult classic with a 2015 sequel.
Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance
Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance, aka Revenge of the Samurai Cop, is Gregory Hatanaka's 2015 crowdfunded sequel to the 1991 cult action film Samurai Cop, reuniting Mathew Karedas and Mark Frazer 25 years later against the reorganized Katana crime syndicate.
Samurai Gourmet (野武士のグルメ)
Samurai Gourmet (野武士のグルメ, Nobushi no Gurume) is a Japanese food franchise by Masayuki Kusumi: an essay, a manga with Shigeru Tsuchiyama, and a 12-episode 2017 Netflix drama starring Naoto Takenaka and Tetsuji Tamayama.
Samurai Jack
Samurai Jack is Genndy Tartakovsky's American animated action series (Cartoon Network 2001–2004; Adult Swim revival 2017) about a samurai flung by the demon Aku into a dystopian future, told through minimal-dialogue visual storytelling, with 8 Emmy wins.
Samurai Pizza Cats
Samurai Pizza Cats, the Saban dub of Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (キャッ党忍伝てやんでえ), is a 1990 Tatsunoko anime about pizza-delivering ninja cats, famous for its scriptless gag dub written without Japanese translations.
Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast from the Past!
Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast from the Past! is an upcoming 2D action RPG by Dutch studio BLAST ZERO and publisher Red Dunes Games, based on Kyatto Ninden Teyandee, announced February 2025 for all major platforms with the original Japanese and English voice casts.
Samurai Rebellion (上意討ち 拝領妻始末)
Samurai Rebellion (上意討ち 拝領妻始末, Joi-uchi: Hairyo tsuma shimatsu) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1967 black-and-white Toho jidaigeki starring Toshiro Mifune as samurai Isaburo Sasahara, who defies his clan lord to protect his son's marriage to Lady Ichi; FIPRESCI Prize winner at Venice 1967.
Samurai Shodown
Samurai Shodown (Samurai Spirits, サムライスピリッツ) is SNK's weapon-based fighting game series launched on Neo Geo in 1993, set in 1788 Japan, known for high-damage swordplay, the Rage Gauge, and a 2019 Unreal Engine 4 reboot.
SAMURAI spectrometer
The SAMURAI spectrometer, short for Superconducting Analyzer for Multi-particles from Radioisotope beams, is a wide-acceptance spectrometer at RIKEN's RI Beam Factory in Wako, Japan, used for radioactive-beam reaction experiments since 2012.
Samurai Sudoku
Samurai Sudoku, also called Gattai-5 or 5-way Sudoku, is a Sudoku variant of five overlapping 9×9 grids in an X shape with four shared 3×3 boxes, 369 cells total, solved as one puzzle.
SAMURAI trial
SAMURAI (NCT02439320) was Eli Lilly's Phase 3 trial of lasmiditan 100 mg and 200 mg versus placebo for acute migraine in 2231 adults; both doses met pain-free and most-bothersome-symptom-free endpoints at 2 hours.
Samurai Warriors (戦国無双)
Samurai Warriors (戦国無双, Sengoku Musou) is Koei Tecmo and Omega Force's hack-and-slash series, launched 2004, set in Japan's Sengoku period; five mainline games, over 8 million units sold, latest entry Samurai Warriors 5 (2021).
Samurai-dokoro
The Samurai-dokoro (侍所) was the bureau of the Kamakura and later Muromachi bakufu charged with controlling the shogun's vassal warriors, created by Minamoto no Yoritomo in 1180 and headed first by Wada Yoshimori.
Samus Aran
Samus Aran (サムス・アラン) is Nintendo's intergalactic bounty hunter, protagonist of the Metroid series since 1986. Chozo-raised warrior in a Chozo Power Suit; her endgame gender reveal in Metroid was a landmark; stars in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (2025).
Samuthirakani
Samuthirakani (சமுத்திரக்கனி), born 1973 in Rajapalayam, Tamil Nadu, is an Indian actor and director in Tamil cinema who won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for Visaranai.
Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm & Zoo
Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm & Zoo (ฟาร์มจระเข้และสวนสัตว์ สมุทรปราการ), founded 1950 by Uthai Youngprapakorn in Samut Prakan, Thailand, is the country's first crocodile farm, holding over 60,000 crocodiles, CITES-registered as A-TH-501, and known for crocodile shows and welfare criticism.
Samutthakhot Kham Chan
Samutthakhot Kham Chan (สมุทรโฆษคำฉันท์) is a Thai narrative poem telling the adventures of Prince Samutthakhot and Pintumat, begun under King Narai and completed by Paramanuchit Chinorot about 160 years later.
Samvardhana Motherson International
Samvardhana Motherson International Limited is an Indian Tier-1 automotive component supplier founded in 1975 as a silver trading company, now operating in over 44 countries.
Samvel
Samvel (Armenian: Սամվել) is an 1886 historical novel by the Armenian writer Raffi, set in fourth-century Armenia torn between Persia and Byzantium and regarded as the peak of Armenian historical fiction.