You're lucky you weren't born a samurai. But samurais are lovable.

Life was hard, and short, as a samurai. In battle, at home, at their work desk, death was always right around the corner, even after Japan had entered a long period of peace. But their stoicism is to be loved. Show host Kyota Ko describes the tight-rope walks samurais lived during the Edo Period.

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