Bushido: Way of Total Bullshit Everything Tom Cruise taught you about samurai is wrong December 8, 2014 • words written by Rich • Art by Aya Francisco The term bushido calls forth ghosts of Japan's hallowed samurai class. A class so bent on preserving honor, they'd rather slit their own bellies in ritualistic suicide than live a shamed existence. In The Last Samurai, bushido melds with Nathan Algr