He wildly swings his katana, has pride to give, a drop of tea in the corner of his mouth, and never hides! Samurai and film have found each other more than a century ago, and his influence on Hollywood westerns and pop culture, in general, have turned him into a living archetype of film history. During the 2016 edition of Offscreen, a new touch was added: Rauni the Viking samurai appeared from the deepest Finnish dens, drunk from alcohol, love and an enlightened Japan. The encounter made us dizzy, wanting us to dig deep into cinematic history to incorporate the modest release of "Samurai Rauni" with unknown gems containing the same type of non-Japanese samurai – Gaijin, in other words. This quest has led us to many hours of exploitation cinema, expecting that the mere mention of "samurai", "kung fu" or "ninja" in the title would suffice to make fans go crazy... with a lot of semantic confusion as a result. There's a ninja (?) in "Black Samurai". And the first movie that places cowboys against Samourai, “De samurai en de ruiter” is also known as “Der Schrecken von Kung Fu” (The Fear of Kung Fu). But most of all, we get to know the funny and charismatic "Samurai Cop" – but be careful; he's a cop with a pulled katana fighting the "Fudge Fujiyama". Reasons enough to show this ultimate pulp movie on the big screen. Our quest also brought us to films that mix the katana with the colt to bare the similarities between both worlds. Finally, there are the movies that follow the concept truthfully: the man who learns the bushidô without being Japanese, the pure "samurai gaijin", following the example of the first non-Japanese samurai ever: Yasuke, a black slave who became a samurai in the 16th century. It'll become an unlikely five-week-long battlefield with five movies and a series of short films – colorful, funny, powerful, and controversial!