>>49334306I don't think that description is quite right. Although the west views samurai as completely virtuous, in Japanese drama you often see corrupt samurai who were basically drunk on power and nobody could legally stop them (the "crossroad killing" that night slash was named generally happened because these people would "test out their sword" on random people just because they could). Usually in period fiction, a Ronin has to wander into town and protect the citizens from the tyranny of the samurai. It's pretty similar to Westerns, where a nameless gunman will ride into town, find out that the sheriff has been taxing the people into oblivion or something, then have a shootout with them.
