Millencolin, Murder By Death, O'Death, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, Cigar, Pennywise, Dropkick Murphys, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, The Stooges, Gray Matter, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Casualties, The Blue Meanies, The Seatbelts, The Spitvalves and some other bands that dont come to mind
The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Resevoir Dogs, 13 monkeys, Game of Death, Die Hard (all of them), Braveheart, Gladiator, Sin City, The 13th Warrior, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Ace Ventura (1 and 2), Jarhead, Old Boy, Sympathy For Mr.Vengeance, SharkSkin Man and PeachHip Girl, The Seven Samurai, The 47 Ronin (1 and 2), The Musashi Trilogy, Yojimbo......i think i should stop there
Heroes, Lost, The Shield
Secret Tactics, The Legends of Kern, Treasure Island, Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, LOTR trilogy, Desperation (the steven king book, not some romance novel), Hagakure, Gates of Fire, Spartan, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and of course...Rikki-Tikki-Tavi