Samurai is a 1957 autobiographical book by
Saburo Sakai co-written with Fred Saito and
Martin Caidin. It describes the life and career of
Saburo Sakai, the Japanese
combat aviator who fought against American fighter pilots in the
pacific theater of
World War II, surviving the war with 64 kills as one of
Japan's leading
flying aces. Caidin wrote the prose of the book, basing its contents on journalist Fred Saito's extensive interviews with Sakai as well as on Sakai's own memoirs.