Is it possible to meet a real samurai in Japan or is it all a forgotten history?

Question:

I watch a lot of samurai movies so I want to meet a samurai.

Answer:

The class system was abolished 140 years ago or so, so you won't find anyone who was officially from the samurai class and still alive today.

You can still find families that are descendants of the old samurai class. They aren't tourist attractions, so none of them are at any tourist village doing historical recreations.

Then again, a historical recreation theme park would be the perfect place for you to meet a "real" samurai. The Edo Wonderland Nikko Edo-mura theme park in Nikko would be the right place for that. Unfortunately, they are indefinitely closed following the March 11 earthquake, so you'll have to wait for them to reopen.
http://www.edowonderland.net/