There is a Netflix series called 野武士のグルメ and translated as Samurai Gourmet. I
know there's an adaptation because many places outside Japan knows the Samurai
word.

Is these words in Japanese interchangeable? Which is usual to use?
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word-choice usage nuances
野武士 and 侍 interchangeability
侍 is a 武士 who has loyalty to a lord while 野武士 is one that doesn't have that
relationship. So they are basically not interchangeable.

That said, it's not impossible to figuratively use 侍 to refer to those people.
(武士 is called samurai in English, which looks a constant figurative use of the
word from a Japanese point of view.)
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Here 野 is a character that means "stray", "wild" or "feral". 野武士 (aka 野伏)
refers to unofficial worriers who were more like guerrillas or bandits (and
sometimes mercenaries) in modern terms. It's not interchangeable with proper
武士 who belonged to the noble class.
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