LOS ANGELES – Actor Junichi Okada has a very particular set of skills. Although best known in Japan as a movie star, the 45-year-old is also a martial arts whizz with a black belt in Brazilian ...

In 1582, the first Japanese diplomatic mission bound for Europe set off from Nagasaki. Conceived of by Jesuit missionaries, the Tenshō embassy was composed of four young Japanese noblemen who over the ...

Last Samurai Standing has now landed on Netflix, a six-episode series which takes place in the post-samurai era in Japan, where 292 fallen samurai find themselves lured into a game of survival, where ...

After watching the first episode of Last Samurai Standing, one thing becomes apparent very quickly: This show rules. I mean it is mint. I mean I walked around my apartment after it was over, saying ...

As the Meiji Era begins, an honorable samurai is forced to fight again, so that his family may live. The six-episode Last Samurai Standing, directed and co-written by Michihito Fujii, and based on the ...

Surrounded by uniformed snipers, a crowd of contestants gather at a secret location. Soon they will be forced to fight to the death, spurred on by the slim chance of winning a colossal cash prize.

Squid Game has crowned its winner, Alice's Borderland story has ended, and Shōgun is drawing up battle plans to return in a year or so. Yet fans of these shows needn't despair, not when Last Samurai ...

Hui-Ying Kerr previously received funding from the AHRC (now UKRI), for her doctorate in History of Design (2010 - 2013) on Japan in the 1980s Bubble Economy, including an AHRC-IPS grant for her ...

Countless films and filmmakers have been influenced by auteur filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s body of work, especially his 1954 epic “Seven Samurai.” The film, which celebrated its 70th anniversary last ...

James is a writer for GameRant. He fell in love with video games as a child and has yet to recover. He is still obsessed with Ocarina Of Time and regularly lectures people on how Metal Gear Solid ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...