Samurai are in the zeitgeist right now after the explosive success of FX's long-in-the-works adaptation of James Clavell's Shogun; that series won universal critical acclaim and was renewed for ...

Classic action movies hold a special place in our hearts and some are more than deserving of an expanded story as a streaming ...

Nikko, located in Tochigi Prefecture, served as the spiritual center of the Tokugawa Shogunate, founded during Japan’s Edo ...

“I saw [David Lynch’s] Dune a couple of times. I don’t need to see that story again,” Tarantino confessed. “I don’t need to ...

It’s been close to three years since the January 2022 reveal of Showa American Story, whose B-movie style trailer depicting 1980s America as a colony of Japan became a viral hit.  Updates have been ...

Veteran Japanese producer and Tokyo Film Festival programmer Shozo Ichiyama selects his all-time favorite samurai films, ...

“Black Ox,” a powerful rural drama from Japan’s Tsuta Tetsuichiro, has been picked up for world sales by Hong Kong and Beijing-based agency Asian Shadows. The film has its world premiere on Friday in ...

Gallons of blood and plenty of thematic thunder distinguish Kazuya Shiraishi’s energetic action film set during the Boshin ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While not a full-blown successor to the PS5, the PS5 Pro seems like a solid halfway point ...

While Landgraf claims that he was never given an outright "no" about making the Hiroyuki Sanada-led samurai epic, the phrase he did hear quite a bit was "are you sure?" It's a question he was ...

including last year’s Oscar winner Godzilla Minus One and Disney’s hit samurai series Shogun. Japan held its general election over the weekend, resulting in a brutal set of results for the ...