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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday, I commented that Last Samurai Standing on Netflix had an exceedingly rare double 100% Rotten Tomatoes scores across both critics and audiences. Today, that’s almost still true, albeit the ...

Samurai schools are failing our children. There, I said it. Kyohachi-ryu School, “the origin of swordsmanship” if its brochure is to be believed, has one teacher and eight students — okay, so they’ve ...

This is a series some have called the “Japanese Squid Game” and the description is fair, though it must be noted that the South Korean dystopian drama (2021 to 2025) came after Battle Royale (2000), a ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Everyone's favorite amateur film and TV critic and master game designer Hideo Kojima has once again chimed in with his thoughts on a popular new show, heaping praise on Netflix's hit series Last ...

The showdown comes early. It also comes as a surprise. On one side: Ukyo Kikuomo, the upright and elegant Guardian God of the Court Nobles. On the other: Bukotsu Kanjiya, the dirt-encrusted madman who ...

Netflix’s “Last Samurai Standing” is a TV lover’s fever dream: Take the violent survival games and critiques of capitalism of “Squid Game,” but set them in an era of Japan similar to that of the ...

The ritual of drinking tea in Japan, known as chado, evolved over centuries into a codified practice, steeped in Zen thought, mindfulness, and simplicity. Kimono-clad women participate in a Japanese ...