The director of 'Cloud' and 'Cure' returns to Cannes with a period piece set in 16th-century feudal Japan, when warring samurai clans fought for control of the land. By Jordan Mintzer Japanese genre ...
That a suit of armor opens the British Museum’s extravagant new exhibition, “Samurai,” is unsurprising. What is a surprise is how empty it looks. The armor may be topped by a dragon-crested helmet ...
The British Museum is hosting a major exhibition about samurai, which looks to challenge what you think you know about the famed warrior class. After 1615, half of all samurai were actually ...
'Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner," produced by 130-year-old Japanese studio Shochiku, will be unveiled to buyers by Charades at the EFM in Berlin Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa‘s (“Wife of a ...
Star and action choreographer Junichi Okada is promising an even "more energetic and action-packed” batch of episodes, after Season 1 topped Netflix’s global non-English chart and spent four weeks at ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Samurai and the Edo era sit at the heart of what many people imagine when they think of “Japanese storytelling,” and for good reason. The Edo period (1603-1868) represents Japan’s last breath of ...
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