As is the case for period dramas such as The Last Samurai, it often becomes difficult to discern between what is true and ...

Last year, the filmmaker credited ... “There’s an important scene toward the end of the film on the eve of the samurai’s final battle,” the director tells me. “He was to say goodbye ...

The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is ...

Junichi Okada will star, produce, and choreograph the action of Netflix's new battle royale series Last Samurai Standing.

The castle was besieged during the 1887 Satsuma Rebellion, on which the 2003 Hollywood movie The Last Samurai is very loosely based, and was defended for more than 50 days by a vastly outnumbered ...

Shogun - the razor-sharp, critically-acclaimed samurai epic that's transported viewers back to feudal, war-torn Japan since ...

“Martial arts” is a pretty broad qualifier, as far as film genres go—we’re talking samurai (chambara) films and pulpy kung-fu dubs, modern historical epics and blockbuster videogame fodder ...

April 19 (UPI) --Netflix has announced the new series Last Samurai Standing. The streaming service said in a press release Thursday that it is developing the show with Japanese actor Junichi Okada ...

“This film, and the last couple years ... “Sometimes if I do samurai movie, I try to make it more authentic. But this one has an original world, like a future Japan.” He then added happily ...

a brave and loyal Samurai, fights to practice and preserve his master's teachings amid a civil war. With friends on both side will he cave to temptation, or stand on principle and for freedom?

Yutaka Takenouchi (Captain Oba)Sean McGowan (Captain Lewis)Mao Inoue (Chieko Aono)Treat Williams (Colonel Wessinger)Toshiaki Karasawa (Horiuchi)Daniel Baldwin (Colonel Pollard)Sadao Abe (Suekichi ...

In 1944 the American military lands on the shores of Saipan Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men ...