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 ...

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Between the tens of millions of tourists visiting and the soft power success of films and drama series set in Japan, the ...

Meet Shogun, one of Showa American Story's major villains ... In August, IGN exclusively revealed boss character Gokou, the Texan governor turned cowboy-samurai who sold his state to Japan. And with ...

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 ...

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During the festival's star-packed opening ceremony, Japan's new prime minister Shigeru Ishiba appeared via video to express his commitment to boosting support for the country's film sector.

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 ...