2. 13 Assassins – YouTube Set in 1844 during the final years of Japan's feudal era, the movie follows veteran samurai Shinzaemon Shimada (Koji Yakusho), whose mission is to assassinate the ruthless ...

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 ...

When visiting a museum to learn about the samurai, one might expect to see suits of armor and elegant swords. The British Museum’s new exhibition, “Samurai,” which runs through May 4, does indeed ...

'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 ...

Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch Japan’s pre-modern warrior elite ...

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.

A new Art of Fighting game and a Samurai Shodown action RPG are currently in development at SNK, according to the studio’s Joshua Weatherford. “There’s a lot of stuff in the works,” Weatherford said. ...