Last Samurai Standing is now on Netflix, and the reason why critics and fans alike can see the similarities to Squid Game is ...

Japan in 1878 is not the setting for the epic clan battles that often populate the popular imagination. It's something more ...

Junichi Okada leads the show as the stoic, driven protagonist who bears some qualities of the leading men of yesteryear and contemporary epics in the 'jidaigeki' genre and the 'chambara' sub-genre ...

In the seven centuries samurai ruled Japan, women played an essential role in both creating and upholding the warrior state. Aside from a brief period in the 14th century, the emperor was little more ...

Aja Romano wrote about pop culture, media, and ethics. Before joining Vox in 2016, they were a staff reporter at the Daily Dot. A 2019 fellow of the National Critics Institute, they’re considered an ...

Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai outpaces Arcane in story, character, and focus, setting this revenge story up for an even better season 2 than Arcane’s.

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Kubasaki’s and Matthew C. Perry’s girls soccer teams have at least two things going for them entering next week’s Far East tournaments: Speed and quickness among their top ...