But that’s the origin story not just for Shujiro, hero of Last Samurai Standing, but several other of the surviving contestants in this big sinister game called “Kudoku.” (More on that later.) There’s ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, who has died aged 92, was an actor who became one of postwar Japanese cinema’s most significant leading men; ...

In a 2005 interview, the actor said that in his twenties, he was carrying the load of "everyone's masterpieces." He worked ...