Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Azuchi Castle is the main fortress in the titular city of Azuchi, located on the eastern side of Lake Biwa in the Omi province. It's unique for two reasons: The Samurai Daisho don't appear until ...

Netflix has greenlit a second season of “Last Samurai Standing,” the Japanese period-action series that has become a global streaming hit since its debut. Set during Japan’s Meiji period in the late ...

Netflix renews Last Samurai Standing for Season 2 The series topped charts in 88 countries and earned a Critics’ Choice nomination Junichi Okada and Michihito Fujii promise an even bigger, ...

Hollywood reactions to the death of Rob Reiner have been pouring in, and the cast of The Princess Bride is paying tribute to the late filmmaker. Reiner directed and co-produced the fantasy adventure ...

A demo for the Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny remaster is now available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam, Capcom announced. Save data from the demo cannot be transferred to the ...

Samurai schools are failing our children. There, I said it. Kyohachi-ryu School, “the origin of swordsmanship” if its brochure is to be believed, has one teacher and eight students — okay, so they’ve ...

Last Samurai Standing has now landed on Netflix, a six-episode series which takes place in the post-samurai era in Japan, where 292 fallen samurai find themselves lured into a game of survival, where ...

As the Meiji Era begins, an honorable samurai is forced to fight again, so that his family may live. The six-episode Last Samurai Standing, directed and co-written by Michihito Fujii, and based on 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.