Tom Cruise went out of his way to train for The Last Samurai and didn't even take an upfront salary for the movie.

Reiner Knizia's new two-player board game Iliad is great but no epic, with games thankfully only taking about a half hour to ...

Samurai Academy: Paws of Fury builds on Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, a 2022 animated film many people watched once and then immediately forgot existed. The movie had some charm and a couple of ...

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 ...

Netflix’s new Japanese hit, Last Samurai Standing’s creator, Michihito Fujii, has now teased plans for Season 2 and 3, fueling fan excitement for the series that has already got a perfect 100% Rotten ...

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.

In the breathless opening one-er of Last Samurai Standing, samurai protagonist Shujiro Saga (Junichi Okada, also a producer and action choreographer) cuts through dozens of men as he charges across a ...