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 ...

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 ...

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.

Junichi Okada stars, produces and did the action choreography on this six-part series about a nefarious game pitting samurai against each other in 19th-century Japan. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...

Hui-Ying Kerr previously received funding from the AHRC (now UKRI), for her doctorate in History of Design (2010 - 2013) on Japan in the 1980s Bubble Economy, including an AHRC-IPS grant for her ...

Netflix confirmed on August 22, 2025, that Blue Eye Samurai season 2 is officially in production. The announcement came with a teaser video featuring co-creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, along ...

Samurai Parallel is a hardcore open-world experience on the Roblox platform that offers intricate combat, PvP and PvE content, a vast open world, more lush and unique than most games on the platform.

Ronald Goncalves is a contributor at DualShockers and a Venezuelan political scientist and economist who seeks to express his passion for video games through the always subjective interpretation of ...

Countless films and filmmakers have been influenced by auteur filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s body of work, especially his 1954 epic “Seven Samurai.” The film, which celebrated its 70th anniversary last ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...