The San’in region, comprising the Tottori and Shimane prefectures, is a natural haven for those seeking a side of Japan ...

The British Museum is hosting a major exhibition about samurai, which looks to challenge what you think you know about the famed warrior class. After 1615, half of all samurai were actually ...

A groundbreaking new exhibition at the British Museum reveals the untold history of Japan’s Samurai class, including the fact that half of them were women. Samurai is the first exhibition to explore ...

Samurai is one of those words that vibrates with mystique and excitement. And suggestions of oceans of blood. But it’s a long peacetime period that is at the heart of this exhibition. From the 1330s ...

High Noon: a Western on the West End with stand-offs, shoot-outs and Billy Crudup? Yes please Hollywood’s Eric Roth has written his first play. It’s an adaptation of the classic Western High Noon and ...

Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch Japan’s pre-modern warrior elite ...

Star and action choreographer Junichi Okada is promising an even "more energetic and action-packed” batch of episodes, after Season 1 topped Netflix’s global non-English chart and spent four weeks at ...

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, ...

Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Thus when fighting throughout the series, Kenshin instead uses the blunt end of his sword and refuses to kill his ...

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 ...

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 ...