One Battle After Another,” a subversive comedy about radical politics, was named best picture at the 31st annual Critics ...

With countless Hollywood A-listers under one roof, this year's Critics Choice Awards was filled with a number of memorable ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Junichi Okada talks about the new Netflix series and how his role as action planner touches nearly every part of ...

Few historical warrior classes evoke the same sort of fascination as the samurai in popular culture. Samurai came to prominence in feudal Japan, notably in the Sengoku period, where figures like ...

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 ...

It’s always the ones you least suspect. Sort of. When you really think about it, “the founder of modern Japan’s police force” actually is a prime candidate for the “anti-samurai mastermind” position.

Last Samurai Standing returns the focus to a brutal Meiji-era survival game and a cast packed with Japanese heavyweights. Last Samurai Standing follows Shujiro Saga, a former samurai who enters the ...

TOKYO (AP) — “Last Samurai Standing,” a Netflix series launching on Thursday, is set in a Japan where the feudal samurai era is about to end. The hero, Saga Kokushu, played by Junichi Okada, is one of ...

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 ...

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A violent, reckless samurai is shipwrecked on a desolate island, stripped of any outlet for his rage. As he embarks on a punishing spiritual journey to quiet his turbulent mind, the line between ...