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‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ Review: The Verb is Mightier Than the Sword in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Dialogue-Laden Historic...

The director of 'Cloud' and 'Cure' returns to Cannes with a period piece set in 16th-century feudal Japan, when warring samurai clans fought for control of the land.   

‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Folds Nesting Mysteries into an Elegantly Classical Shogun-Era D...

Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown — or in this case, the samurai topknot — in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s absorbing, clean-lined literary adaptation, for which the veteran filmmaker...

The Samurai Detectives: Volume 2 explores money and kinship in the Edo underworld

AT HIGH NOON on a scorching summer day, retired samurai Kohei finds the fearsome Kumagoro writhing around a field in agony. The stricken man’s name translates as “demon bear,” and...

‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Adaptation Is Both a Murder Mystery and Mesmerizing Epic

Cannes 2026: The prolific director continues to show there's no one out there making movies like he is The post ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Adaptation...

The Samurai Era Is Alive and Well…If You Know Where to Look for It!

Where to catch a glimpse of the lords, ladies and daily life of Edo Era Japan The reign of samurai lords who spent money with legendary abandon in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter ca...

Seven SFF Samurai Stories

Sword-wielding samurai vs. monsters, time travel, magic, and more! The post Seven SFF Samurai Stories appeared first on Reactor.

Song of the Samurai

A live action series on the Shinsengumi—the iconic samurai force that defended Kyoto in the final years of Japan’s shogunate. Saturday on HBO Max. Outlander Binge Death in Paradise...

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Samurai

In his famous essay Orientalism (1978), the American writer Edward Said examined the ways in which Western tho […]

Nippon Sangoku The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun ‒ Episode 7

This thrilling and cathartic action leads Tonotsugu to realize a life-altering truth: Lieutenant General Sugoh is Daddy.

Yuya Wakamatsu brings fire ceremonies and samurai resolve into his second ONE Flyweight MMA World Title defense

Samurai's Honor

The Book and the Sword

You must keep one foot in the sanctuary even while going out to war; and you must go out to war even when your heart yearns to remain in the sanctuary. The post The Book and the S...

Unknown Chinese warrior story by unknown author

I was just huddling along in my local library, until I stumbled across some intriguing book telling a story about a Chinese warrior by the name of Wing Ken. According to the front...

‘Song of the Samurai’ Star Yuki Yamada Breaks Down Season 1

The actor breaks down key moments in the series so far.

Backstory Bonus: Dimiri at Gyve Prison

A new episode has been added to the database: Backstory Bonus: Dimiri at Gyve Prison

The True Story Of Mutsuhiro Watanabe, The Sadistic Japanese Prison Guard From ‘Unbroken’

As a Japanese prison camp guard during World War II, Mutsuhiro Watanabe was notorious for his cruelty toward POWs, including former U.S. Olympian Louis Zamperini. The post The True...

Samurai sword-wielding maniac on the run after trying to carve up man at party and cops can’t find him

A manhunt is on in Northern California for a man suspected of trying to kill another person with a samurai sword during a fight in Mariposa County on Saturday.

Samurai vs. Squatters: On the Street With the Hired Swords Reclaiming California Property Owners' Stolen Homes

California has failed to protect private property from squatters. Desperate owners are turning to katana-wielding enforcers to reclaim their homes.

Suzuki Masa: The Samurai’s Daughter Who Helped Found Modern Japanese Nursing

NHK's 2026 morning drama Kaze, Kaoru modeled one of its heroines on a woman most people in Japan have never heard of: Suzuki Masa.

Usagi Yojimbo- Kaitō ’84 Issue #2

Usagi must assemble his crew to rob a spear before the Neko ninja beat them to it.

THE AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER

It’s 1978, and the protagonist, known as Brother Khang, is “hung butterfly style on a barbed-wire pole” between two men—the trio are also connected by their communist ties. It’s be...

Japanese female prison’s rehabilitation goal faces health, language barriers

Seated in a wheelchair, an elderly woman bends silently as her wrinkled fingers move with surprising speed to fold pieces of coloured origami paper into intricate shapes. Beside he...

Samurai sword-wielding maniac nearly hacked off man’s arm in Venice —and he’s on the run

“The blood was pooling under his arm and on the wall really quickly.”

The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King ‒ Episode 7

Malcius could definitely learn a few things from Cersei about deprogramming from a cultlike religious experience.