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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two of the stars of Japanese history are samurai and ninja, and the Samurai and Ninja Museum in Tokyo gives guests the opportunity to learn about, and even experience, different aspects of the two ...

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, ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Through its partnership with Google’s 100 Zeros production arm, Range Media Partners has optioned Jen Marie Wiggins’ 2024 novel “The Good Bride.” The book is now in the works to be adapted for ...

“My position is that we either share everyone or forego the wedding party altogether," the bride said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She ...

The network will celebrate the beloved late filmmaker's work with a special four-film tribute on January 28. Reiner and his wife, photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, passed away on ...