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 ...

Enthusiasts of sweeping Westerns are set for a real treat as MGM+, the broadcaster behind programmes like Robin Hood, has ...

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 ...

We look ahead and pick the best exhibitions to see in London's galleries and museums opening in 2026.

Adam Savage recently spent time at the Met Museum with conservator and armorer Ted Hunter, and the experience led him to ...

Netflix’s “Last Samurai Standing” is a TV lover’s fever dream: Take the violent survival games and critiques of capitalism of “Squid Game,” but set them in an era of Japan similar to that of the ...

This is a series some have called the “Japanese Squid Game” and the description is fair, though it must be noted that the South Korean dystopian drama (2021 to 2025) came after Battle Royale (2000), a ...