Japanese can roughly be split into two camps: those equipped with an encyclopedic knowledge of history and those who have only a vague idea of who the samurai were or that a Shogun once lived in what ...

While NHK's Taiga dramas have the budget and talent to overcome such problems, other productions filmed at the studios in Kyoto do not. When it's all said and done, Kasuga writes, the period drama ...

The Japanese samurai action drama is based on the popular manga series Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem. The post Song of the ...

With TBS' dropping of the hour-long period drama "Mito Komon" from its Monday night 8 p.m. slot after a run of 42 years, many entertainment critics are saying the genre of "jidai-geki" (period dramas) ...

Japan has opened a real-life samurai theme park where visitors can take part in live dramas, and even try adults-only historical experiences.

HBO Max has acquired international streaming rights in more than 100 countries to the forthcoming Japanese live-action manga adaptation Song of the Samurai.

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

Actor Hiroki Matsukata, who appeared in many samurai dramas, has died of brain lymphoma. He was 74. Matsukata, whose real name is Koju Meguro, made his debut in the 1960s, and appeared in many samurai ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hollywood 3D movies may be huge in Japan, but a wave of new samurai films threatens to tarnish their image by dazzling audiences with old-school action and some clever new twists to ...