Via is a cinephile and a bookworm who loves fantasy and cozy gaming as well as talking about pop culture both online and offline. Filmmakers all over the world have been inspired by Japanese movies ...

Jeremy has more than 2000 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Yes, Akira Kurosawa is basically synonymous with his most famous work, Seven Samurai, and though the man himself would probably be fine with that, a lot of Kurosawa's fans are not. It's true: As much ...

Okada Junichi and Fujii Michihito bring realism, scale and emotion to Netflix Japan series ‘Last Samurai Standing.' ...

Billed as Netflix Japan's tentpole title for the year, Last Samurai Standing stars Junichi Okada, as one of 292 fallen samurais who assemble for a survival game.

One of the most influential character archetypes in film history is adapting to contemporary social mores and finding new life on Japan’s screens big and small. By Gavin Blair By the time the samurai ...

TOKYO — Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror films set within the neurotic realism of the modern day, will bring his signature edge-of-your-seat storytelling to a genre he ...

Japan has been a source of some of the greatest games, graphic novels, TV series, and, of course, movies ever made. Japanese cinema has produced countless cultural gems that have gone on to influence ...

Netflix has shared a new trailer for one of its most ambitious Japanese originals, Last Samurai Standing, ahead of its global debut. The trailer teases a high-stakes story set in a time of shifting ...