Today on Variant, we're looking to the possible future of Star Wars by highlighting the Legends character we would most like to see appear on the big screen - Darth Revan. Also, the Buy List makes its ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Star Wars has become one of the most beloved sci-fi franchises in history. Writer/director George ...

Toei is one of Japan’s biggest producers of samurai movies and TV series, and 50 years ago the company hit upon the idea of combining some of its filming sets with a theme park. The result was Toei ...

Junichi Okada stars, produces and did the action choreography on this six-part series about a nefarious game pitting samurai against each other in 19th-century Japan. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Considering the character’s longevity, it’s perhaps unsurprising that many actors have been ...

Yesterday, I commented that Last Samurai Standing on Netflix had an exceedingly rare double 100% Rotten Tomatoes scores across both critics and audiences. Today, that’s almost still true, albeit the ...

In 1582, the first Japanese diplomatic mission bound for Europe set off from Nagasaki. Conceived of by Jesuit missionaries, the Tenshō embassy was composed of four young Japanese noblemen who over the ...

Last Samurai Standing has now landed on Netflix, a six-episode series which takes place in the post-samurai era in Japan, where 292 fallen samurai find themselves lured into a game of survival, where ...

Samurai schools are failing our children. There, I said it. Kyohachi-ryu School, “the origin of swordsmanship” if its brochure is to be believed, has one teacher and eight students — okay, so they’ve ...