Everyone's favorite amateur film and TV critic and master game designer Hideo Kojima has once again chimed in with his thoughts on a popular new show, heaping praise on Netflix's hit series Last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fter waiting years, or even decades, it can be an amazing feeling to see a franchise return with a good game. For example, ...

The presenter’s Tuesday night report from outside the WACA in Perth went off the rails when he suddenly pulled up in the middle of a sentence. Leonard was reporting on further delays to the iconic ...

The ritual of drinking tea in Japan, known as chado, evolved over centuries into a codified practice, steeped in Zen thought, mindfulness, and simplicity. Kimono-clad women participate in a Japanese ...

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Reporter Casey Phillips sits down with Head Coach Todd Bowles following the Bucs' Week 14 game against the New Orleans Saints in the 2025 NFL season. HC Bowles discusses the ...

In the new Prime Video movie Playdate, Alan Ritchson is back in action mode, working alongside Kevin James to protect his son, CJ, from mercenaries. However, the blooper reel, which CBR can ...