Star and action choreographer Junichi Okada is promising an even "more energetic and action-packed” batch of episodes, after Season 1 topped Netflix’s global non-English chart and spent four weeks at ...

Netflix has greenlit a second season of “Last Samurai Standing,” the Japanese period-action series that has become a global streaming hit since its debut. Set during Japan’s Meiji period in the late ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Junichi Okada talks about the new Netflix series and how his role as action planner touches nearly every part of ...

Netflix has officially renewed Last Samurai Standing for a second season. Kokushu the Manslayer, also known as Shujiro Saga, will survive to fight another day in the deadly game called Kodoku, where ...

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 ...

Netflix renews Last Samurai Standing for Season 2 The series topped charts in 88 countries and earned a Critics’ Choice nomination Junichi Okada and Michihito Fujii promise an even bigger, ...

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 ...

Steel yourself for more blades, blood and battle - Netflix's Japanese period-action series Last Samurai Standing has been renewed for a second season. The streamer confirmed the pickup on Friday in ...

Left to right: ceramic jar, jar with coins, and wooden tablet(Courtesy Saitama Cultural Deposits Research Corporation) In a town just north of Tokyo, a ceramic jar ...