Before radios, fingerprints, or modern patrol cars, samurai lawmen kept order with notebooks, nerve, and centuries-deep codes. From Edo’s street magistrates to Kyoto’s crisis-era patrols and the Meiji ...

Variety reports that Bazawule will direct a film based on the samurai Yasuke, one of the most famous samurai in history and one of the most unique, since he was Japan’s first Black samurai. Reportedly ...

Black & white Japanese classics hold up in all aspects, inspiring Western blockbusters. Zatoichi, Harakiri, and Ugetsu are ...