However skillfully a samurai wielded his traditional weapon, the long matchlock guns were much more effective. The new shogun requisitioned a large proportion of the arquebuses in use across Japan.

Netflix has unveiled its Japanese content slate for 2025, headlined by “Last Samurai Standing,” a period drama featuring 300 samurai warriors gathered at Tenryuji Temple in Kyoto, lured by the ...

Netflix has a new samurai series on the way ... and it starts streaming very soon Shogun season 2 reveals how it's moving past the source material – with a significant time jump and these ...

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But only one of them has been described as "'Shogun' meets 'Squid Game'." That's how Netflix's Vice President of Japanese Content Kaata Sakamoto is describing "Last Samurai Standing," which is a ...

Though samurai films arguably saw a lull in recent years, the genre recently got a boost with Shogun, which broke records at the 2024 Emmys. Set in feudal Japan, Shogun follows three characters ...

Noted by Roger Ebert in his review of the film, the samurai and the villagers are of a different caste and present an imbalance of power, yet the threat of the bandits poses a greater risk to the ...