TOKYO - The "47 ronin" samurai who inspired the long-loved saga of loyalty and honor eulogized in films, books and plays are fighting a new kind of battle in urban Japan.. An apartment complex is ...

A statue of Tsukahara Bokuden (who lived 1489-1571), a famous samurai who supposedly wrote this newly translated book. (Image credit: Saigen Jiro, CC 1.0 Public Domain Dedication) ...

2003-11-30 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Tom Cruise gets top billing in "The Last Samurai," of course, but it's Ken Watanabe, in the title role, who commands the opening scene of the $100 million ...

Most of what we know about the upcoming live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian was shared by showrunner Jon Favreau (Iron Man, The Jungle Book) over Instagram, where he described the show as ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Fact is never as sexy as fiction. That's painfully obvious when comparing the in-game looks of some of Japan's most famous samurai to their real ...