The production company behind the live-action adaptations of One Piece and Cowboy Bebop is presently developing a live-action version of the 2004 anime series Samurai Champloo, reports Variety.

Shinichirō Watanabe is also attached to the in-development project. Shinichirō Watanabe is also attached to the in-development project. is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The ...

You could be forgiven for thinking that the UK has gone samurai mad of late. The samurai-inspired Assassin’s Creed Shadows was the fastest-selling video game in Britain in 2025, while Sony’s ...

High Noon: a Western on the West End with stand-offs, shoot-outs and Billy Crudup? Yes please Hollywood’s Eric Roth has written his first play. It’s an adaptation of the classic Western High Noon and ...

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 ...

A museum packed with samurai weapons and armor stands near the iconic Kintaikyo Bridge in Iwakuni, a short drive from the Marine Corps air station in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. The Kashiwabara ...

Yesterday, I commented that Last Samurai Standing on Netflix had an exceedingly rare double 100% Rotten Tomatoes scores across both critics and audiences. Today, that’s almost still true, albeit the ...

Last Samurai Standing, an all-new live-action series that is set in Japan during a time when the feudal samurai era is coming to an end, came out on Netflix on November 13. Adapted from a Japanese ...