LOS ANGELES -- U.S. streaming giant Netflix will produce and release its first original Japanese historical drama in 2025, highlighting the growing weight of non-English-language content.

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 promise ...

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Speaking on the sidelines of this week’s 30 th Busan International Film Festival, Okada — a veteran now of two decades in cinema — explained that the aim was to produce Japanese period drama and ...

The hit FX samurai series is the first non-English-language show to win best drama, while stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai are the first Japanese actors ever to win Emmys. By Patrick Brzeski Asia ...

John Wick star Hiroyuki Sanada's new series Shōgun has debuted with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel of the same name, the 10-episode limited series is set in the ...

In perhaps the first Google press conference ever to involve a speaker being abducted by backflipping ninjas before a sword-wielding video blogger came to the rescue, YouTube today announced a new ...

Japanese heart throb-turned-tough guy Junichi Okada hopes to have a global hit on his hands with the upcoming Netflix tentpole Last Samauri Standing, and the formula he believes will work is a ...