samurai
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George Miller Would Like to Make Another Mad Max Prequel Movie After Furiosa
The filmmaker hopes to one day expand further on the Road Warrior’s backstory.
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Netflix’s Yasuke Gives Us a First Look at Its Black Samurai
LeSean Thomas’ first post-Cannon Busters series for Netflix has been known about for a while, but now the streamer has dropped new details about its story of a wandering warrior — voiced by LaKeith Stanfield — protecting a young girl from dark forces, as well as a first look at how it’s being brought to…
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Why Did Japanese People Stop Performing Seppuku?
Seppuku, a highly ritualized form of suicide that involved cutting one’s own stomach, was once part of the bushido samurai code, and considered an honorable way to die and, until the 20th century, was quite common. So what happened? Why did this practice die out?
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Samurai Star Wars is 12 Parsecs Worth Of Neat
Now that Disney bought Star Wars, I hope they get a little bit riskier and produce new stuff loosely based on the classic trilogy. A Japanese version would look amazing, as these cool action figures demonstrate. It’s only a natural step — as George Lucas’ original saga was directly influenced by Kurosawa’s work.