Batman: The Animated Series has one of the best voice casts ever assembled. But what happened to the show's stars after it ...

Genndy Tartakovsky's "Samurai Jack" was unlike anything on Cartoon Network in the 2000s. It wasn't zany like "Ed, Edd n Eddy." It didn't have a kid protagonist like "The Grim Adventures of Billy & ...

Samurai schools are failing our children. There, I said it. Kyohachi-ryu School, “the origin of swordsmanship” if its brochure is to be believed, has one teacher and eight students — okay, so they’ve ...

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 ...

In 1582, the first Japanese diplomatic mission bound for Europe set off from Nagasaki. Conceived of by Jesuit missionaries, the Tenshō embassy was composed of four young Japanese noblemen who over the ...

Last Samurai Standing has now landed on Netflix, a six-episode series which takes place in the post-samurai era in Japan, where 292 fallen samurai find themselves lured into a game of survival, where ...

As the Meiji Era begins, an honorable samurai is forced to fight again, so that his family may live. The six-episode Last Samurai Standing, directed and co-written by Michihito Fujii, and based on the ...

Jack Dorsey is capitulating to the rise of regulated digital dollars. The Bitcoin maximalist who long argued the cryptocurrency could anchor everyday payments is now steering Block Inc.’s Cash App to ...

Surrounded by uniformed snipers, a crowd of contestants gather at a secret location. Soon they will be forced to fight to the death, spurred on by the slim chance of winning a colossal cash prize.

Junichi Okada stars, produces and did the action choreography on this six-part series about a nefarious game pitting samurai against each other in 19th-century Japan. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...

Dexter’s Laboratory creator Genndy Tartakovsky is also known for creating culty action-packed cartoons, including Samurai Jack, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Primal, and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. But ...