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This weeks retro trailer is for the crazy cool 1982 martial arts action film The Challenge . The film was directed by John Frankenheimer and it stars Scott Glenn and Toshiro Mifune . The story follows ...

Researchers in Cyprus have uncovered a hidden portrait beneath a Titian painting. A Tokyo exhibition uses modern technology to showcase Hokusai's art. Concurrently, Argentina breeds genetically edited ...

The more I’ve learned about Japanese history the more I’ve grown to believe that it is not just about the samurai that populate the period films by other directors. Miyazaki wanted to focus on the ...

TOKYO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Visitors can step back in time to Japan's samurai era in an new Tokyo ... by the master of Edo Period woodblock art. Technical wizardry from digital imagery firm Ars ...

Drums thundered and priests chanted as sumo's newest grand champion strode onto the public stage Friday in a ceremony to mark his promotion to the ancient Japanese sport's highest rank. Mongolian-born ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Drums thundered and priests chanted as sumo's newest grand champion strode onto the public stage Friday in a ceremony to mark his promotion to the ancient Japanese sport's highest ...

This new book by Hongō Kazuto covers all the major, classical developments you might expect to find in a conventional history ... of the samurai class can also be seen in the Japanese religious ...