‘Last Samurai Standing’ is about what would happen if these warriors — the toughest and best in Japan — all of a sudden became common people and had to fight for their lives. Think ...

Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshii Toranaga: Based on Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toranaga was one of the five Regents of Japan before resigning. He seems to have his sights on restoring the shogunate in ...

Graphic courtesy of Adriana Colon This TV Fest, SCAD honored Hiroyuki Sanada from Shogun with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Samurai had existed in Japan for hundreds of years ... existence of shinobi at that time. The last recorded appearance of shinobi was in 1638, when the shogun hired a bunch of ninjas to crack ...

He is starring in and also serving as a producer on "Shogun ... of Japan and the Japanese characters. Sanada’s Hollywood debut came in 2003, when he appeared in “The Last Samurai,” a ...

Jerry London, the director of 1980's nine-hour miniseries Shogun, has voiced his criticisms ... pointing to the renewed focus on the intricacies of Japan's complex political system in the 17th ...

“Shogun” is set in Japan during the Sengoku (Warring States ... when he appeared in the U.S. action drama “The Last Samurai,” which was set in Japan during the Meiji Restoration and ...