It can take more than a year to make a single razor-sharp katana. In Japan, business is booming for the few remaining smiths ...

Through June 14, the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art is presenting “Art of the Samurai: ... as well as gold-decorated wooden containers once owned by Princess Toyo-hime and designed for teeth dying.

Shigemi Ikeda, the award-winning art director behind several huge anime titles like My Hero Academia and Afro Samurai, is ...

Seizo Fukumoto has died 20,000 agonizing deaths. He’s been gored by samurai and gunned down by gangsters. His bloodied body has slammed into trees, tumbled down stairs and crashed through ...

Legendary comic book artist and Milestone Media co-founder Denys Cowan is the subject of a new artbook. Check out an exclusive preview of Graphic Samurai: The Art of Denys Cowan.

In the 1950s, films such as the Seven Samurai by Akiro Kurosawa were extremely popular both in Japan and abroad. But waning interest is now leaving many of Japan’s silver screen swordsmen out of ...

Interviewing Seizo Fukumoto, the star of Ken Ochiai's backstage drama 'Uzumasa Limelight,' I wished I had brought a video camera, instead of my voice recorder and notepad. As he talks, this ...

Discover the captivating world of samurai at the North Carolina Museum of Art's "Samurai: Making of a Warrior" exhibit, now open through February 2, 2025.

A new Art of Fighting game and a Samurai Shodown action RPG are currently in development at SNK, according to the studio’s Joshua Weatherford. “There’s a lot of stuff in the works ...