Kitsune Zero sees you leaping around and throwing fireballs at the awful local samurai, helping a kind, energetic fox girl bring back peace. This game is DLC for political platformer Super Bernie… The post ‘Kitsune Zero’ Clobbers Nasty Samurai and Vengeful Spirits appeared first on Indie Games Plus.
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The Animated ‘Star Wars’ Shows Owe a Great Debt to a Classic Sonny Chiba Samurai Film
(Welcome to The Movies That Made Star Wars, a series where we explore the films that inspired, or help us better understand, George Lucas’s iconic universe. In this edition: Shogun’s Shadow.) Samurai films have been a strong influence on the Star Wars saga since its very earliest days. When George Lucas was sitting down to […]
Pop Culture Imports: A Cult Japanese Reality Show Returns, a Samurai Bloodbath, and One of the Best New Netflix Animes
(Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) It’s nearly the end of March and spring is in full bloom. Or at least, it’s supposed to be. Four days into spring, and the northeast has already been ravaged by a massive snowstorm, […]
Chambara: Stylish hide-and-seek inspired by samurai flicks
Chambara embodies stark beauty with its stylish landscapes full of brilliant gem tones or simple blacks and whites. But its colors aren’t just there for visual effect. It’s a split-screen local multiplayer game where you must elude your enemies, camouflage by changing colors, and strike when your victim least expects it. Though developer Team OK originally […]
Top Knot Detective finds 2017 absurdity in ‘90s TV’s samurai crossover hits
The trailer for the documentary, Top Knot Detective AUSTIN, Texas—“Documentary” Top Knot Detective ostensibly tells the behind-the-scenes story of a Japanese-samurai-show-turned-Australian-cult-classic of the same name. Don’t bother Googling the series, however. It doesn’t exist. (As the film’s Fantastic Fest description put it, this tale is “complete and total bullshit.”) Sometimes, you simply need an over-the-top […]
‘Batman Ninja’ Anime Arrives in 2018 from ‘Afro Samurai’ Creator
While DC Entertainment is just beginning their expansion into standalone live-action films featuring the most popular superheroes from DC Comics, the DC Universe Original Movies from Warner Bros. Animation are have been bringing some of the biggest comic book storylines to life for the past decade. Soon fans will see a Victorian spin on The […]
‘Westworld’ Season 2 Casts ‘Lost’ Actor as New Samurai Character
In case the headline wasn’t enough, we’re pretty much going straight into some pretty insane Westworld spoilers with this news. So act accordingly. Hiroyuki Sanada has joined the cast of Westworld season 2 and his character will clearly build on on the silliest and most awesome reveal from the first season finale of HBO’s incredible […]
Common Will Headline Starz’s ‘Black Samurai’ Reboot
Starz isn’t on the same level as a powerhouse premium service like HBO, but they’re still one of the big players in that space, and they’ve recently made waves by catering to underserved audiences with shows like Power and Outlander (not to mention the splash they made this year with their adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods). […]
Samurai Jack fans celebrate the series’ return to comedy in new episode
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Speedrunners Compete To See Who Can Beat Samurai Pizza Cats And Other NES Games The Fastest
Speedrunner Coolkid, aka DaBiGBoOi, won this weekend’s sixth ever Best of NES Big 20 Race, a competition in which players see who can finish a bunch of old NES games the fastest. His time? 2:44:11. It was over ten minutes ahead of the second place finisher, Jaguar King, and better than anything the players had […]