"These puppets are about three feet tall ... of Japan in the 1600s and focuses on a female samurai, Mizu, who is half-white and half-Japanese. Mizu seeks vengeance against four white men ...

Mizu, the half-Japanese samurai at the center of the story ... a mix of the usual animation and segments shot as if it were a puppet theater, lending an air of classic storytelling to the modern ...

The "Assassin's Creed" series of video games is adored for painstaking historic accuracy, but also sparks controversy with heavy use of artistic license -- most recently with a black samurai in the ...

The samurai belonged to the intellectual elite of Japanese society and practiced creative disciplines like calligraphy and poetry that often contrasted with the violent nature of battle.

Since being tapped in late 2021, Souyri says he has answered "a hundred or more questions" from the development team, ranging from how salt was produced to how puppet shows were staged.

Ubisoft has finally announced its long-awaited Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan. Subtitled Shadows, it follows dual protagonists – a ninja named Naoe and a samurai based on the ...