As a cinema audience we have been so overloaded with action films over the years that is rare these days that we sit in a ...

One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord ...

In 13th-century Mongol warrior hordes and their leader, Batu Khan, control most of the known world. As the Mongols move towards Europe they invade the last Russian principality standing in their way.

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Known as the Taghbach, this group migrated south from the Mongolian steppe and ruled a ... inspired a fictional character in two Walt Disney movies based on the Chinese fable.

Jin Sakai is a young samurai and an unlikely survivor of a brutal Mongol attack against his clan ... from typical character builds like thief and warrior, to trying to play the whole game as ...

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.

That’s the reality for Moon Bin Kim, a high school student plagued by vivid nightmares of being Sa Kyung Kim, a warrior caught in the turmoil of the Mongol invasions. But when those dreams ...

Boom! Studios’ recent action comic BRZRKR falls pretty firmly under pop culture’s tacitly understood “ Dogstar Rule,” i.e., the general acknowledgement that some things are inherently more interesting ...