Legend says Japan was saved twice by a miracle. In 1274 and again in 1281, as Kublai Khan's Mongol forces advanced to conquer the archipelago, samurai mounted a desperate coastal defense, only for brutal typhoons to surge in and tear the invading fleets apart. Those storms became known as kamikaze: divine winds that protected Japan when no earthly power could. Josh Waller's Lone Samurai (2025) opens amid the second storm: a Mongol warship wobbling at brutal angles. Inside the ship, a single samurai cuts through invading forces as lightning flashes against the chaos. The battle unfolded in near-total darkness, engulfed by the sounds of clashing swords and spurting blood. This sequence unfurls as an austere voice intones the stakes of the battle. What begins as...
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