KYOTO--Massive garden stones, the largest of which weighs 9.8 tons, were excavated at the residence here of a shogunate family in the Muromachi Period (1336-1573), in what archaeologists believe ...

Casting a household-name actor to headline a period epic would normally be seen as a safe bet, but the producers of “Muromachi Outsiders ... but this is a performance with real gravitas.