Samurai stories, an essential genre of Japan’s film industry since its inception, have been enjoying a global resurgence lately. FX and Disney’s smash-hit period series Shogun, produced by and ...

There have been countless samurai movies made over the decades, with most of the best ones unsurprisingly getting made in Japan. These films are often – but not always – tied to the action genre, ...

The 1950s and 1960s were fantastic decades for Japanese cinema, and classics like Ikiru and Onibaba are worth watching if you ...

Beginning with the Uncharted series, and later perfected in The Last of Us, Sony Interactive Entertainment has made playable cinematic experiences its bread and butter over the last two decades.

NEW YORK — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To ...

The first installment in Hiroshi Inagaki’s epic and magisterial Samurai Trilogy, Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, which will be screened this Sunday at the McNay Art Museum, follows a young bandit and his ...

Akira Kurosawa is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of all time and now two of his best films, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, are finally available in a 4K Blu-ray Criterion Collection set. Even ...

June 6 (UPI) --Janus Films announced Thursday that Seven Samurai will return to theaters in July. Toho Co Ltd. has done a 4K restoration for the film's 70th anniversary. Seven Samurai will play ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...