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, ...
Samurai movies are some of Japan's best cinematic exports, and there are a ton of classic and modern samurai films available on streaming today. Ripped straight from Japan's extensive history, the ...
Director Akira Kurosawa broke all the rules—and budgets—of Japanese filmmaking with his 1954 classic. But the final product ...
There aren't too many martial arts movies that are essentially perfect, but some classics are, like Police Story, Enter the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Netflix has rolled out a fresh slice of samurai action with its new original series Last Samurai Standing , and the show has ...
When Montopolis brought its last experimental score to Texas Theatre, they performed a custom soundtrack to Man With A Movie Camera. The show was, hands down, the best date night happening in Dallas ...