While it’s possible to call a good many historical movies from Japan “samurai films,” such movies can vary when it comes to the other genres they belong to. Certain samurai movies emphasize ...

Action movie fans looking to watch one of the greatest samurai movies of all time will soon be able to do so — and for free. Seven Samurai will be making its way onto Tubi. The film, which was ...

Netflix has revealed its 2025 slate of Japanese films and television series, with the streamer offering a rich mix of period series, action films and intriguing unscripted offerings. Hirokazu ...

TOKYO — Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror films set within the neurotic realism of the modern day, will bring his signature edge-of-your-seat storytelling to a genre he ...

It's hard to nominate the four most significant samurai movies of all time, but you do have to consider classics like Seven ...

"Give me a year of your life for freeing you. I'll put your skills to good use." Well Go USA has revealed an official US trailer for a Japanese action thriller called Samurai Fury, which is just the ...

As the biggest festival in one of the world’s biggest film markets, the Tokyo International Film Festival has always been held under the glare of painfully high expectations. But taking place towards ...

'Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner," produced by 130-year-old Japanese studio Shochiku, will be unveiled to buyers by Charades at the EFM in Berlin Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa‘s (“Wife of a ...

In this period drama, a vagrant samurai slays with a sword and his mastery of the game Go.

Critically acclaimed director Hiro Murai is set to make his feature film debut with A24. The director has worked in television and music before but has never directed a full-length movie. Murai has ...

Japan is mounting its strongest presence at the Berlin Film Festival in years, with seven films across sections.