Samurai movies are some of the best examples of moviemaking, but there are many films that deserve praise that modern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Samurai stories, an essential genre of Japan’s film industry since its inception, have been enjoying a global resurgence lately.

The director laces a 16th-century period drama with a series of mysteries in his latest film, which centers on a samurai who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But few recent games parade their kino inspirations as blatantly as Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima (2020). The open-world epic ...

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 ...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs a satisfying period piece about the tense collaboration between a lord and a cunning envoy.

There may not be a single movie more influential than Seven Samurai, and for good reason. Akira Kurosawa’s epic tale of a group of warriors hired by a village to protect them from bandits is so ...

A poster designed by Peter Strausfeld for Akira Kurosawa's 1954 drama "Seven Samurai" starring Toshiro Mifune. The Samurai existed from the 12th century until the Meiji era in the late 1800s, which ...

Like its predecessor, Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Yōtei celebrates renowned Japanese filmmakers through special presentation modes. Where Ghost of Tsushima had only a black-and-white homage to ...

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The J-horror master tries his hand at a classic jidaigeki with this plodding detective story set within the walls of a ...