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 ...

SAMURAI Reincarnation was an unlikely career turn for yakuza legend Kinji Fukasaku when it first surfaced in 1981. It's not the film maker's greatest or even most successful work – for that, you'd ...

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 ...

Revenge is a classic samurai cinema trope, and we love samurai cinema. Atsu is going to hunt down the members of the Yotei Six that did her wrong and get revenge. And in the process of hunting them ...

Season 2’s community theme kicks off with the patriarch of modern action cinema, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. An epic story of samurai helping a small village community defend itself against ...

TOKYO, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Hollywood 3D movies may be huge in Japan, but a wave of new samurai films threatens to tarnish their image by dazzling audiences with old-school action and some clever new ...

There are plenty of run-of-the-mill bad movies, and then there are the bad movies that are so bad that they are entertainingly awful. The Fifth Reel’s Awful Cinema series is showcasing some of the ...