Japan's thousand-year-old samurai horse festival has survived wars, earthquakes and a nuclear disaster. Monma worries that ...

The 47 Ronin: Discover the legendary tale of samurai honor, deadly revenge, and the most daring black ops in ancient Japan.

The J-horror master tries his hand at a classic jidaigeki with this plodding detective story set within the walls of a besieged 16th century castle.

Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown - or in this case, the samurai topknot - in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s absorbing, ...

The Japanese auteur arrives at Cannes with castle thriller 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' - and two of his most celebrated students, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Koji Fukada, competing for the Palme d'Or ...

'Seven Samurai' changed action movies forever.

The director of 'Cloud' and 'Cure' returns to Cannes with a period piece set in 16th-century feudal Japan, when warring ...

A novice filmmaker bet everything on a period drama — and won 7 Japan Academy Awards! "A Samurai in Time" is an against-all-odds story of passion, grit, and samurai spirit. Director Yasuda Junichi ...

Star and action choreographer Junichi Okada is promising an even "more energetic and action-packed” batch of episodes, after Season 1 topped Netflix’s global non-English chart and spent four weeks at ...

Kurosawa Kiyoshi has spent a career trapping his characters in the present tense - in the buzzing infrastructure of contemporary Tokyo, in the ambient dread of the networked age, in the particular ...