Via is a cinephile and a bookworm who loves fantasy and cozy gaming as well as talking about pop culture both online and offline. Filmmakers all over the world have been inspired by Japanese movies ...

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive trailer for Bushido, an upcoming Japanese revenge thriller from Film Movement. The ...

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 ...

Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (“Wife of a Spy”) very first period film and most ambitious feature to date, “Kokurojo: ...

Ready to press play on 'Japan Samurai: Niiro Tsuruchiyo' without the hassle? Trying to locate where to stream, rent, buy, or watch how to watch the Yasushi Sasaki directed movie can be harder than it ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike's "13 Assassins" is a surprisingly conventional remake of a 1963 samurai movie, but he injects enough horror and humour to win over viewers ...

Get out the whetstone and the blade, kids. Two of the most extreme Japanese samurai movies ever made are headed (or beheaded) for Boulder this weekend. Kihachi Okamoto’s Sword of Doom (1966) stars the ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

Shōgun is a Hulu and FX historical fiction series set during the Edo Period, following European traders who arrive in Japan, becoming favoured allies of a feudal lord. The series is based on a novel ...

Akira Kurosawa loved the films of Charlie Chaplin and John Ford. The Japanese director’s movies often drew on his wide-ranging cinephilia.