IMHO, Ran is the best samurai movie of them all, and it’s on Amazon Prime. It doesn’t have an English dub, but the visuals are so spectacular, and the performances so big and emotive, that you ...

Thanks to these Japanese samurai movies, cinema lovers can be transported back in time and learn about how samurai lived and fought their battles.

By the time the samurai film genre, along with Japanese cinema itself, announced its presence on the global stage at the dawn of the 1950s with Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, thousands of tales ...

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 at the Venice ...

Japanese cinema has produced countless cultural gems that have gone on to become influential classics, from Spirited Away to Seven Samurai.

Movie buffs are missing out if they haven't yet experienced the following black & white Japanese classics.

Masaki Kobayashi made some of the greatest Japanese movies of all time, from his epic The Human Condition trilogy to the samurai classic Harakiri.

As Japan modernized in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Samurai became obsolete, but they are far from forgotten. They live on in various forms of media, which include live-action movies, novels ...