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

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

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

Modern horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa makes his first samurai film with The Samurai And The Prisoner, both intelligent and ...

Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit ...

Visitors to the British Museum's highly popular samurai exhibition probably thought they were looking at a national symbol ...

The actor breaks down key moments in the series so far.

Has anyone ever seen the anime film, Ninja Scroll? I swear, Sword of the Samurai shares so many similarities with that film, I mean, as far as presentation and character development is concerned.

George Lucas never hid the fact that he based large portions of the original Star Wars on samurai movies he loved. Specifically, Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. Samurai movies were Japan’s ...