Veteran Japanese producer and Tokyo Film Festival programmer Shozo Ichiyama selects his all-time favorite samurai films, ranging from Kobayashi's 'Samurai Rebellion' and Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood' ...

Like its predecessor, Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Yōtei celebrates renowned Japanese filmmakers through special presentation modes. Where Ghost of Tsushima had only a black-and-white homage to ...

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 ...

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There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook If you’re missing the protagonist from Blue Eye Samurai, Mulan offers a different perspective (but ...

It's the 70th anniversary of "Seven Samurai," but the Japanese master had way more to offer than just his best-known titles. Even among the more underrated Akira Kurosawa films are timeless ...

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There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

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 ...

Seeing cinematic inspiration in video games is nothing new. In 1988, Snatcher saw a young Hideo Kojima doing the best Blade Runner impression that the MSX2 platform would allow; even Spielberg himself ...