Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But few recent games parade their kino inspirations as blatantly as Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima (2020). The open-world epic ...

While it’s possible to call a good many historical movies from Japan “samurai films,” such movies can vary when it comes to the other genres they belong to. Certain samurai movies emphasize ...

In this period drama, a vagrant samurai slays with a sword and his mastery of the game Go.

It's hard to nominate the four most significant samurai movies of all time, but you do have to consider classics like Seven ...

'Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner," produced by 130-year-old Japanese studio Shochiku, will be unveiled to buyers by Charades at the EFM in Berlin Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa‘s (“Wife of a ...

As the biggest festival in one of the world’s biggest film markets, the Tokyo International Film Festival has always been held under the glare of painfully high expectations. But taking place towards ...

A Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood's classic 1992 Western Unforgiven might seem like a bad idea on paper, but the 2013 remake received positive reviews.

The 37th edition of the Japanese festival will close with the feel-good French-Italian comedy 'Marcello Mio,' starring Chiara Mastroianni. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief Produced by Japanese ...

Japan is mounting its strongest presence at the Berlin Film Festival in years, with seven films across sections.