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 ...

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

One of the more violent samurai movies, Shogun Assassin follows Lone Wolf (Tomisaburo Wakayama) as he and his young son embark upon a journey through the Japanese countryside not for a better life ...

Japan has selected 'Kokuho' as its Oscars entry for Best International Feature Film. The film is set in the world of Japanese traditional theater.

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

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 ...

The Japanese-dubbed film with English subtitles follows a group of unemployed samurai tasked with stopping a sadistic lord whose rise to power could plunge the land into a war-torn future.

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 ...

Blue Eye Samurai season 2 heads to London. Discover new plot twists, returning characters, and why fans should watch the ...