Anime is packed with legendary swords, from Guts’ Dragon Slayer in Berserk to Zoro’s Enma in One Piece. Inspired by the ...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' is an engrossingly elegant adaptation of Honobu Yonezawa's prizewinning ...

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 ...

Keanu Reeves is returning to the world of animation by lending his voice for 'Hidari,' an action-packed Edo period samurai ...

Leave it to Kiyoshi Kurosawa to make a film that feels like something both new and expansive for him, just as it also ...

One of the most beautiful things about samurai films is how directors both balance action and drama and oscillate between the two. In some of the best samurai movies, the planning serves to increase ...

If you've got the day to kill and are looking for something to watch, you can get always cozy and binge these underrated ...

The stoic, kimono-clad swordsman. Sometimes depicted as a loyal defender of the shogun (feudal military leaders), or often as a wandering “ronin” (masterless samurai) for hire. These archetypes are ...

Despite this, he has also interviewed many of the greatest actors and filmmakers working today, from Martin Scorsese to ...

Game endings have been a defining part of the medium since the earliest days of home consoles and personal computers.