Art travels, inspires, and transforms, and the relationship between Western and samurai films is a testament to this. Emerging from opposite ends of the globe, the two seemingly distinct genres, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 1962 samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa has earned a new spot among cinema’s greatest works, as Sanjuro continues to gain ...

Some of the best martial arts movie climaxes of all time can be found in classics like Police Story, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, and ...

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 ...

Clint Eastwood's William Munny looks off into the distance against a blue sky in Unforgiven - Warner Bros. Westerns have been linked with Japanese samurai films since before World War II. In fact, ...

Janus Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the veteran Japanese auteur’s first samurai period feature, which stars Masahiro ...

You've been involved with several different genres. A samurai epic is certainly one of those things that I feel is a bit trickier to master. What are your biggest influences as far as filmmakers or ...

SEVEN SAMURAI Not pictured: one of the samurai. Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven is far from a perfect movie, but it perfectly embodies the American character. It’s a pompous, superficial adventure with ...

When a director films a national sports team winning a world title, he is mostly recording a ceremony that has already ...

Janus Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the veteran Japanese auteur’s first samurai period feature, which stars Masahiro Motoki and Masaki Suda and is based on an award-winning Japanese novel. By ...