Japan's thousand-year-old samurai horse festival has survived wars, earthquakes and a nuclear disaster. Monma worries that ...

The 47 Ronin: Discover the legendary tale of samurai honor, deadly revenge, and the most daring black ops in ancient Japan.

The J-horror master tries his hand at a classic jidaigeki with this plodding detective story set within the walls of a besieged 16th century castle.

Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown - or in this case, the samurai topknot - in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s absorbing, ...

The Japanese auteur arrives at Cannes with castle thriller 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' - and two of his most celebrated students, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Koji Fukada, competing for the Palme d'Or ...

Quote of the Day by Yamamoto Tsunetomo is a warning that pride in material possessions leads to a lack of duty and ...

'Seven Samurai' changed action movies forever.

A novice filmmaker bet everything on a period drama — and won 7 Japan Academy Awards! "A Samurai in Time" is an against-all-odds story of passion, grit, and samurai spirit. Director Yasuda Junichi ...

The director of 'Cloud' and 'Cure' returns to Cannes with a period piece set in 16th-century feudal Japan, when warring samurai clans fought for control of the land.

Kurosawa Kiyoshi has spent a career trapping his characters in the present tense - in the buzzing infrastructure of contemporary Tokyo, in the ambient dread of the networked age, in the particular ...