The Japanese auteur arrives at Cannes with castle thriller 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' — and two of his most celebrated ...

Cannes: The J-horror master tries his hand at a classic jidaigeki, with this plodding detective story set within the walls of ...

Modern horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa makes his first samurai film with The Samurai And The Prisoner, both intelligent and ...

Shōgun left a massive void for historical drama fans, but this impressive new samurai show on HBO Max is the closest thing to ...

When coming to the Cannes Film Festival, a number of factors go into selecting films to fill your viewing schedule for the two-week celebration of cinema. One that is primary for most is seeing ...

Kurosawa Kiyoshi has spent a career trapping his characters in the present tense - in the buzzing infrastructure of ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

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

Now we have "The Mandalorian and Grogu," the franchise's attempt to bring Mando and everyone's favorite little Force-wielding gremlin to the big screen. The good news? It's entertaining. The less ...

Trilogies like The Human Condition, Three Colours, and The Godfather can all count themselves among the heaviest and darkest ...

Alexis de Tocqueville never wrote about Japan, but his warnings about democracy, centralization, and soft despotism found an ...

The Force has always had architects behind the curtain. George Lucas built the mythology, Dave Filoni guarded the sacred ...