Veteran Japanese producer and Tokyo Film Festival programmer Shozo Ichiyama selects his all-time favorite samurai films, ...

Samurai stories, an essential genre of Japan’s film industry since its inception, have been enjoying a global resurgence lately. FX and Disney’s smash-hit period series Shogun, produced by and ...

Samurai are in the zeitgeist right now after the explosive success of FX's long-in-the-works adaptation of James Clavell's Shogun; that series won universal critical acclaim and was renewed for ...

“There is a record that the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu ... with no separation between samurai with katana and merchants.

Pacific Overtures,' Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 musical about the forcible opening of Japan to foreign trade, is ...

Nikko, located in Tochigi Prefecture, served as the spiritual center of the Tokugawa Shogunate, founded during Japan’s Edo ...

Classic action movies hold a special place in our hearts and some are more than deserving of an expanded story as a streaming ...

‘Shogun’, the acclaimed FX series ... All this leads to ‘Seven Samurai’, the best samurai movie of all time. ‘Seven Samurai’ is the great masterpiece of Akira Kurosawa.

Gallons of blood and plenty of thematic thunder distinguish Kazuya Shiraishi’s energetic action film set during the Boshin ...