Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (“Wife of a Spy”) very first period film and most ambitious feature to date, “Kokurojo: ...

Via is a cinephile and a bookworm who loves fantasy and cozy gaming as well as talking about pop culture both online and offline. Filmmakers all over the world have been inspired by Japanese movies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But few recent games parade their kino inspirations as blatantly as Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima (2020). The open-world epic ...

Japanese and American cinema have always maintained staunch and different cultural styles and identities, and yet, their influence on each other steadily mixes and mingles on both fronts. Samurai ...

THE MIYAMOTO MUSASHI SAGA AT TOEI, a five-film chronicle that captures the rise and legacy of Japan’s legendary swordsman.

Get out the whetstone and the blade, kids. Two of the most extreme Japanese samurai movies ever made are headed (or beheaded) for Boulder this weekend. Kihachi Okamoto’s Sword of Doom (1966) stars the ...

Shōgun is a Hulu and FX historical fiction series set during the Edo Period, following European traders who arrive in Japan, becoming favoured allies of a feudal lord. The series is based on a novel ...

A selection of 15 movies will feature in the Japanese Film Festival 2026, which will kick off this Friday and run until Feb ...