Succession with samurai, Ran is another Shakespeare adaptation from Akira Kurosawa. This time, the great director has turned the tragedy of King Lear into an epic war movie about the destructive ...

To mark its 70th anniversary, the BFI has released dazzling new 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions crammed with special features and ...

Shiraishi Kazuya’s brutal Boshin War period piece about a group of death-row criminals recruited to defend a dilapidated fortress challenges the notion of the noble samurai.

Samurai stories, an essential genre of Japan's film industry since its inception, have been enjoying a global resurgence ...

“This is the last work of the genius director Sadao Yamanaka, who died at the age of 29 during World War II ... The movie features Takashi Shimura, best known as the lead samurai in Akira ...

10 Classic Samurai Movies to Watch While You Wait for ‘Shogun’ Season 2 Veteran Japanese producer and Tokyo Film Festival programmer Shozo Ichiyama selects his all-time favorite samurai films ...

At HiSui Tokyo we offer instruction on the dignity, conduct and movement of the samurai. "The Sword of Doom" (1966) A ronin is walking through a pine forest. He shuffles forward using suriashi ...

Taking place in between Shinkenger Acts 22 and 23, the Shinkengers battle the newly revived Kusare Gedoushu Aburame Manpuku and his army for three days. The wounded and tired Shinkengers nearly ...

Samurai television and filmmaking, referred to as jidaigeki in Japanese (which translates as ‘period drama’), spans multiple sub-genres and dates back over 100 years, saddling Japan’s so-called Golden ...