The director of 'Cloud' and 'Cure' returns to Cannes with a period piece set in 16th-century feudal Japan, when warring ...

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

This stately, slow-burning drama by Kiyoshi Kurosawa harks back to classic jidaigeki Samurai films of the 1940s and 1950s. It ...

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

Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit ...

Like its predecessor, Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Yōtei celebrates renowned Japanese filmmakers through special presentation modes. Where Ghost of Tsushima had only a black-and-white homage to ...

Salman Esmail, a former police officer, made a Japanese-language period short film, 'Katana', set in 1862 Japan. He ...

Seeing cinematic inspiration in video games is nothing new. In 1988, Snatcher saw a young Hideo Kojima doing the best Blade Runner impression that the MSX2 platform would allow; even Spielberg himself ...

Even if you might be tired of hearing the word "masterpiece," that's what classics like Cinema Paradiso, Magnolia, and ...

Keanu Reeves is returning to the world of animation by lending his voice for 'Hidari,' an action-packed Edo period samurai ...