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 ...

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 ...

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 ...