Twenty years later, another female assassin got her own version of a Japanese swordcrafting story, in Amber Noizumi and ...

By J. Hoberman Few movies have been more influential than “Seven Samurai,” an existential action film directed by Akira Kurosawa that, at longer than three hours, seemingly muscled its way ...

For its 70th anniversary, Akira Kurosawa's classic film "Seven Samurai" is getting a touch-up and a victory lap. A 4K restoration of the 1954 film was shown last month at the Cannes Film Festival ...

Four newly translated Japanese texts describe how ritual samurai beheadings were supposed to take place during the Edo period and later. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

These values began to develop very informally as early as the ninth century among the samurai warrior class, as various ideas circulated about the characteristics of an ideal warrior. Having ...

Previously, he was a senior editor at GQ. To celebrate its 70th anniversary, Akira Kurosawa’s black-and-white epic Seven Samurai is coming back to theaters with a new 4K restoration. Arguably ...

After ruminating on the idea for Blue Eye Samurai for quite a while, Amber Noizumi and Michael Green had difficulty finding the right medium – until they decided the story needed to be animated ...