.Action movies are one of the most popular film genres in America. In recent years, movies like Top Gun: Maverick, Spider-Man ...

The history of samurai in the area now known as Kumamoto, but for much of its existence as Higo Province, goes back around a ...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' is an engrossingly elegant adaptation of Honobu Yonezawa's prizewinning historical novel.

In Japan and abroad, the samurai are often romanticized as a monolithic group who held themselves to the high moral code of conduct known as Bushido (“the way of the warrior”). While this image holds ...

Reading a few books by samurai there was one thing I saw repeated again and again and again that surprised me. It has nothing to do with swords, fighting, or strategy. Actually, quite the opposite.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa takes on the samurai film for the first time with ‘The Samurai And The Prisoner,’ a Janus Films murder ...

"Believe in me! Believe in our castle's strength!" Janus Films has revealed their main official US trailer for the film The ...

Surrounded by uniformed snipers, a crowd of contestants gather at a secret location. Soon they will be forced to fight to the death, spurred on by the slim chance of winning a colossal cash prize.