The first installment in Hiroshi Inagaki’s epic and magisterial Samurai Trilogy, Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, which will be screened this Sunday at the McNay Art Museum, follows a young bandit and his ...

True trilogies are becoming something of a rarity in Hollywood. What was once considered the classic template for a film series to follow to tell a complete story has since faded, thanks to the ...

Veteran Japanese director Yamada Yoji, best known for his works in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series and Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade and Love and Honour), will be commemorated ...

In 2020, deep in worldwide quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the developers at Sucker Punch Productions unleashed Ghost of Tsushima, the acclaimed open-world samurai adventure that offered ...

Akira Kurosawa is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of all time and now two of his best films, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, are finally available in a 4K Blu-ray Criterion Collection set. Even ...

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