Director Akira Kurosawa broke all the rules—and budgets—of Japanese filmmaking with his 1954 classic. But the final product ...

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 into existence. “Seven ...

Few genres capture the essence of honor, vengeance, and existential struggle quite like samurai films. Rooted in historical narratives, these movies have long been a cornerstone of Japanese cinema, ...

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Tatsuya Nakadai, who has died aged 92, was an actor who became one of postwar Japanese cinema’s most significant leading men; ...

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