Kurosawa’s 1949 thriller probes post-war morality in a Tokyo whose ruins and US occupation mostly remain just out of shot, in ...

Akira Kurosawa is the William Shakespeare of cinema. Whether implicitly or explicitly, every film, to one degree or another, is influenced by the legendary Japanese director's work. Kurosawa's ...

The fact is, 21st Century Hollywood no longer portrays the horrors of nuclear war because too many people feel removed from the fear of it. So what about a movie in which the entire focus is that fear ...

The movie cemented Tsukamoto as a respected visionary who belongs in the same conversation as filmmakers like Takashi Miike ... directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Set against an uptick in young ...

Prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike has a history of putting shocking imagery ... By telling the story of ghosts seeping into the world through the internet, writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa ...

Based on the popular eponymous video game franchise by Capcom, ‘Onimusha’ is directed by Takashi Miike and Shinya Sugai ... (‘Seven Samurai’ and ‘Throne of Blood’ by Akira Kurosawa). You can watch ...

Also demonstrating the strength of indie animation is the lauded “Memoir of a Snail” from Adam Elliot (2004 animated short ...

There are, unsurprisingly, seven interesting and unique samurai who fight together in Seven Samurai, but which of the bunch is the best overall?

Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece has always been worthy of that, and probably will be until the world ends, however that might be. It’s not just one of the most influential action movies of all time ...

Lauded Japanese auteur Miike Takashi sat down for an in-conversation event with longtime collaborator and producer Misako Saka at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where he is also ...