Janus Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the veteran Japanese auteur's first samurai period feature, which stars Masahiro ...

The groundbreaking classic reshaped action filmmaking and earned international acclaim that still holds today.

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Janus Films has acquired all U.S. rights to The Samurai And The Prisoner, the latest feature by Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi ...

Shinichiro Watanabe's 'Cowboy Bebop' prequel, 'Samurai Champloo,' is a digital streaming success on Apple before the ...

This balance is wonderfully executed in Eiichi Kudo’s thematic trilogy, which features some of the director’s most iconic works— 13 Assassins (1963), The Great Killing (1964) and 11 Samurai (1967). If ...

Samurai Rebellion, Blue Spring, and Distant are excellent forgotten Japanese movies that deserve to be rediscovered.

Clint Eastwood's William Munny looks off into the distance against a blue sky in Unforgiven - Warner Bros. Westerns have been linked with Japanese samurai films since before World War II. In fact, ...

Despite its short runtime, Sanjuro delivers a complete and engaging story. The movie was also a major box office success. It ...

If you’re into wild genre mashups and classic Japanese action cinema, this one’s going to hit just right. A new trailer has ...

Janus Films has secured all U.S. distribution rights to “The Samurai and the Prisoner,” Kurosawa Kiyoshi‘s adaptation of ...