Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But few recent games parade their kino inspirations as blatantly as Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima (2020). The open-world epic ...

Samurai movies are some of Japan's best cinematic exports, and there are a ton of classic and modern samurai films available on streaming today. Ripped straight from Japan's extensive history, the ...

Like its predecessor, Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Yōtei celebrates renowned Japanese filmmakers through special presentation modes. Where Ghost of Tsushima had only a black-and-white homage to ...

Tornado fuses aspects of the western and samurai-style action in atmospheric 18th-century Scotland. Critics have praised the performances of Tim Roth, Jack Lowden and newcomer Kôki who plays the ...

Art travels, inspires, and transforms, and the relationship between Western and samurai films is a testament to this. Emerging from opposite ends of the globe, the two seemingly distinct genres, ...

"Believe in me! Believe in our castle's strength!" Janus Films has revealed their main official US trailer for the film The Samurai and the Prisoner, the acclaimed Japanese samurai murder mystery film ...

Beloved specialty distributor Janus Films has acquired all U.S. rights to The Samurai and the Prisoner, the latest feature from influential Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, which will soon make its ...

You've been involved with several different genres. A samurai epic is certainly one of those things that I feel is a bit trickier to master. What are your biggest influences as far as filmmakers or ...

View post: One of the Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time Belongs to a 2011 Hit — And It Still Rocks Seven Samurai revolutionized action movies, blending genres and creating a lasting blueprint.

Ten years ago, John Maclean launched his directorial debut Slow West at the Sundance Film Festival, and in that 1860s Western film, the writer-director populated the story with immigrants from Ireland ...

Seeing cinematic inspiration in video games is nothing new. In 1988, Snatcher saw a young Hideo Kojima doing the best Blade Runner impression that the MSX2 platform would allow; even Spielberg himself ...