It’s a role which might appear a natural progression for Okada, who is certified to teach Kali and Jeet Kune Do — a martial ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

In an X (formerly Twitter) post, which Kojima has since deleted, the Death Stranding creator heaped immense praise on Netflix’s Last Samurai Standing series, going as far as to say that it made his ...

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 ...

Dexter’s Laboratory creator Genndy Tartakovsky is also known for creating culty action-packed cartoons, including Samurai Jack, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Primal, and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. But ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook If you’re missing the protagonist from Blue Eye Samurai, Mulan offers a different perspective (but ...

Netflix unveiled the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Japanese historical action drama series Last Samurai Standing. The show comes on the streaming platform on November 13, 2025. Last Man ...

Looking to expand your cinematic horizons? Don’t miss “Seven Samurai” at the Coolidge Corner Theatre as part of its ongoing Akira Kurosawa retrospective. If you’re interested in supporting local ...

TOKYO — Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror films set within the neurotic realism of the modern day, will bring his signature edge-of-your-seat storytelling to a genre he ...

Countless films and filmmakers have been influenced by auteur filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s body of work, especially his 1954 epic “Seven Samurai.” The film, which celebrated its 70th anniversary last ...