Kurosawa’s acclaimed “Seven Samurai” recently celebrated its 70th anniversary with a 4K restoration and theatrical re-release ...

Forty years ago, a clerical error and bad blood cost Akira Kurosawa an Oscar. The legendary Japanese filmmaker's Ran proved ...

Tornado is many things: a British period drama, a western, a samurai film, a coming-of-age story and an origin story. Set in ...

Julia Izumi’s self-absorbed solo show offers weak humor, clunky staging, and little emotional payoff beneath its quirky concept.

But as Japanese swords are most often associated with samurai in western culture, the name has stuck. In Japan, such films are more likely to be called chanbara (sword-action) films. This includes ...

Spike Lee has a new film working with Denzel Washington that reimagines the Japanese legend's gritty Tokyo thriller 'High and Low' ...

Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live & Active Cultures!) through June 1 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. One hour, 40 minutes without an intermission. woollymammoth.net.

As for Victor, Nick Westrate occasionally offers an appealing naturalism, but all too often he is looking hungrily at the ...

The film "Tatami," out June 13, follows an Iranian athletes pressure to bow out of a competition, rather than face Israel.

"Ran" remains my favorite Kurosawa film, though, even 40 years after its original theatrical release. I first watched it when ...