Veteran director Nakajima Sadao examines the appeal, background, context and transition of chambara, or period sword-fighting and samurai films, in Kyoto. Not only interviews with actors, ...

Although the samurai, a privileged warrior class deeply enmeshed in Japanese feudal society, vanished nearly a century and a half ago with the restoration of the Meiji dynasty, the cinematic icon ...

The Ghost of Tsushima movie, with a slow and steady approach, has finally found its screenwriter in Takashi Doscher, according to a report by Deadline. The film adaptation of the popular samurai game ...