The most intense martial arts movies ever made include modern classics, like The Raid and its sequel, alongside downbeat ...

While there are more fantastic Japanese films than one list can cover, here are the highest-rated on IMDb.

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

Tatsuya Nakadai is backlit by sun as the counterfeit leader in Kagemusha - Toho Akira Kurosawa was one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world when, in the mid-1960s, he decided to leave his ...

One of the most beautiful things about samurai films is how directors both balance action and drama and oscillate between the two. In some of the best samurai movies, the planning serves to increase ...

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, ...

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