Afro Samurai, a 2007 adaptation of Takashi Okazaki's manga, follows Afro (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson), a samurai on a quest ...

The director of 'Cloud' and 'Cure' returns to Cannes with a period piece set in 16th-century feudal Japan, when warring ...

Record Asian champion Japan is aiming to upset the established order once again after a memorable 2022 campaign.

The Japanese auteur arrives at Cannes with castle thriller 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' - and two of his most celebrated ...

Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown - or in this case, the samurai topknot - in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s absorbing, ...

The actor breaks down key moments in the series so far.

Samurai artist Tetsuro Shimaguchi, head of the samurai school Kamui, is training a new generation of youth from around the world in the ways of the sword, as well as the warrior's mindset. Tetsuro has ...

Star Wars and the samurai tradition share a fascination with the masks we show to the world, and how living behind one can fundamentally reshape the soul of the wearer. It's a connection that dates ...

Star and action choreographer Junichi Okada is promising an even "more energetic and action-packed” batch of episodes, after Season 1 topped Netflix’s global non-English chart and spent four weeks at ...

Kurosawa Kiyoshi has spent a career trapping his characters in the present tense - in the buzzing infrastructure of contemporary Tokyo, in the ambient dread of the networked age, in the particular ...