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Previously, he was a senior editor at GQ. To celebrate its 70th anniversary, Akira Kurosawa’s black-and-white epic Seven Samurai is coming back to theaters with a new 4K restoration.
“Seven Samurai,” made in Japan in the early 1950s, was by far the most expensive film then made in the country. And it required the longest shoot, in part because the exhausted director needed ...
The first samurai to commit seppuku in recorded history was Minamoto no Tametomo, a rogue warlord who was banished to the island of Oshima for his part in the Hogen Rebellion.
For hundreds of years, expert swordsmiths forged blades for Japan’s warriors, including the famed samurai. Early records show craftsmen’s names in the thousands, but a decline of the art began ...
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