In 2020, deep in worldwide quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the developers at Sucker Punch Productions unleashed Ghost ...

Archetypal components of western genre – gold hunting and revenge – are mashed up with a samurai-sword-wielding heroine.

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 ...

Outside of swordplay, Onimusha: Way of the Sword introduces Oni Vision for a puzzle-solving element to progression. This new ...

Clint Eastwood parted ways with Sergio Leone, with whom he made the iconic Dollars trilogy, and rejected two of his Westerns.

It's been ten years since John Maclean burst onto the movie scene with his stylish western Slow West. His second feature, ...

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

Ballerina is a stylish new spinoff in the John Wick universe, and it’s clearly inspired by plenty of other great action ...

This 1964 Western film has been hailed by fans as "revolutionising" the genre and it is available to watch on Amazon Prime. A ...

A Fistful of Dollars, the first entry in Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood's iconic Dollars Trilogy of movies, is our TV pick for tonight.

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

Specifically, it borrows heavily from the works of Akira Kurosawa—the ... jidaigeki (period drama), echoing Kurosawa's greatest works like Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and Sanjuro.