George Lucas' favourite Akira Kurosawa movie is 'Seven Samurai,' even though 'The Hidden Fortress' is the one that inspired ...

Japanese drama delves into the realities of aging family members and the sense that modernity often leaves older generations ...

Casey Chong with ten great neo-Western movies you need to see… The old-fashioned John Wayne era of Western movies may be long gone but certainly not forgotten. And while the Western genre itself is no ...

The idea to have Mifune came from the game's director trying to visualize "what it is about samurai that makes them actually ...

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 ...