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Ghost of Tsushima pays homage to the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa. The enduring appeal of Kurosawa’s samurai films speaks to their unique position in the cultural canon. They are at once archetypal ...

The plot of director Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic, “Seven Samurai,” can be summed up in one sentence: Mercenaries are hired to protect a farming village from marauding bandits. Yet within that simple ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

The Japanese jack-of-all-genres becomes master of yet one more with a lush and engrossing adaptation of Honobu Yonezawa's prizewinning historical novel detailing palace intrigue in the besieged court ...

Akira Kurosawa's swan song was criminally underrated and overlooked when he made it in 1993, but now it's available on ...

Inside a feudal Japanese castle ringed by a warlord's army, a series of impossible killings begins to turn a besieged court against itself — and the cornered lord, unable to find the culprit, seeks ...

NEW YORK — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To ...