Art travels, inspires, and transforms, and the relationship between Western and samurai films is a testament to this. Emerging from opposite ends of the globe, the two seemingly distinct genres, ...

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Plenty of movies are celebrating their 20th anniversaries without much fanfare in 2026, including Electroma, Ten Canoes, and ...

“Bushido” is Japanese for “the way of the warrior,” a moral code and guiding principle in samurai culture. It is also the title of Kazuya Shiraishi’s new film in which history, philosophy, and ...

Revenge is a classic samurai cinema trope, and we love samurai cinema. Atsu is going to hunt down the members of the Yotei Six that did her wrong and get revenge. And in the process of hunting them ...

"A return to the golden age of samurai cinema." Well Go USA has revealed an official trailer for 11 Rebels, an action movie set in feudal Japan made by veteran action filmmaker Kazuya Shiraishi. After ...