Janus Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the veteran Japanese auteur's first samurai period feature, which stars Masahiro ...

The groundbreaking classic reshaped action filmmaking and earned international acclaim that still holds today.

Janus Films has acquired all U.S. rights to The Samurai And The Prisoner, the latest feature by Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi ...

Samurais have been a big part of movie history and samurai movies have created some of the most compelling characters in film ...

Seven Samurai can be considered the best action movie of time because of its stakes, characters, and the way it feels epic and intimate all at once.

This balance is wonderfully executed in Eiichi Kudo’s thematic trilogy, which features some of the director’s most iconic works— 13 Assassins (1963), The Great Killing (1964) and 11 Samurai (1967). If ...

Despite its short runtime, Sanjuro delivers a complete and engaging story. The movie was also a major box office success. It ...

Clint Eastwood's William Munny looks off into the distance against a blue sky in Unforgiven - Warner Bros. Westerns have been linked with Japanese samurai films since before World War II. In fact, ...

There have been many great fight scenes throughout the history of cinema. You can go back to Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies, ...

If you’re into wild genre mashups and classic Japanese action cinema, this one’s going to hit just right. A new trailer has ...

There aren't many movies with better screenplays than The Godfather, except for arguably Casablanca, The Princess Bride, and ...

Janus Films has secured all U.S. distribution rights to “The Samurai and the Prisoner,” Kurosawa Kiyoshi‘s adaptation of ...