Veteran Japanese producer and Tokyo Film Festival programmer Shozo Ichiyama selects his all-time favorite samurai films, ...

Ishirō Honda's momentous 1954 monster film was born out of a national tragedy in Japan. It has a bleak message for humanity ...

Kurosawa respects experimentation in others too. Asked who among the younger generation of Japanese filmmakers he most admires, he quickly identified “Drive My Car” director Hamaguchi Ryusuke.

Louie Freeman looks at how, following a personal crisis later in his life, Akira Kurosawa’s film making style and the meanings behind his films changed dramatically to provide a fitting ending to his ...

Susan is Australia’s most prominent commentator on the tourism and hospitality industry and the author of seven books, including a No 1 bestseller set in India.

Featuring gorgeous animation and hypnotic sequences that sometimes feel like watching a hand-drawn nature documentary, ...

Seven Samurai director Akira Kurosawa also lavished praise on the ... Grave of the Fireflies is really one of the most ...

Highlights include a new restoration of Guillermo del Toro’s debut feature Cronos and the first volume of Chantal Akerman’s films.

The Netflix Anime YouTube channel just recently uploaded a trailer for an anime film with a very, very unique art style and ...