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 ...

Cinematography can transform a movie into a work of art ... Ideal for fans of historical splendor. Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ran’, shot by Takao Saito, turns Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ into a vivid samurai ...

Akira Kurosawa's war film Ran has been labelled as 'the greatest war movie ever made' and is available to stream on the BFI's ...

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

After more than half a century in cinema, Japan's most famous film-maker committed his own dreams - which roughly spanned his then 80 years - to celluloid. He attracted the support of an array of ...

If there is an indelible image from the 1988 classic anime film Akira , this is it: Shōtarō Kaneda atop his famous motorcycle, headed straight toward the viewer.

Enjoy – and don’t forget the popcorn. Akira Kurosawa’s samurai movies show the influence of Hollywood Westerns; Hollywood returned the favour by adapting The Seven Samurai as a Western.