Tom Cruise traveled back to Feudal Japan in one of his best and most divisive action movies, The Last Samurai. Directed by Edward Zwick, the film has garnered a strong fan base since its release ...

Every movie buff knows that westerns influenced samurai movies, which inspired westerns, which influenced the samurai genre ...

The period action drama, which was nominated for four Oscars, also made it into Cruise’s Top 10 movies of all time. The Last Samurai is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Renewed for a second season by Netflix, Blue Eye Samurai is all set for a 2026 release. The show, created by Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, is an animated action series, the first season of which ...

From that point on, it is a headlong, sometimes desperate action movie, as various full-on assaults – and even a sneaky counter-strike at an opium den – unfold. When the brave samurai inevitably start ...

The Tokyo International Film Festival has selected the samurai action thriller 11 Rebels as the opening movie of its upcoming 37th edition. The film is directed by Shiraishi Kazuya from a decades ...

By J. Hoberman Few movies have been more influential than “Seven Samurai,” an existential action film directed by Akira Kurosawa that, at longer than three hours, seemingly muscled its way ...

where it will look to tap into the resurgent interest in samurai action cinema following the smash success of FX’s Shogun. It stars popular local actors Takayuki Yamada and Taiga Nakano.