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

Samurai stories, an essential genre of Japan’s film industry since its inception, have been enjoying a global resurgence lately. FX and Disney’s smash-hit period series Shogun, produced by and ...

Yahya Sinwar's final moments, under attack by Israeli forces in Gaza, have inspired artwork around the world, with one Japanese newspaper publishing an illustration of the Hamas leader as a Samurai ...