TOKYO — Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror films set within the neurotic realism of the modern day, will bring his signature edge-of-your-seat storytelling to a genre he ...

Countless films and filmmakers have been influenced by auteur filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s body of work, especially his 1954 epic “Seven Samurai.” The film, which celebrated its 70th anniversary last ...

Is it better for a historical film to be accurate or to be meaningful? Do films need a surrogate outsider for audiences to relate to? Why is Tom Cruise the last samurai? Spoiler … he isn’t. Cinema ...

World cinema classics got their own specially designed posters at Oxford Street’s Academy Cinema in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. This Seven Samurai poster is typical of designer Peter Strausfeld’s striking ...

You've been involved with several different genres. A samurai epic is certainly one of those things that I feel is a bit trickier to master. What are your biggest influences as far as filmmakers or ...