Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (“Wife of a Spy”) very first period film and most ambitious feature to date, “Kokurojo: ...

Samurai movies are some of Japan's best cinematic exports, and there are a ton of classic and modern samurai films available on streaming today. Ripped straight from Japan's extensive history, the ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...