Set in medieval Japan, the samurai was a skilled fighter ready to take on his foes. Meanwhile, with Westerns, the gunslinger ...

High adventure and excitement are stamped all over this solid-core film about a group of seven ... men go to look for help and run into a sage old Samurai warrior who consents to help them.

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 ...

Fans of Kurosawa's films will likely also be interested in The Samurai Trilogy from Criterion Collection, which includes three classic samurai films from director Hiroshi Inagaki, and is on sale ...