‘An exploration of foreign films’ is a series of movie reviews focusing on films by international directors. “Sania, you just have to watch this director’s movies,” my dad said at dinner one night.

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...

Each Friday, we recommend seven Old Movies to Watch Now, all of which come recommended by one of our critics and can currently be screened online. Read the review, watch the movie, feel accomplished. ...

Set for screening at 6 p.m., the 162-minute movie will be shown at the Nasseri Hall of the IAF with Persian subtitles, ILNA reported. The film is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and ...

Akira Kurosawa had three periods, all of which offered masterpieces. There was his early period, up to 1950's Rashomon. This includes the excellent Stray Dog. At the time Akira Kurosawa was refining ...

Amazing as this may seem from 30 years’ distance, by the late 1970s Akira Kurosawa was widely seen as a washed-up filmmaker. His black-and-white classics like “Rashomon,” “The Seven Samurai” and ...

This article was published more than 16 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. And so we come to Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980), being released Tuesday on Blu-ray ...

It's the 70th anniversary of "Seven Samurai," but the Japanese master had way more to offer than just his best-known titles. Even among the more underrated Akira Kurosawa films are timeless ...

Living near Paris, Iyane (He/Him) is mainly covering Japanese media on DualShockers. He started his writing career in 2018 after being scouted for his blogging and talent for live-translating Japanese ...