IMHO, Ran is the best samurai movie of them all, and it’s on Amazon Prime. It doesn’t have an English dub, but the visuals are so spectacular, and the performances so big and emotive, that you ...

On Dec. 1, 2003, Warner Bros. premiered 'The Last Samurai' in Los Angeles. By Kirk Honeycutt On Dec. 1, 2003, Warner Bros. premiered The Last Samurai in Los Angeles. The drama went on to be ...

Also known by its English name, A Tree In The Sun, the manga is a classic that dates from the 1980s and was adapted into a samurai anime television series in the year 2000.

A24s Upcoming Samurai Movie Will Be The Perfect Big Screen Companion For Shogun. ... an English sailor who becomes shipwrecked in Japan and is irrevocably changed by the land and its people.

He was, of course, making a joke. But that joke has come to life all these years later in "The Last Samurai" -- with Cruise at the center of a "Ran"-like, faux-Kurosawa samurai movie -- and the ...

The Twilight Samurai: Starring Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa. Directed by Yoji Yamada. Written by Yamada and Yoshitaka Asama. (Not rated. In Japanese with English subtitles. 129 minutes. At the ...

That’s when “47 Ronin” became the Titanic of samurai movies. The creative team scouted Japan, New Zealand and Australia before deciding that none of those regions looked ancient enough.

The Hidden Blade: Military drama. Starring Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu and Yukiyoshi Ozawa. Directed by Yoji Yamada. (In Japanese with English subtitles. Not rated. 132 minutes.) The samurai ...