A longer running time would have given the main story time to breathe but Fukasaku's tale of shogun shenanigans is still ...

Japanese director Takeshi Kitano poses for portraits for the film "Outrage Coda" at the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy on Sept. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File) ...

From medieval beginnings, the samurai have inspired art, fiction and films, from Shōgun to Star Wars. But their true story is more complex and surprising than we might realise.

A Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood's classic 1992 Western Unforgiven might seem like a bad idea on paper, but the 2013 remake received positive reviews.

The war- and campaign-hardened Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) seems to have lost sight of the meaning of life. He once fought in Antietam (Maryland) and Gettysburg (Virginia), returning victorious ...