Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But few recent games parade their kino inspirations as blatantly as Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima (2020). The open-world epic ...

It's hard to nominate the four most significant samurai movies of all time, but you do have to consider classics like Seven ...

Art travels, inspires, and transforms, and the relationship between Western and samurai films is a testament to this. Emerging from opposite ends of the globe, the two seemingly distinct genres, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clint Eastwood's William Munny looks off into the distance against a blue sky in Unforgiven - Warner Bros. Westerns have been ...

Get out the whetstone and the blade, kids. Two of the most extreme Japanese samurai movies ever made are headed (or beheaded) for Boulder this weekend. Kihachi Okamoto’s Sword of Doom (1966) stars the ...

I miss Roger Corman for a lot of reasons: he was an unparalleled raconteur, a willing mentor to promising young filmmakers (provided they could work fast and cheap), and, for a time, a great filmmaker ...

Seeing cinematic inspiration in video games is nothing new. In 1988, Snatcher saw a young Hideo Kojima doing the best Blade Runner impression that the MSX2 platform would allow; even Spielberg himself ...

Clint Eastwood's William Munny looks off into the distance against a blue sky in Unforgiven - Warner Bros. Westerns have been linked with Japanese samurai films since before World War II. In fact, ...