Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I had the idea of writing something about the sixteenth-century Japanese warlord Mori Motonari, who had three sons," said ...

When it comes to the greatest artists in the history of cinema, Akira Kurosawa will always be right at the top of the list. The Japanese auteur made movies for decades that had a huge impact on the ...

.Action movies are one of the most popular film genres in America. In recent years, movies like Top Gun: Maverick, Spider-Man ...

Released in 1954, this three-hour, 37-minute black-and-white film has no CGI, no sequels and no franchise behind it. Even so, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai sits at No. 2 on Rotten Tomatoes with a ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. In another busy week for new releases, the horror-comedy “Forbidden Fruits” is among the ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film “Ikiru” has acquired a reputation as a corrective — “this is the one that will remind you what matters” — and reputations like that tend to flatten what is most unsettling ...

This month’s picks include epics from Werner Herzog and Akira Kurosawa, along with one of the most quintessential New York ...

1951: Rashomon, about four conflicting accounts of a crime, wins the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion and the Oscar for best foreign film in the U.S. A fiery-eyed samurai pinned to a wall by an ...

In 1985, one of cinema's most legendary directors released a sweeping epic that would resonate around the world. "I had the idea of writing something about the sixteenth-century Japanese warlord Mori ...