The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...

For another, the games reached way out there; Ecco's journeys through the ocean would lead him to communicate with ...

We know them, and their Japan, through countless films and TV shows - from Kurosawa to the recent Shogun - but what’s clear ...

If there is to be a broad-based, democratic resistance, Kurosawa’s film suggests, the “hungry Samurai” who lead it must ...