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

If the golden age of the samurai film was the 1950s and 60s – and the likes of Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Harakiri suggest fairly incontrovertibly that it was – then 11 Rebels is a welcome blast from ...

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, ...

Jeremy has more than 2300 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

“Bushido” is Japanese for “the way of the warrior,” a moral code and guiding principle in samurai culture. It is also the title of Kazuya Shiraishi’s new film in which history, philosophy, and ...

Last Samurai Standing is set during the late 19th century, where the era of samurai was coming to an end following the introduction and adoption of firearms to Japan. Shujiro is one of 292 warriors, ...

I hate to hurt anyone’s feelings with negative comments about their work, really I do, so when I see a middle-brow crapfest like the execrable The Last Samurai, I always try to sugarcoat my review ...