The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a ...

The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a ...

This week we honor the arrival of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill with nods to the latest slice ’em, dice ’em fare to hit the DVD shelves, just in case you – like a certain martial-arts neophyte I know ...

The Japanese movie star Toshiro Mifune would have turned 102 this year. Mifune, whose greatest prominence came with his performances in 16 films by legendary director Akira Kurosawa, was born in 1920 ...

Miramax thinks you don’t know who Zatoichi is. That’s why the distributor, long notorious for its tinkering, altered the name of Japanese multimedia auteur Takeshi Kitano’s latest film to The Blind ...

Casa Film Bar is showcasing classic samurai cinema every Thursday through the month of August, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This Thursday, expect the works of director Kihachi Okamoto with four films slated ...

Masterful use of shifting tones and a delight in classic genre devices mark "Vengeance for Sale," a samurai sendup which almost makes the final cut, but ultimately proves a little too inside for its ...

In this Japanese samurai film, blind swordsman Zatoichi has to battle Yojimbo. At the beginning of the film, Zatoichi is planning on retiring, yet his village is besieged by outlaws; eventually, he ...