Epic isn’t about size alone. These films prove scale must be earned through story, consequence, and commitment that holds up ...

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 ...

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Three recently restored Samurai armours from Malta’s National Collection are being exhibited together for the first time in Japan at the iconic Himeji Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The armours ...

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“Lone Samurai,” a Japanese-language movie written and directed by California-raised filmmaker Josh C. Waller, begins with on-screen text and a Japanese voice-over reading about the 13th-century ...

LOS ANGELES – Actor Junichi Okada has a very particular set of skills. Although best known in Japan as a movie star, the 45-year-old is also a martial arts whizz with a black belt in Brazilian ...