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 ...

NEW YORK — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To ...

The 1950s was a decade that some view as being part of a golden age of Japanese cinema, and there were enough films released in the 1960s (especially the first half) to suggest that this golden age ...