Having mainly worked on samurai, action, and crime films ... Stray Dog follows Tokyo police detective Murakami (Mifune), a rookie who loses his Colt while commuting. He reports the loss to ...

“After the Quake,” a film adaptation of a Murakami Haruki story collection ... through Toho; and samurai epic “Bushido,” which is directed by Shiraishi Kazuya and stars Kusanagi Tsuyoshi.

The man who led these samurai of the sea was the great pirate lord Takeyoshi Murakami. And now Kaede Murakami, a descendant of Takeyoshi, is an elementary schooler living on an island. On her 12th ...

When pirates operated in Japan's Seto Inland Sea around 500 years ago, the largest group, the Murakami Kaizoku, certainly did not fit the conventional image of pirates. They actually protected ...

It's this sensibility, which Ōhi calls the "samurai spirit", that allows Kanazawa ... lots of resources [including] weapons," says Jun Murakami, assistant director of the Kanazawa Utatsuyama ...

In the bottom of the ninth, down 5–4, Samurai Japan managed to get runners on first and second with no outs. Up to bat was Murakami, a powerhouse during the previous season in Japan but facing a ...

The best example is five-time All-Star pitcher Yu Darvish pitching against Munetaka Murakami with Samurai Japan. Murakami is one of the most exciting prospects in baseball, with his offensive ...

By J. Hoberman Few movies have been more influential than “Seven Samurai,” an existential action film directed by Akira Kurosawa that, at longer than three hours, seemingly muscled its way ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A Reddit user’s Sunday post comparing lines in the 2019 indie game YIIK: A Postmodern RPG to passages from novelist Haruki Murakami has led to ...

It seems unfair to call a best-seller a failure. (In Murakami's native Japan the first volume, published in 2009, sold out its first printing and the subsequent two volumes reached, at peak ...

But as Samurai Japan knew early on ... and we never gave up until the very end.” Munetaka Murakami, who had struggled in the tournament before hitting a game-winning double against Mexico ...