“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.

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 ...

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 ...

Revered Japanese contemporary artists Takashi Murakami and Hideo Kojima both recently praised Sanada’s work on Shōgun. “It’s so hard to make a samurai drama in Japan now,” Sanada reveals.

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 ...

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 ...

Samurai Japan named its roster for four warmup ... Tokyo Yakult Swallows third baseman Munetaka Murakami and Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Roki Sasaki headline the 28-man roster Kuriyama named ...

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 ...

With runners on first and second and no outs, all Murakami had to do was punch one ... So good it’s almost enough to have us pulling for the Samurai in Tuesday night’s final against the ...

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 ...