Akira Kurosawa's legacy is getting the 4K treatment with a massive U.S. festival. Film Forum in New York City will be hosting a special retrospective to honor the late auteur, including the U.S.

Munetaka Murakami picked an ideal time to break out of his World Baseball Classic funk. ... Samurai Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama said, “I felt like, ‘Baseball, ...

Takaharu Nakai, Fumiyuki Murakami, Kazuhiro Kokubo, Yuta Kiyohara, Masaomi Harada, Daisuke Murakami and Shuhei Sato are the infamous Japanese crew known in shred circles as the Seven Samurai.

Louis Vuitton x Murakami Re-Edition Stands the Test of Time: Hypebeast caught up with Takashi Murakami in an exclusive conversation to reflect on the historical collaboration and how it remains ...

Every baseball fan should know the name Roki Sasaki. He's the 21-year-old sensation from Japan who's already the most electric pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball. He's a once-in-a-generation ...

That Samurai Japan team’s biggest star, Ohtani, is the most popular player in the world, ... Murakami’s two years, spanning 54 appearances, ...

It was 2:46 p.m. on a Friday when the walls around Tomoyuki Murakami started to shake. He scrambled for cover inside the city hall in Rikuzentakata, a fishing village along Japan’s mountainous ...

A combination of mystery and plainspokenness has made Haruki Murakami's novels both successful and acclaimed. In his latest, writes Randy Boyagoda, an air of self-satisfaction throws off the balance.

On March 20, 1995, members of a religious cult released toxic gas in three Tokyo subways, killing thirteen people. Some months later, the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami happened to be reading ...