Perhaps no world cinema industry in the last few decades has had an effect on Hollywood cinema quite like the imports of Japanese cinema. Since the industry’s golden age in the postwar 1950s, Japanese ...

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 ...

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 ...