"One of the most exquisite spectacles ever made." Rialto Pictures has unveiled a new trailer for the 40th anniversary ...

The film is inspired Shakespear's King Lear as well as the life of the 16th-century feudal ruler Mori Motonari ...

Kurosawa poured a huge amount of himself into the film and it became a massive technical accomplishment. In Japanese, Ran is translated to Chaos and this film can certainly be described as that.

Dubbed "the greatest war movie ever made" by Vulture in their latest rankings, the 1985 masterpiece took years to craft. The ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

The Force was with many Japanese, as well as visitors from abroad, at a “Star Wars” event on Friday where Lucasfilm announced ...

It marked the second Japanese film to win the ... filmmaker Akira Kurosawa became the second Japanese director nominated for this category 36 years ago with “Ran.” No Japanese director has ...