Director John Maclean’s Tornado is a future cult classic that unexpectedly merges the Western and samurai movie genres with ...

Via is a cinephile and a bookworm who loves fantasy and cozy gaming as well as talking about pop culture both online and offline. Filmmakers all over the world have been inspired by Japanese movies ...

In an X (formerly Twitter) post, which Kojima has since deleted, the Death Stranding creator heaped immense praise on Netflix’s Last Samurai Standing series, going as far as to say that it made his ...

Art travels, inspires, and transforms, and the relationship between Western and samurai films is a testament to this. Emerging from opposite ends of the globe, the two seemingly distinct genres, ...

You've been involved with several different genres. A samurai epic is certainly one of those things that I feel is a bit trickier to master. What are your biggest influences as far as filmmakers or ...