There were five Akira Kurosawa movies released during the 1960s, including classics like Yojimbo and High and Low, but which one stands as the best?

Western-samurai influences One of the most influential Japanese films to have samurai in the title is clearly a touchstone for Tornado. Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) has produced many remakes, ...

Akira Kurosawa remakes are hard to come by, good ones even rarer, but after Highest 2 Lowest's huge success, check out these ...

Entertainment 'Seven Samurai' at 70: Kurosawa's epic still moves like nothing else This image released by Janus Films shows Toshirô Mifune in a scene from the 1954 film "Seven Samurai." Credit: AP ...

The Samurai Trilogy, directed by Yoji Yamada, consists of three films set in feudal Japan and depicts the lives of samurai warriors facing personal and societal challenges. It includes The ...

Part of the Japanese Cinema 1960s series co-presented with the Japan Foundation Dir. Hideo Gosha. 1964. 95 min. 35mm. B&W. In Japanese with English subtitles. Based on a popular television series of ...

This summer, timed to the 1954 film’s 70th anniversary, a new restoration of “Seven Samurai” is playing in theaters beginning Wednesday in New York and expanding around the country July 12.

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...