Let’s return to the epic and amazing story that is Shōgun! Blackthorne has found himself in quite the sticky situation and I’m not just talking about his bumping of uglies with Mariko. Things are staring to...
Shōgun returns for a third episode of the massively successful series (I’m assuming, I honestly have no idea what the ratings are) and this episode proves to be a real doozy. The series is really starting...
There are a select number of movies that I watch a few times a year just to remind myself of how awesome they are. 13 Assassins is one of those movies. It has so many of...
To put it very simply, Ran is one of the most gorgeous movies I’ve ever seen. Released in 1985, Ran was one of legendary director Akira Kurosawa’s last films and the final samurai film that he...
The story of a nameless fighter entering a dangerous town and playing two rival gangs off on one another has been told for decades. It’s a story that we can easily trace back to A Fistful...
I have always loved the samurai sub-genre of films. Whether released in 1962 or 2020, there has been a consistent stream of excellent films for the better part of six decades. Certainly, though, the genre never...
I remember a time when young Chad Cruise would wander around the video store for two hours just reading the backs of VHS tapes and trying to figure out what craziness might happen in them based...
There is nothing that says that you can’t be an adorably cute pop singer AND a badass sword fighter capable of killing dozens of armed men at the same time. 2003’s Azumi was one of the...
Who starts a movie by chopping off a toddler’s head? It’s the wild beginning to a film series that will keep you guessing no matter what your background in samurai cinema might be. I have always...
When director Takashi Miike sat down to finish off the last scenes of his 100th film, I wonder if he considered it to be one of the most exciting and entertaining samurai movies of the last...
