Every movie buff knows that westerns influenced samurai movies, which inspired westerns, which influenced the samurai genre to evolve, with the back-and-forth repeating for several more cycles.

East meets west in the rip-roaring samurai western, ‘Red Sun’ Charles Bronson’s gunslinger and Toshiro Mifune’s yojimbo are on the trail of Alain Delon’s treacherous bandit in this ...

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 26 June) is Red Sun, the 1971 cult classic spaghetti Western with an all-star cast.

"Throne of Blood,” Akira Kurosawa’s eloquently stylized 1957 reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” as a 16th century Japanese samurai saga, hovers in the flushed, rosy atmosphere of a ...

That's "Twilight Samurai." It's directed by Yoji Yamada, a 73-year-old man with almost 90 movies to his credit, and is small, domestic, focused, full of kids, obligations, worries about who's ...