HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI "I have a bad feeling about this." BEING UNEMPLOYED SUCKS. You’re poor, you’re hungry, and you hate yourself. It’s enough to drive one to suicide. Or at least the threat ...

A formally elegant, dramatically faithful retelling of Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 black-and-white classic "Harakiri," this slow-burning tragedy will disappoint auds expecting a nonstop slash-'em-up from ...

Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai talks to the media during movie "Kagemusha" press conference at Broadway Cinematheque MOMA on June 7, 2011 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Visual China Group via Getty ...

Some of the best martial arts movie climaxes of all time can be found in classics like Police Story, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, and ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan’s most celebrated stage and screen actors who was a frequent collaborator of director Masaki Kobayashi and led Akira Kurosawa titles such as “Ran,” “Kagemusha” and “High ...

Takashi Miike is probably best known for his most controversial work - specifically 1999's Audition and the 2001 live action adaptation of manga Ichi the Killer. But he's apparently a very prolific ...