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Lord Murashige Araki who, besieged in his castle, confronts mysterious crimes and allies with imprisoned strategist Kanbei Kuroda to uncover the truth.

The legendary Japanese director talks cinephilia, America, and ambiguities.

To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met. It is a grand old...

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme returns to the UK in February, presenting a diverse lineup of Japanese cinema to audiences across the country. This year's selection is based around the theme of 'love' and is titled People Still Call It Love:...

Takashi Miike might get away with remaking a little seen samurai flick like The Thirteen Assassins (1963), but Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri is another story. The 1962 original, a masterpiece in pacing and storytelling, is a well distributed, widely seen and...

The first 3D film ever screened in official selection in Cannes, Takashi Miike's Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai (Ichimei) proved to be divisive among audiences. A remake of Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 picture, the film moved much more slowly than audiences...

The reaction to Takashi Miike's Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai (Ichimei) was decidedly split, with the film skewing far more towards melodrama than many were expecting from a 3D samurai picture coming on the heels of 13 Assassins. The idea...

Japan's Takashi Miike wowed audiences around the world with his outstanding samurai epic 13 Assassins - a film I firmly believe will go down as one of his career best - and he remains in that classic style with upcoming...

Cult director Takashi Miike turned heads around the globe with his handsome samurai drama 13 Assassins, a film for which he put away his trademark gonzo style and focused instead on simply putting together a well crafted, well told story....

And to think that the movies make it seem like a stepping stone on the way to adulthood, particularly movies like this. You know, the idea that, once men get past their adolescent fervor, they no longer think about a...