Japan Society's latest Monthly Classics film series The Double-Edged Sword: The Chambara Films of Shintaro Katsu & Raizo Ichikawa pays tribute to two Japanese screen legends in their most respected, ...

A houseguest lies silently in a small room, a servant rubbing his tired feet. Another man enters, inviting the first man to show off his swordplay for his hosts, but the prone man demurs. "No," he ...

Old timers like me want to revisit old loves and past guilty pleasures. It so happened that during the long lockdown, as I was rummaging through my old DVDs, I was able to dig out my collection of ...

This article comes from Den of Geek UK. In the 1978 US documentary The Blind Swordsman, Shintaro Katsu is asked how he’d like to present himself to American viewers. “I have zero interest in promoting ...

Shintarō Katsu (勝 新太郎 Katsu Shintarō?), born Toshio Okumura (奥村 利夫 Okumura Toshio, November 29, 1931—June 21, 1997; nicknamed Katsu-shin) was a Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director. He was ...

Like their American counterparts, Japanese movie lovers have long embraced recurring characters and storylines. But their film franchises reached a peak in the 1960s and '70s. At that time, series in ...

From The Mandalorian and Grogu to the tense drama of Passenger and the comedy of I Love Boosters, this week’s new releases have something for everyone. Pedro Pascal surprised Disneyland guests this ...