Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

A beloved long-running movie series from Japan about a vagabond peddler that started in 1969 is now winning the hearts of film lovers in France. The popularity of director Yoji Yamada’s “Otoko wa ...

Outside Shibamata Station, in the north of Tokyo, stands a statue of a shabby traveling salesman with one hand in his pocket and the other holding a battered suitcase. Although he is wearing a jacket ...

With 48 feature installments from 1969 to 1995, the “Tora-san” series not only set a Guinness World Record, but kept its Shochiku production studio afloat for decades. While it was drawing fans as ...

Dressed in costume and ready to celebrate, an expected 3,000 people will take part in the 10th annual Tora-Con March 8–9 at Rochester Institute of Technology. The annual convention gathers fans of ...

PEARL Harbor was a significant battle that took place in Hawaii during World War II. Using code words and phrases during military strikes was a popular tactic that was utilized by the different ...

The first time I went to Tora Bora, in a motley convoy of three dozen or so pickup trucks complete with gun-wielding rent-a-mujaheddin in the back, for whom we journalists were forced to pay $200 a ...