A Fistful of Dollars may have been the film that turned Clint Eastwood into a star, but it's also a clear copy of the earlier released samurai epic, Yojimbo. Before A Fistful of Dollars, Eastwood had ...

When fans think of the great Akira Kurosawa, they often think of the grand samurai and war epics that came to define his career early on. Movies like Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood and The Hidden ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

Slab Cinema will screen Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo at Legacy Park on Tuesday. Credit: The Criterion Collection As the latest entry in Slab Cinema’s Arthouse Edition, which features microcinema ...

One reason movie lovers the world over hold the filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in such high regard is that he instilled visceral excitement into Japanese cinema as no one had before him. Whether he was more ...

Stan Sakai’s much-admired comic book Usagi Yojimbo is being developed as a feature film. Upstart studio Lintika Films has been chosen to produce the project. They won the rights from Sakai based on ...