NO ONE IN Japan has been idealized like Musashi Miyamoto. The 17th century swordsman, painter and poet has been the subject of some 100 movies and countless novels and television programs – William ...

In 1954, Japan’s Toho studio made three films that achieved enduring international success. The first was Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai,” which shows up within the top 10 of nearly every ...

The first installment in Hiroshi Inagaki’s epic and magisterial Samurai Trilogy, Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, which will be screened this Sunday at the McNay Art Museum, follows a young bandit and his ...

One expects nothing less than masterpieces from the Criterion Collection, as they are home to some of the great masters of cinema. Recently they’ve put out Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, Ingmar ...

The intrepid folks at Criterion have put out a fine pair of three-disc sets, each one celebrating a little-known but gifted foreign-language director who has a very particular place in film history.

True trilogies are becoming something of a rarity in Hollywood. What was once considered the classic template for a film series to follow to tell a complete story has since faded, thanks to the ...

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band of New Orleans plays Tuesday and Wednesday at Blue Note Hawaii, hops over to the Kauai Beach Resort on Thursday, then flies to Hawaii island for a performance at the Kahilu ...