In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s historical drama, “The Samurai and the Prisoner,” a series of puzzling crimes at a besieged fortress ...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs a satisfying period piece about the tense collaboration between a lord and a cunning envoy.

If there's a great crime of recent world cinema, it's that Kiyoshi Kurosawa hasn't been granted bigger budgets. The 70-year-old Japanese auteur has consistently spun masterful moviemaking from a ...

Inside a feudal Japanese castle ringed by a warlord's army, a series of impossible killings begins to turn a besieged court against itself — and the cornered lord, unable to find the culprit, seeks ...

"Believe in me! Believe in our castle's strength!" Janus Films has revealed their main official US trailer for the film The Samurai and the Prisoner, the acclaimed Japanese samurai murder mystery film ...

Japan’s horror master switches genre for new film now arriving in theaters - Tackling a samurai movie presented Kurosawa with ...

Samurai movies are some of Japan's best cinematic exports, and there are a ton of classic and modern samurai films available on streaming today. Ripped straight from Japan's extensive history, the ...