Ikiru” is a study of what decency costs when practiced without spectacle, without structural support, and without any promise ...

When people think of Akira Kurosawa, they usually think of his samurai films, but his masterpiece is this crime thriller that most people forget.

It’s been close to three decades since Akira Kurosawa’s death, and the Asian filmmaker’s legacy lives on. Kurosawa was the first Japanese director to win international acclaim, with his films being ...

1951: Rashomon, about four conflicting accounts of a crime, wins the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion and the Oscar for best foreign film in the U.S. A fiery-eyed samurai pinned to a wall by an ...

HBO Max has enough great movies of just about every genre on its platform to satisfy any kind of mood. The streamer boasts a particularly impressive lineup of psychological thrillers, though, ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...