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Criterion revisits one of its earliest DVD releases with a significant Blu-ray upgrade.
Classic trilogy about the Japanese folk hero Musashi Miyamoto.
Powerful Samurai film debut of the Japanese filmmaker Hideo Gosha.
As aesthetically bracing as it is politically bold.
A look at several recent releases with lots of testosterone at hand.
Le Samouraï is a wonderfully crafted film and an important piece of cinematic history.
Really good hack-and-slash gameplay as far as the genre goes, but should the genre go further?
The blue sky hangs above red ground in Samurai Champloo.
When are cinematic eviscerations and dubbing good things? When they’re done grindhouse style, of course!
A pepper scarfing samurai takes on the bad guys in this lighthearted manga.