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 ...

Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto ...

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 ...