The Daimajin trilogy has been something of an oddity since its creation; the new Arrow Video Blu-ray release is the first official release in the UK and one of only three ever home releases in the US.

Yoji Yamada’s “Love and Honor” — completing the samurai trilogy that began with the Oscar-nominated “The Twilight Samurai” (2002) and “The Hidden Blade” (2004) — may disappoint anyone looking for fast ...

Throughout the 20th century, and even to this day, Japanese cinema has become one of the greatest foreign influences on Western film and television. The impact of chanbara, or Samurai cinema, is ...

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 ...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile ...

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The Daimajin trilogy has been something of an oddity since its creation; the new Arrow Video Blu-ray release is the first official release in the UK and one of only three ever home releases in the US.