Samurai stories, an essential genre of Japan's film industry since its inception ... of filmmaking - the post-War period of the 1950s and 1960s, when a remarkable number of masterpieces were ...

In addition to being remade in 1960 for American audiences, Seven Samurai also served as the basis for 2016's Magnificent ...

If the golden age of the samurai film was the 1950s and 60s – and the likes of Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Harakiri suggest fairly incontrovertibly that it was – then 11 Rebels is a welcome ...

The film’s influence, particularly its thematic focus in the first half of “assembling the team,” can be felt across late-20th century and even current cinema–from its direct American remake, 1960’s ...