Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

The samurai maintained their elite status into the mid-1800s, when Western influences began to take hold. In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry and his American fleet sailed into Japanese waters and ...

"Seven Samurai" was initially viewed through the lens of cultural narcissism. New York Times critic Bosley Crowther saw in it "the universal influence of the culture of the American western films." ...

And in the 20th century the mythological version of the Samurai, designed in part for Western consumption, became integral to a newly forged national identity.Nicola Liscutin is Programme Director ...

The Magnificent Seven, the 2016 remake of the 1960 Western classic of the same name (which itself was a remake of Akira ...