NEW YORK — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To ...

Seven Samurai can be considered the best action movie of time because of its stakes, characters, and the way it feels epic and intimate all at once.

The 1950s was a decade that some view as being part of a golden age of Japanese cinema, and there were enough films released in the 1960s (especially the first half) to suggest that this golden age ...