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, which takes place in 1586 ... though several noted the key distinctions between it and Kurosawa's 1950 samurai epic, Rashomon. In the decades since, Seven Samurai has been referenced ...

saddling Japan’s so-called Golden Age of filmmaking — the post-War period of the 1950s and 1960s, when a remarkable number of masterpieces were created. To help tide Shogun fans over, The Hollywood ...