While the movie is over 80 years old, The 47 Ronin is a pretty good look at what life was like during Feudal Japan, and how samurai culture functions.

Akira Kurosawa is synonymous with Seven Samurai, but he made many other movies that have become just as important, from Ikiru to Ran.

Few movies have been more influential than “Seven Samurai,” an existential action film directed by Akira Kurosawa that, at longer than three hours, seemingly muscled its way into existence ...