The first (and only) season of FX's Shōgun came to a close this week, with Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) unifying control of Japan, though at a steep cost. Toranaga is closely based on Tokugawa ...

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...

In the new Spike Lee film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Denzel Washington stars as music mogul David King. He lives at the top of the world — which, of course, is a New York City zip code — in a glittering ...

As Julia Izumi jokes early on in Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live and Active Cultures), there can be something a little awkward about a playwright appearing in their own ...

Originally published in The Los Angeles Times in 1991, here is a scintillating conversation between two late, great masters. Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died in April of this year, ...

The 92nd Academy Awards awarded “Parasite” the best picture Oscar, the first ever for a foreign-language film. Since then, international cinema has experienced a marked increase in prominence in the ...

Don't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I don't think it's a stretch to say that most ...

1951: Rashomon, about four conflicting accounts of a crime, wins the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion and the Oscar for best foreign film in the U.S. A fiery-eyed samurai pinned to a wall by an ...