"In Kurosawa’s film, Toshiro Mifune is a shoemaker. In our film Denzel Washington is a music mogul with his own label and his reputation as the best ears in the business. So, this is the fifth film ...

Time magazine, naming Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada among its 100 most influential people in the world. Sanada was one of three Japanese who made the list, the others being musician Yoshiki and ...

He also stole the title from the classic 1960 Japanese film The Last Gunfight which starred Toshiro Mifune. However, in this new movie - in a ruthless underground tournament, the world's top ...

It’s not quite a spoiler to say that what comes next involves Riverdancing vampires and the most outrageous blood sprays since Toshiro Mifune last unsheathed a samurai sword.

The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria and were part of the end to Israel's 1948 war. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun attends a joint press conference ...

SEATTLE — On April 13, 1949, a massive 6.7 magnitude earthquake rattled western Washington. The ground shook for 30 seconds and was felt over a 230,000-square-mile area, with the epicenter near ...

Forget Hollywood, Wyoming had its own real “Hoosiers” Cinderella story in 1949. That’s when the high school basketball team from the tiny coal town of Reliance beat the unbeatable, defending state ...

Also, no one had the charisma even in the midst of a brawl like Toshiro Mifune. While William Wyler won best director, the chariot sequence was actually co-directed by Andrew Marton and Yakima ...

He was the martial arts coordinator on Toshiro Mifune’s 1982 feature The Challenge, though, so there’s a tangential connection at the very least. “Red Beard is one of the most important movies in my ...

Over the years, the Taiga dramas have featured some of Japan’s most celebrated actors, including Ken Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sanada and Toshiro Mifune. We plan to air a documentary series ...

“In Kurosawa’s film, Toshiro Mifune is a shoemaker,” said Lee. “In our film, Denzel Washington is a music mogul with his own label and his reputation as the best ears in the busines ...

A long-lost gift from France to New Jersey in 1949, once thought to be destroyed, is returning home in April. New Jersey's Merci Train boxcar is one of 49 gifted as a gesture of gratitude for ...