Japan’s horror master switches genre for new film now arriving in theaters - Tackling a samurai movie presented Kurosawa with ...

A rich goldmine of cinematic terror, Japanese horror has long been celebrated for contributing some of the most effective and traumatizing films that the world has ever seen. There is no doubt that ...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the Japanese director known as “the master of horror,” was a bit nervous about how viewers might react to ...

Dark Water is an absolute Japanese horror classic, not to mention one of the most underrated horror films of this century, ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Thought lost for nearly forty-five years, this silent horror film was the product of avant-garde Japanese artists known as Shinkankakuha. Eschewing more naturalistic representation, the film uses ...

Japan horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa debuts his first samurai film The Samurai and the Prisoner in US cinemas, opening in New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marilyn Burns in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images) The firsthand account of Japanese audiences ...

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to "Never After Dark." The Japanese horror movie, written and directed by Dave Boyle and from XYZ Films, premiered at SXSW and went on to win the ...

XYZ Films has acquired worldwide sales rights outside of Japan for “Never After Dark,” a supernatural horror feature that recently wrapped production under Tokyo-based production company Signal181.