Kurosawa Kiyoshi talks his Cannes-premiering jidaigeki 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' on cowardly heroes and the cost of ...

The Tenpō Famine of the 1830s was one of the worst in Japanese history, with the poor weather causing escalating rice prices as a major cause. To better understand how historical weather anomalies ...

Those who do not laugh at history are doomed to repeat it. These history jokes will provide the lessons and LOLs you need.

Of the myriad ways Shakespeare’s Scottish play has been adapted, Akira Kurosawa’s 1956 film Throne of Blood, set in a bleak, ...

A new book defends a Marxist theory of the origins of capitalism. Along the way it shows why understanding the transition ...