Meanwhile, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) in turn directly inspired the classic Hollywood western, The Magnificent Seven (1960).

The western and the samurai film are not as popular as they once were, especially in the 1960s and 70s. But their characteristics are still hugely influential, as Tornado demonstrates.

Tornado is many things: a British period drama, a western, a samurai film, a coming-of-age story and an origin story. Set in the windswept moorland of Britain in 1790, the film offers a lawless ...

The real samurai were salaried warriors, who swore loyalty to a local lord in Japan’s medieval era, in return for money, food and shelter. They typically use a long sword (katana) and two shorter ...

Award-winning director John Maclean reveals the reality of working on a 'notoriously difficult' second feature.

“I am Tornado,” the young woman will later explain. As played by Japanese singer-songwriter Kōki, she is the daughter of a samurai, here in the wilds of Georgian Britain.

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In Samurai Warriors 5, there’s definitely more of a one-on-one feel to these encounters, especially as you dial up the difficulty. A lock-on, block, and evade gives the reboot more of an action ...

Just like how the samurai and western genres created a perpetual cycle of influence, John Maclean's research into samurai movies inevitably led him to westerns, which led him back to samurai films ...

FUKUSHIMA, Japan >> In a spectacle that seemed straight from a picture scroll of Japan’s Warring States period, the three-day Soma Nomaoi festival held its main event May 25 in Minami-­Soma ...

he Scottish director John Maclean’s austere second feature film opens halfway through the story, with its heroine, Tornado (played by the Japanese singer Kōki), trying to save herself from a group of ...