samurai

It would­n’t sur­prise us to come across a Japan­ese per­son in Venice. Indeed, giv­en the glob­al touris­tic appeal of the place, we could hard­ly imag­ine a day there with­out a …

Browse the ever-vaster selec­tion of self-help books, videos, pod­casts, and social-media accounts on offer today, and you’ll find no short­age of pre­scrip­tions for how to live. Much of what the …

In Japanese, “Ran” means “chaos”. A masterpiece of director Akira Kurosawa’s later career, sweeping samurai epic Ran is a staggering fusion of colour, motion and sound. In 16th-century Japan, an …