Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, musician Yoshiki and contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara were named on Time magazine's annual ...

Japanese cinema has many incredible action movies that deserve more attention, from Dead or Alive to the incredibly named A ...

The 1975 film pitted superstars Ken Takakura and Sonny Chiba against one another in a breathless race against time that inspired the Keanu Reeves blockbuster Speed. Combining state-of-the-art ...

For one thing, this sleek Netflix spectacle is actually a remake of the 1975 Ken Takakura/Sonny Chiba vehicle that inspired “Speed,” even though “The Bullet Train” was itself a response to American ...

In 1975 “The Bullet Train,” a Japanese thriller directed by Junya Sato and co-starring the legendary Sonny Chiba, debuted. It featured a bullet train that was rigged with explosives ...