He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira Kurosawa and other leading directors of that era.

In a 2005 interview, the actor said that in his twenties, he was carrying the load of "everyone's masterpieces." He worked ...

Dame Helen Mirren has said it is “so unbelievably exciting” to see the Royal Shakespeare Company launch a curriculum aimed at ...

Dame Helen Mirren has expressed her profound excitement over a new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) curriculum, designed to ...

Mr. Nakadai, an actor rivaled only by Toshiro Mifune as the best-known star of 20th-century Japanese cinema, died Nov. 8.

Tatsuya Nakadai, a Japanese film legend known for his work in "The Human Condition" trilogy, "Harakiri" and other iconic ...

The Dresser is a 1983 historical drama directed by journeyman filmmaker Peter Yates (who was behind movies from a wide ...

If you're after heavy and soul-crushing movies, it might be worth checking out classics like Come and See, Paths of Glory, ...

In a poem prefacing the 1623 First Folio, playwright Ben Jonson describes Shakespeare as “not of an age, but for all time”.

Before Hogwarts, these young actors were mostly unknown faces stepping into a world of magic. After it, they became icons, ...