Art travels, inspires, and transforms, and the relationship between Western and samurai films is a testament to this.

Cowboys, outlaws, deserts, shanty towns, and gunslinging—these are the quintessential elements of the Western genre in both ...

But that wasn't the case in Italy. The neorealist films of directors Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica, and others helped the nation craft a fresh cultural identity amid a difficult recovery from ...