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"Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan" Review: Age of Samurai serves as a veritable primer on the most turbulent period in Japanese history

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan S amurai cinema, also called “chanbara” or “chambara”, is the Japanese equivalent of the ...

Watch 'Throne of Blood' Video Review

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T hrone of Blood is a 1957 Japanese historical drama film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The...

Rashomon (1950): Akira Kurosawa's treatise on the subjectivity of truth that introduced Japanese cinema to the world

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan R ashomon (1950), a Japanese film directed by master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, introduced...

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Murtaza Ali Khan is an independent film critic / journalist based out of New Delhi, India. He has been writing on cinema for over 10 years. He runs the award-winning entertainment blog A Potpourri of Vestiges. He regularly contributes to The Hindu and The Sunday Guardian. He was previously a columnist at Huff Post. He has also contributed to publications like DailyO, Newslaundry, The Quint, Dear Cinema, Desimartini and Jamuura Blog. He regularly appears as a guest panelist on the various television channels and is also associated with radio.

His education spans science, technology, mass communication, and management. But cinema remains his first love. His all-time favorite movie-makers are Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Luis Bunuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray, Fritz Lang, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. He can be reached at murtaza@apotpourriofvestiges.com / murtaza.jmi@gmail.com. He tweets at @MurtazaCritic.

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