Frequently in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Samurai and the Prisoner,” characters insist that the film’s principal setting, a military compound known as Arioka Castle, is impenetrable. It’s certainly ...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs a satisfying period piece about the tense collaboration between a lord and a cunning envoy. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the Japanese director known as “the master of horror,” was a bit nervous about how viewers might react to his first samurai film. He needn’t have worried. “The Samurai ...

A team of soldiers based in Alaska won top honors over the weekend as Best Squad in the U.S. Army Pacific Competition at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. The soldiers from the 11th Airborne ...

Hip-hop royalty came together over the weekend as Fat Joe and Terror Squad officially dropped their latest single, “The Aroma,” featuring a powerhouse lineup ...

Barcelona's eight 2026 World Cup-winning Spain players Soccrates Images via Getty Images This World Cup win heralds a new golden era for Spanish football — one that follows a similar pattern to what ...

President Donald Trump is escalating his war of words against Senate Majority Leader John Thune. He’s still not likely to get what he wants. But if Trump’s rhetoric is meant to drive Republican voters ...

A 50-year-old Mancelona Township man was stabbed with a Samurai-style sword during an argument on Green Street in Mancelona Township on Sunday, Jul. 19. Deputies arrested 53-year-old David Sivak, also ...

WASHINGTON — What’s in a name? “Squad” Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) mixed up two Jewish Democrats named “Josh” Tuesday while attempting to dunk on Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) after he warned about the rise ...

The SV is the Revuelto everyone is holding out for, but Lamborghini has a consolation prize for one market in the meantime. Japan is getting the Revuelto Impavido, a limited-edition version of the ...

AI progress has returned to predictable, substantial leaps. The key isn’t just making models bigger. It’s mastering data quality, building synthetic data factories, and creating fast verification ...