Actress and singer Meiko Kaji's album “Hajiki Uta” has been re-released as a vinyl record in Europe exactly 50 years after its initial release. “I’m so flattered that my album is enjoying a revival ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meiko Kaji in Lady Snowblood (1973), perhaps the most influential of her roles - Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy Less than a week ...

An important, if subtle, difference between Meiko Kaji and Pam Grier as action stars is that, where Kaji is an avenger, Grier is a protector. Her characters are ordinary women with jobs — the title ...

Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill is more than a revenge saga — it’s a love letter to Japanese cinema. From Kurosawa’s samurai epics to Meiko Kaji’s stoic vengeance, these influences shaped the film’s ...

Starting in the 1970s, Meiko Kaji tore through the Japanese film industry, delivering iconic performances that resonate to this day. Few performers commanded the screen with her authority. Kaji played ...

Three of the 1970s Japanese icon's greatest, grungiest films show how the grindhouse rivals the arthouse for sheer filmmaking flair. 1973’s “Lady Snowblood” is probably the most “respectable” of the ...

A still from Netflix’s ‘Yu Yu Hakusho’. Credit: Netflix Yu Yu Hakusho’s development is ground-breaking for Japan’s TV industry, Sakaguchi says, which could not previously handle the VFX of such a ...

Japanese actor Meiko Kaji is an icon of genre cinema. Starring in over 100 films throughout her decades-long career, she was the face of films like Lady Snowblood and Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion.

Mortal Kombat II unleashes brutal new battles, returning champions, and deadly rivals as the iconic fighting franchise returns to theaters this weekend. Tobey Maguire to reprise Spider-Man in Avengers ...

NME speaks to the creators of the anime’s first live-action adaptation, out on Netflix 30 years after its debut Yu Yu Hakusho’s development is ground-breaking for Japan’s TV industry, Sakaguchi says, ...

'70s Week: The '70s saw women kicking ass like never before — two of them cut an especially spectacular trail that bleeds a clear path through the last 50 years of action movies. Women have been ...

Three of the 1970s Japanese icon's greatest, grungiest films show how the grindhouse rivals the arthouse for sheer filmmaking flair. 30 years after Japanese moviegoers first heard “The Flower of ...