Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (“Wife of a Spy”) very first period film and most ambitious feature to date, “Kokurojo: ...

Period films excite me because there is something strangely comforting about watching people from another century fall in love, make mistakes, and fight for something that matters to them. It's like ...

Historical films can be many things—fiction or nonfiction, literary adaptations or original concepts. Perhaps the most rewarding type of historical film is the period piece, which not only takes place ...