Best Samurai movies of 1960s

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Eijirô Tôno, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Actors : Jûkichi Uno, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Naitô, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Gô Katô, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.

Actors : Rokkô Toura, Kei Satô, Nobuko Otowa, Kichiemon Nakamura,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Actors : Miyuki Kuwano, Isamu Nagato, Mikijirô Hira, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

When poor peasants kidnap a magistrate's daughter to coerce him into reducing taxes, a wandering ronin and two renegades from the magistrate's guard take up the fight for them.

Actors : Toshie Kimura, Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Mikijirô Hira,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

After killing a counselor of his clan, a fugitive samurai befriends a couple poaching the shogun's gold in the mountains.

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Chûsha Ichikawa, Akira Takarada, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurô Tanba, Ruriko Asaoka, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Actors : Minoru Hodaka, Jun Hamamura, Osamu Hitomi, Hiroshi Aoyama,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

The legendary samurai Sasuke Sarutobi gets caught in a web of political intrigue, deception and espionage during the early 17th century.

Actors : Reiko Ôhara, Shintarô Katsu, Pîtâ, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Zatoichi meets an infamous blind leader of a gangster organization as he contends with a gloomy ronin widower.

Actors : Kaneko Iwasaki, Shintarô Katsu, Mikio Narita, Chizu Hayashi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

A samurai with a high skill in chess makes friends with Zatoichi, who finds that things become peculiar in his presence.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûjirô Ishihara, Shintarô Katsu, Yukio Mishima,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.

Actors : Isao Kimura, Eiji Okada, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Actors : Yûjirô Ishihara, Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu, Ruriko Asaoka,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set ...

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Kôtarô Satomi, Chiezô Kataoka, Takayuki Akutagawa,
Directors : Eiichi Kudô,

A group of samurai plan to assassinate a sadistic feudal lord.

Actors : Yûjirô Ishihara, Yoshiko Sakuma, Toshirô Mifune, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces ...

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Junko Miyazono, Isao Natsuyagi, Tatsuo Endô,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A charismatic ronin gets snared into a conflict between officials at a waystation, and gains the enmity of a group of thugs.