Best Samurai movies of 2000s

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Ikki Sawamura,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Actors : Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, Billy Connolly, William Atherton,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.

Actors : Ren Ôsugi, Nenji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

A 19th-century samurai tries to protect a battered wife.

Actors : Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Justin Chambers, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Alexander Dumas' novel is updated with an eastern influence as D'Artagnan attempts to join the king's elite guards, the Royal Musketeers, and find the man who killed his parents.

Actors : Hidetaka Yoshioka, Takako Matsu, Masatoshi Nagase, Yukiyoshi Ozawa,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo and Samon as he leaves their clan's fiefdom on the northwest coast of Japan ...

Actors : Nagiko Tôno, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masatoshi Nagase, Misa Shimizu,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

19th century. Oshin is a prostitute in a brothel of a red-light district. A disgraced samurai, Fusanosuke, rushes in the brothel seeking for a refuge, because he had wounded a powerful ...

Actors : Châu Belle Dinh, Williams Belle, Malik Diouf, Yann Hnautra,

Gravity or Police, these guys don't believe in any law. Idolised by the youth of Paris as much as they're hated by the police, they are the Yamakasis, modern samurais. With acrobatic ...

Actors : Takehiro Murata, Kôichi Satô, Kiichi Nakai, Yui Natsukawa,
Directors : Yôjirô Takita,

A samurai goes to extraordinary lengths to provide for his family.

Actors : Kazuya Nakayama, Kaori Momoi, Ryôsuke Miki, Ryûhei Matsuda,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

An executed samurai takes an existential journey throughout time, space and eternity in search of bloody vengeance.

Actors : Takuya Kimura, Rei Dan, Mitsugorô Bandô, Takashi Sasano,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

Actors : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Ko Shibasaki, Yoshio Harada, Kiichi Nakai,
Directors : Akihiko Shiota,

A female warrior who was raised as a man joins a young samurai's quest to recover 48 of his body parts from 48 demons and to avenge her parents death.

Actors : Takao Ohsawa, Masaya Katô, Kanae Uotani, Tak Sakaguchi,
Directors : Ryûhei Kitamura,

A raging god of battle and a master samurai duke it out in a series of sword fights in a remote temple.

Actors : Kumiko Asô, Takaaki Enoki, Leona Hirota, Teisui Ichiryûsai,
Directors : Hideo Nakata,

Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river ...

Actors : Kippei Shîna, Masami Nagasawa, Daisuke Miyagawa, Jun Matsumoto,
Directors : Shinji Higuchi,

A princess, along with a general and two commoners evade pursuit of an enemy and his samurai cohorts. The princess and general are caught but are rescued and then destroy the enemy's fort. Set in the warring period of Japan.

Actors : Kurando Mitsutake, Jeffrey James Lippold, Megan Hallin, Domiziano Arcangeli,
Directors : Kurando Mitsutake,

Blind Swordsman vs. Seven Assassins. A classic tale of revenge.

Actors : Nassar, Jayaseel, Vadivukkarasi, Vikram,
Directors : Balaji Sakthivel,

Thiagu is a school teacher by day and a 'Samurai' by night. He and his gang abduct corrupt politicians and bureaucrats who go free because of the loopholes in the legal system. Ofcourse ...

Actors : Yûko Asano, Kôji Yakusho, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Ryûdô Uzaki,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

New magistrate cleans up a corrupt town in his own comic Samurai way.

Actors : Ryûji Harada, Tatsuo Higashida, Masara Ibu, Nozomi Andô,
Directors : Tomo'o Haraguchi,

A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.

Actors : Minami Tsukui, Shigeru Kanai, Nao Nagasawa, Taka Ôkubo,
Directors : Gô Ohara,

This story is set during the Edo ages in Japan. On a rainy night, Kotono confronts the samurais who have killed her father. The samurai attack her one by one, but she manages to withstand ...

Actors : Ryûji Harada, Masakatsu Funaki, Miki Tanaka, Aimi Nakajima,

A werewolf samurai battles with an evil killer samurai who has slaughtered many innocent people.