Best Samurai movies

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 : 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 : 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 : Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.

Actors : Ben Hiura, Kento Yamazaki, Yôsuke Saitô, Tak Sakaguchi,
Directors : Yûji Shimomura,

This film, taken around the time of "Out and Deluxe," consists of the most famous battle of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. In this 77-minute, one-scene, no-cut action sequence, Miyamoto (...

Actors : Rokkô Toura, Kei Satô, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa,
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 : Kazuya Nakayama, Ryôsuke Miki, Kaori Momoi, Ryûhei Matsuda,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

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

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

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

Actors : Yoshiko Miyazaki, Fumi Dan, Akira Terao, Shirô Mifune,
Directors : Takashi Koizumi,

During a downpour, a generous ronin and his supporting wife are stranded at a country inn. The ronin comes to the attention of a lord who wants to hire him as an instructor for his men, who treat the ronin with disrespect.

Actors : Michi Azuma, Akihiro Tomikawa, Yoichi Hayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Buichi Saitô,

Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge.

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 : Seizô Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Gôda, Hirotarô Honda,
Directors : Ken Ochiai,

The film centers an aged movie extra who specializes to be killed in samurai movies without ever being lit by the limelight. Using Charlie Chaplin's film Limelight as an underlying theme, ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Takao Ohsawa, Masaya Katô, Tak Sakaguchi, Kanae Uotani,
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 : Angus Macfadyen, Jessica Szohr, Wes Bentley, Laura Ramsey,
Directors : Alejo Mo-Sun,

A reluctant samurai with a dark past sets off on a mission to fulfill his destiny.

Actors : Mark Dacascos, David Bradley, Valarie Trapp, Rex Ryon,
Directors : Sam Firstenberg,

An American reporter teams up with a martial arts expert, whose half-brother is a "yakuza"--Japanese mafia--drug dealer to battle swordsmen from around the world n a Turkish arena.

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

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