Best Samurai movies

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 : Kôichi Iwaki, Kiichi Nakai, Ken Takakura, Rie Miyazawa,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

A group of disgraced samurai plan a decade long revenge against a corrupt lord.

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.

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 : Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Ken Ogata, Masao Kusakari,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.

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 : 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 : Riho Sayashi, Taiga Nakano, Takayuki Yamada,
Directors : Kazuya Shiraishi,

Amidst the Boshin War's brutal conflicts, a motley squad of criminals and samurai undertakes a desperate defense of a fortress, their stand triggered by clashing interests of the Shibata clan, the shogunate, and the new government.

Actors : Kaoru Sugita, Renji Ishibashi, Kanako Higuchi, Yoshio Harada,

A group of masterless samurai living in Edo's red light district must fend off a militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.

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 : Masachika Ichimura, Kaya Kiyohara, Kyôko Koizumi,
Directors : Kazuya Shiraishi,

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived in poverty with his daughter Kinu.

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Shin'ichi Chiba, Akane Kawasaki, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

A karate fighter and a samurai join opposing gangs to take them down from the inside.

Actors : Yukie Nakama, Masato Sakai, Kimimaro Ayanokôji, Mina Fujii,
Directors : Yoshimitsu Morita,

A low-income samurai struggling to survive when the philosophy and their reason of existence is being questioned and phased out.

Actors : Teruhiko Saigô, Takahiro Tamura, Ken Ogata, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Toranosuke Sugi, a brave and loyal Samurai, fights to practice and preserve his master's teachings amid a civil war. With friends on both side will he cave to temptation, or stand on principle and for freedom?

Actors : Takahiro Tamura, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yoshiko Mita, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Tadashi Imai,

After killing a high-ranking officer in an illegal duel, a low-ranking samurai is declared insane and challenged to a fixed duel by the vengeful clan to which his dead opponent belonged to.

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

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

Actors : Lloyd Battista, Kanji Ohara, Tony Anthony, Kin Ômae,
Directors : Luigi Vanzi,

An American gunfighter is tasked with delivering a valuable scroll to a man in Japan, and becomes embroiled in a war between two samurai clans.

Actors : Kôichi Satô, Kôji Yakusho, Nanami Sakuraba, Kôji Yamamoto,
Directors : Shigemichi Sugita,

An army of loyal samurai plot to revenge their unjustly executed lord.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, John Fujioka, James Ryan, Arabella Holzbog,
Directors : Paul Mayersberg,

The quest for spiritual fulfilment be a Japanese businessman who comes to Africa following the trail of his samurai ancestor. Despite the title this is not a martial arts film.