Best Samurai movies

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 : 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 : Jing Chen, Yamson Domingo, Jacky Cheung, Adam Cheng,

Legendary actor, stuntman, fight choreographer and pioneer of Hong Kong's New Wave Movement, Sammo Hung directs (and appears in) a rousing retelling of Akira Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI. The ...

Actors : Jun Fujimaki, Eiko Taki, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

A wandering yakuza in search for the man responsible for slicing up his father and an amateur samurai searching for the whereabouts of his own father are thrown together on the outskirts of a mob infested seaside village.

Actors : Hitomi Shimizu, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Tomorô Taguchi, Yûko Moriyama,
Directors : Kazumasa Shirai,

An evil sorcerer summons seven legendary Samurai warriors to aid him in his conquest of the world. One valiant warrior stands against them.

Actors : Luis Durán, Oscar Gómez, Claudia Goytia, Magdalena Alarcón,
Directors : Christian González,

A film student, Samurai, decides to make a documentary on Casandra's, a table dancer, work and family life. The nearness of both makes her fall in love to the filmmaker. He prefers to leave...

Actors : Ken Goodlet, Judith Roberts, Kevin Cooney, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Jun'ya Satô,

Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making him aim to get revenge. Marvin an experienced gunman befriends Ken and becomes his mentor.

Actors : Dencio Padilla, Roberto Gonzalez, Joaquin Fajardo, Johnny Monteiro,
Directors : Leody M. Diaz,

Get out of its way, nothing could stop the Magic Samurai, no outlaw could ever escape its justice / see the most action-packed film of the year.

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Rentarô Mikuni, Shôgo Shimada, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kengo Furusawa,

1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.

Actors : Mieko Harada, Jun'ichi Okada, Kôji Yakusho, Maki Horikita,
Directors : Takashi Koizumi,

A content samurai is given ten years to comprehensively chronicle his clan before he commits harakiri, or ritual disembowelment, for being caught in a tryst with one of the concubines of ...

Actors : Gorô Ibuki, Bin Amatsu, Takashi Ebata, Keiko Aikawa,
Directors : Takashi Harada,

A ronin desperado who turns into a criminal is condemned to death sentence. However, he is saved by the notorious Bohachi clan who contemplate to use his sword skills against their rivals. ...

Actors : Sentarô Fushimi, Yoshiko Fujishiro, Yumiko Mihara, Jûshirô Konoe,
Directors : Tai Katô,

Tamiya, an egomaniacal samurai, determines to reunite with his wife Oiwa, who's left him after a murder scandal. When her sister Osode is tricked into prostitution by a masseuse, Tamiya is ...

Actors : Harvey Chao, Jacqueline Humbert, Frances Leeming,
Directors : George Manupelli,

A 400 year old samurai encounters a modern feminist couple in the woods

Actors : Eiji Okada, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Shingo Yamashiro, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed samurai with nothing to do, and their morale...

Actors : Chieko Baishô, Isamu Nagato, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Seiichirô Uchikawa,

The adventures of a ronin, a samurai without a feudal lord, trying to achieve safety in a neighbouring domain.

Actors : Toshiaki Karasawa, Koyuki, Teruyuki Kagawa, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi,
Directors : Yukio Ninagawa,

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in solitude while being haunted by his violent enigmatic past. Persuaded by a travelling priest ...

Actors : Saeda Kawaguchi, Nobuo Kaneko, Masumi Harukawa, Yûsuke Kawazu,
Directors : Kazuo Hase,

A Samurai kills a Blind Man who tells him to "Repay his debts." Because of the Samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.

Actors : Eva Reyes, Ronald L. Marchini, Leo Fong, Leila Hermosa,
Directors : Manuel Songco,

During World War II, When the Japanese were fighting in the Philippines, they buried a stash of gold. They decided to abandon the traditional "treasure map", deciding instead to engrave ...

Actors : Yoshiko Miyazaki, Hideki Takahashi, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Eiichi Kudô,

The ronin, Sako Kanbei has to rescue the beautiful Princess Tsubaki from danger while young samurai of the Numata Clan stand up against their corrupt Chief Retainer and evil clan mistress.

Actors : Utaemon Ichikawa, Sentarô Fushimi, Hiroki Matsukata, Jûshirô Konoe,

A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famous spear fighter and warrior, is a vassal of lord Honjo. One of Honjo's most trusted ...