Best Samurai movies

Actors : Kenjirô Ishiyama, Saburô Date, Reiko Kasahara, Teruo Ishiyama,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

A blind masseur sleeps with the wife of a samurai, who catches them in the act and kills them. The murdered couple return as vengeful ghosts. This film is a remake of a 1957 film. It was the final picture made by Daiei Studios.

Actors : Mieko Harada, Kôji Yakusho, Jun'ichi Okada, 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 : Yutaka Takeuchi, Adam LaVorgna, Okiko Saito, Kaho Minami,
Directors : Craig Shimahara,

Kane Madison is an architect working in Los Angeles while his doppelganger-like spirit, an eighteenth century Ronin, wanders a parallel netherworld of masked demons and Japanese swordsmen. ...

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 ...

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

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

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 : 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 : Kyôhei Shibata, Takaaki Enoki, Tôru Nakamura, Yôko Minamino,
Directors : Shin'ichirô Sawai,

Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is one way more ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Hitomi Shimizu, Tomorô Taguchi, Hiroyuki Watanabe, 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 : Mitsuko Baishô, Rentarô Mikuni, Yûzô Kayama, Shôgo Shimada,
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.