Best Samurai movies

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Gorô Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A nihilistic ronin joins the immoral Bohachi clan, which intends to take control over the local prostitution industry.

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

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

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 : 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 : Mai Kitajima, Kimiko Yo, Ken Ogata, Shinobu Ohtake,
Directors : Takashi Ishii,

Thrown together by chance during the robbery of a jewelry store by a Yakuza gang, five women take advantage of the situation to make off with the heist's loot, while a man hunts the same ...

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 : 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 : Charles Lampkin, Hiroshi Fujioka, John Calvin, Janet Julian,
Directors : J. Larry Carroll,

A deep-frozen 400-year-old samurai is shipped to Los Angeles, where he comes back to life. Dazed and confused, he goes on a rampage. Can the female scientist and her colleague who revived him stop him before it's too late?

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

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

Actors : Raizô Ichikawa, Michiko Sugata, Kei Satô, Ryûtarô Gomi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Hanpei is an orphan mistreated by other vassals of the manor. He loves flowers and is named the castle gardener. One day in the forest he meets a samurai who teaches him his technique. To ...

Actors : Ariyon Bakare, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Paul Bettany, Louise Lombard,
Directors : Ross Kettle,

Steph, an Afrikaner, struggles with his past and heritage in the new South Africa. When his girlfriend befriends a black South African man called Vusisizwe trouble brews.

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 : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Carmen Argenziano, James Iglehart, Jayne Kennedy,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

An American Vietnam soldier on his way home is left for dead and is saved by a pair of Japanese stragglers from WWII, who train him in the way of the samurai.

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.

Actors : Masayo Banri, Mayumi Nagisa, Shiho Fujimura, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

A samurai seeks revenge and redemption after his family is executed by a rival clan.

Actors : Mayumi Ogawa, Yôko Yamamoto, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.