Best Samurai movies

Actors : Ryûji Harada, Tatsuo Higashida, Masara Ibu, Nozomi Andô,
Directors : Tomo'o Haraguchi,

A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.

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

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ohzora, Mariko Okada, Junko Ikeuchi,
Directors : Shirô Toyoda,

A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife.

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 : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Masaomi Kondô,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701 -- 1702, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the ... See full synopsis »

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 : 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 : Keiko Matsuzaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Kôshirô Matsumoto,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.

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 : Kôki Okada, Rumi Hanai, Kayano Masuyama, Noboru Kaneko,
Directors : Shûsuke Kaneko,

Four samurai girls disguise themselves as j-pop idols in order to stop an invasion from a parallel universe.