Best Samurai movies

Actors : Kohji Katoh, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yû Aoi,
Directors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto,

Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan Killing is the story of a masterless samurai or ronin named Ikematsu Sosuke. As the prevalent peace and tranquility are sure ...

Actors : Ying Cao, Jin Chiu, Andy Lau, Brigitte Lin,
Directors : Taylor Wong,

Dazzling swordplay and eye-poping battles highlight this story of the top three swordsmen in central China; Samurai, Smiling Sam and Big Knife who become involved in a plot to recover the ...

Actors : Kaoru Yachigusa, Shiho Fujimura, Raizô Ichikawa, Ichirô Nakatani,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence.

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 : Shinobu Araki, Tamao Nakamura, Saburô Date, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double crosses. The leader of the Kaga clan, who ...

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 : Narumi Yasuda, Mikijirô Hira, Haruko Wanibuchi, Masahiro Takashima,
Directors : Kaizô Hayashi,

Jigoku is a samurai outlaw who is on the run with his motley bunch of followers. There's a bounty on his head with a cute female bounty hunter named Yuri The Pistol who's an ace gunslinger ...

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 : 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.

Actors : Kyûsaku Shimada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Moeko Ezawa, Nozomi Andô,
Directors : Tomo'o Haraguchi,

The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these demons, accepts a mission to travel to ...

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 : Hizuru Takachiho, Masayo Banri, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Umetsugu Inoue,

A warlords' retainer offers a farmer the chance to become a samurai, but he is instead forced to serve as a double of the warlord at expense of his freedom.

Actors : Julia Faye West, Kimberly Cohen, Dallas Chandler, Jesse Aaron,
Directors : Jared Masters,

Two ballerinas plan a gruesome attack on the ballet school that mistreated them.

Actors : Craig Shugart, Thomas Ian Griffith, David Efron, Mary Page Keller,
Directors : James Becket,

On the eve of a big US-Japan trade summit, a reporter gets a hot tip that the Japanese-American head of a big aerospace firm will be selling trade secrets to a Japanese contact. Intent on ...

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 : Shiho Fujimura, Shigeru Amachi, Raizô Ichikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

As change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of respect for their leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement goes, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.

Actors : Yûji Oda, Makoto Fujita, Shin'yû Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Hayashi,
Directors : Yoshimitsu Morita,

A scruffy master-less samurai decides to help a group of young warriors whose leader was taken captive by a gang of ambitious officers.

Actors : Bin Amatsu, Keiko Awaji, Takuya Fujioka, Kiyoshi Hitomi,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange ...

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 : Timothy Patrick Murphy, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Mike Starr,
Directors : Tsugunobu Kotani,

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.