Best Samurai movies

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 : 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 : Michiko Sugata, Raizô Ichikawa, 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 : 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.

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Shinobu Araki, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ohzora, Mariko Okada, Junko Ikeuchi,
Directors : Shirô Toyoda,

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

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 : 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 : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masaomi Kondô, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
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 »