Best Samurai movies

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

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

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 : 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 : 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 : Teruhiko Saigô, Takahiro Tamura, Ken Ogata, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Toranosuke Sugi, a brave and loyal Samurai, fights to practice and preserve his master's teachings amid a civil war. With friends on both side will he cave to temptation, or stand on principle and for freedom?

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 : Mayumi Ogawa, Yôko Yamamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, James Ryan, John Fujioka, 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 : 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 : 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 : Ying Cao, Andy Lau, Jin Chiu, 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 : 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 : 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 ...