Best Samurai movies

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Yukie Nakama, Masato Sakai, Kimimaro Ayanokôji, Mina Fujii,
Directors : Yoshimitsu Morita,

A low-income samurai struggling to survive when the philosophy and their reason of existence is being questioned and phased out.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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, David Efron, Thomas Ian Griffith, 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 : 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.

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 : 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 : 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 ...