Best Samurai movies

Actors : Yukie Nakama, Masato Sakai, Mina Fujii, Kimimaro Ayanokôji,
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 : 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 : Shun'ya Wazaki, Tetsuko Kobayashi, Asahi Kurizuka,
Directors : Hirokazu Ichimura,

Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi. Hijikata Toshizo is a samurai eager to test his skills and sword ...

Actors : Mieko Harada, Kôji Yakusho, Jun'ichi Okada, Maki Horikita,
Directors : Takashi Koizumi,

A content samurai is given ten years to comprehensively chronicle his clan before he commits harakiri, or ritual disembowelment, for being caught in a tryst with one of the concubines of ...

Actors : Yûko Asano, Kiichi Nakai, Takaaki Enoki, Tsuyoshi Ujiki,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

When an amnesiac woman walks into the household of a young samurai no one knows what to make of the mysterious newcomer. However, with her serene beauty and hard working etiquette both the ...

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Kôjirô Hongô, Fujiko Yamamoto, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The story follows the life of Ryunosuke Tsukue, an amoral samurai and a master swordsman with an unorthodox style.

Actors : Yutaka Takeuchi, Adam LaVorgna, Okiko Saito, Kaho Minami,
Directors : Craig Shimahara,

Kane Madison is an architect working in Los Angeles while his doppelganger-like spirit, an eighteenth century Ronin, wanders a parallel netherworld of masked demons and Japanese swordsmen. ...

Actors : Douglas Robert Jackson, Kimberly Bolin, Kenneth H. Kim, Scott Shaw,
Directors : Scott Shaw,

SAMURAI JOHNNY FRANKENSTEIN is a modern Film-Noir, Martial Art based, Action-Adventure, vividly filmed in Hollywood, California.

Actors : Dencio Padilla, Roberto Gonzalez, Joaquin Fajardo, Johnny Monteiro,
Directors : Leody M. Diaz,

Get out of its way, nothing could stop the Magic Samurai, no outlaw could ever escape its justice / see the most action-packed film of the year.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô, Nobuko Otowa, Ryô Tamura,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he ...

Actors : Hallie Beaune, Stacy Branden, Tracy Branden, Kimberly Arland,
Directors : Adrian DeLude,

After her master is killed, a rogue FBI agent goes under cover into a world of violence, motorcycles, and deceit to discover the truth behind her samurai master's death. Not only does she ...

Actors : Harvey Chao, Jacqueline Humbert, Frances Leeming,
Directors : George Manupelli,

A 400 year old samurai encounters a modern feminist couple in the woods

Actors : Kenjirô Ishiyama, Saburô Date, Reiko Kasahara, Teruo Ishiyama,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

A blind masseur sleeps with the wife of a samurai, who catches them in the act and kills them. The murdered couple return as vengeful ghosts. This film is a remake of a 1957 film. It was the final picture made by Daiei Studios.

Actors : Kyôhei Shibata, Takaaki Enoki, Tôru Nakamura, Yôko Minamino,
Directors : Shin'ichirô Sawai,

Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is one way more ...

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 ...

Actors : Kôjirô Hongô, Kazuo Hasegawa, Shintarô Katsu, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

A team of samurai warriors team up to defeat a shape-changing, supernatural creature.

Actors : Luis Durán, Oscar Gómez, Claudia Goytia, Magdalena Alarcón,
Directors : Christian González,

A film student, Samurai, decides to make a documentary on Casandra's, a table dancer, work and family life. The nearness of both makes her fall in love to the filmmaker. He prefers to leave...

Actors : Utaemon Ichikawa, Minoru Chiaki, Kusuo Abe, Tatsuya Ishiguro,
Directors : Yasushi Sasaki,

When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing so, he uncovers a wider scheme.

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Rentarô Mikuni, Shôgo Shimada, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kengo Furusawa,

1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.

Actors : Jing Chen, Yamson Domingo, Adam Cheng, Jacky Cheung,

Legendary actor, stuntman, fight choreographer and pioneer of Hong Kong's New Wave Movement, Sammo Hung directs (and appears in) a rousing retelling of Akira Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI. The ...