Critically acclaimed Samurai movies

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Ikki Sawamura,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Ren Ôsugi, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

A 19th-century samurai tries to protect a battered wife.

Actors : Billy Connolly, Tom Cruise, William Atherton, Ken Watanabe,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.

Actors : Hana Sugisaki, Hayato Ichihara, Sôta Fukushi, Takuya Kimura,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine - ...

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

Actors : Sofia Boutella, Bill Moseley, Nick Cassavetes, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Sion Sono,

A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Hikari Mitsushima, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

Actors : Hidetaka Yoshioka, Takako Matsu, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Masatoshi Nagase,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo and Samon as he leaves their clan's fiefdom on the northwest coast of Japan ...

Actors : Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Justin Chambers, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Alexander Dumas' novel is updated with an eastern influence as D'Artagnan attempts to join the king's elite guards, the Royal Musketeers, and find the man who killed his parents.

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano, Keanu Reeves,
Directors : Carl Rinsch,

A band of samurai set out to avenge the death and dishonor of their master at the hands of a ruthless shogun.

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Shinji Takeda, Ryûhei Matsuda, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.

Actors : Nagiko Tôno, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masatoshi Nagase, Misa Shimizu,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

19th century. Oshin is a prostitute in a brothel of a red-light district. A disgraced samurai, Fusanosuke, rushes in the brothel seeking for a refuge, because he had wounded a powerful ...

Actors : Kento Yamazaki, Ben Hiura, Yôsuke Saitô, Tak Sakaguchi,
Directors : Yûji Shimomura,

This film, taken around the time of "Out and Deluxe," consists of the most famous battle of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. In this 77-minute, one-scene, no-cut action sequence, Miyamoto (...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Actors : Jûkichi Uno, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Actors : Seizô Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Gôda, Hirotarô Honda,
Directors : Ken Ochiai,

The film centers an aged movie extra who specializes to be killed in samurai movies without ever being lit by the limelight. Using Charlie Chaplin's film Limelight as an underlying theme, ...

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Shôgen Nitta, Tomisaburô Wakayama,

When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.

Actors : Yûko Asano, Kôji Yakusho, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Ryûdô Uzaki,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

New magistrate cleans up a corrupt town in his own comic Samurai way.

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 ...