Critically acclaimed Samurai movies

Actors : Mieko Harada, Jun'ichi Okada, Kôji Yakusho, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Hiromi Hanazono, Chikage Awashima, Ryôsuke Kagawa, Kensaku Hara,
Directors : Tomu Uchida,

Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit Harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of two kabuki actresses who helped him enjoy what he thought would be his final days.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Eijirô Tôno, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Actors : Sentarô Fushimi, Yoshiko Fujishiro, Yumiko Mihara, Jûshirô Konoe,
Directors : Tai Katô,

Tamiya, an egomaniacal samurai, determines to reunite with his wife Oiwa, who's left him after a murder scandal. When her sister Osode is tricked into prostitution by a masseuse, Tamiya is ...

Actors : Eiji Okada, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Shingo Yamashiro, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed samurai with nothing to do, and their morale...

Actors : Utaemon Ichikawa, Sentarô Fushimi, Hiroki Matsukata, Jûshirô Konoe,

A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famous spear fighter and warrior, is a vassal of lord Honjo. One of Honjo's most trusted ...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn.

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Chûsha Ichikawa, Akira Takarada, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

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 : Ryôhei Uchida, Kôtarô Satomi, Chiezô Kataoka, Takayuki Akutagawa,
Directors : Eiichi Kudô,

A group of samurai plan to assassinate a sadistic feudal lord.

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 : Shinobu Araki, Tamao Nakamura, 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 : 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 : 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.