Most popular Samurai movies

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 : 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 : 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 : Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
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 : 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 : 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 : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Naitô, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

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 : 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 : Mark Dacascos, Anna Akana, Mike Moh, Teresa Ting,
Directors : Ron Yuan,

Ancient Japanese Ronin warriors set 300 years after 47 Ronin, in a modern-day world where Samurai clans exist in complete secrecy.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Gô Katô, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.

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 : Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.

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

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

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 : Miyuki Kuwano, Isamu Nagato, Mikijirô Hira, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

When poor peasants kidnap a magistrate's daughter to coerce him into reducing taxes, a wandering ronin and two renegades from the magistrate's guard take up the fight for them.

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 : Rokkô Toura, Kei Satô, Nobuko Otowa, Kichiemon Nakamura,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Actors : Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Catherine Deneuve, Justin Chambers,
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 : Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurô Tanba, Ruriko Asaoka, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.