Topic: Samurai
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Harakiri
1962 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan
Direction Masaki Kobayashi
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Akira Ishihama · Shima Iwashita
Plot A ronin, a masterless samurai, requests permission to commit an honorable ritual suicide at the home of a powerful but sadistic warlord. The warlord is reluctant to permit this as...
8.5
11K votes
8.5
11K votes
Seven Samurai
1954 · Movie · 205 min. · Japan
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Yoshio Inaba · Seiji Miyaguchi
Plot Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai' follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The farmers know that when...
8.4
41K votes
8.4
41K votes
Samurai Rebellion
1967 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan
Direction Masaki Kobayashi
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Go Kato · Tatsuya Nakadai
Plot In 1725, during a peaceful period in Japan, Isaburo, a veteran samurai, lives placidly with his wife and his son. One day, his honor and moral principles will be at...
8.2
2K votes
8.2
2K votes
Blue Eye Samurai (TV Series)
2023 · Series · 45 min. · United States
Direction Michael Green · Amber Noizumi · Earl A. Hibbert · Ryan O'Loughlin
Cast Maya Erskine · Masi Oka · Darren Barnet · Brenda Song
Plot A mixed-race master of the sword lives a life in disguise while seeking revenge in Edo-period Japan.
8.1
5K votes
8.1
5K votes
Throne of Blood
1957 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Takashi Shimura · Akira Kubo
Plot 'Macbeth' is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan. Taketoki Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) is a valiant warrior whose life is transformed by an encounter with a ghostly female spirit. The...
8.1
8K votes
8.1
8K votes
Yojimbo
1961 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yôko Tsukasa · Isuzu Yamada
Plot In the 19th century, in a Feudal Japan, a samurai arrives to a rural village that is divided between two groups; neither side is particularly honorable. As he shows his...
8.1
14K votes
8.1
14K votes
Rashomon
1950 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Takashi Shimura
Plot In 12th century Japan, Masako (Machiko Kyo) and her husband Takehiro (Masayuki Mori) are attacked in the woods by armed bandit Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune), who then murders her husband. After...
8.1
20K votes
8.1
20K votes
Rurouni Kenshin: Reminiscence
1999 · Movie · 122 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Plot Taken by slavers when he was a child, Himura Kenshin is rescued only when an encounter with bandits kills off everyone but him. He is found by a master of...
7.9
5K votes
7.9
5K votes
Samurai Jack II (TV Series)
2017 · Series · 20 min. · United States
Direction Genndy Tartakovsky
Plot TV Series (2017). 1 Season. 10 Episodes. It's been 50 years since we saw Samurai Jack and time has not been kind to him. Aku has destroyed every time portal...
7.9
471 votes
7.9
471 votes
Samurai Champloo (TV Series)
2004 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Shin'ichirō Watanabe
Plot TV Series (2004-2005). 1 season. 26 episodes. Mugen's a buck wild warrior: violent, thoughtless and womanizing. Jin is a vagrant ronin: mysterious, traditional, well-mannered and very strong. These two fiercely...
7.8
8K votes
7.8
8K votes
Gintama: The Final
2021 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan
Direction Yôichi Fujita · Chizuru Miyawaki
Cast Rie Kugimiya · Daisuke Sakaguchi · Hideaki Sorachi · Tomokazu Sugita
Plot Final film giving a conclusion to "Gintama" anime series. The film will be based on the finale of the original manga, combined with new story elements. (Source: ANN)
7.8
40 votes
7.8
40 votes
Sanjuro
1962 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiju Kobayashi · Yûzô Kayama
Plot In Japan circa Eighteenth Century, nine young men decide to present an accusation of corruption in their clan to the local superintendent. However, the group is betrayed, but the ronin...
7.8
4K votes
7.8
4K votes
Kwaidan
1964 · Movie · 164 min. · Japan
Direction Masaki Kobayashi
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Katsuo Nakamura · Kei Sato
Plot This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his...
7.7
4K votes
7.7
4K votes
Rurouni Kenshin: Wandering Samurai (TV Series)
1996 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuhiro Furuhashi · Kaeko Sakamoto · Hiroshi Morioka · Yûji Mitsuya
Plot TV Series (1996-1999). 3 seasons. 95 episodes. Himura Kenshin is a vagabond with a dark past and sunny disposition. Not a ronin but a rurouni, he was never a samurai,...
7.7
9K votes
7.7
9K votes
Love Under the Crucifix
1962 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan
Direction Kinuyo Tanaka
Cast Ineko Arima · Ganjiro Nakamura · Mieko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai
7.6
84 votes
7.6
84 votes
The Twilight Samurai
2002 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan
Direction Yôji Yamada
Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Rie Miyazawa · Nenji Kobayashi · Min Tanaka
Plot 19th century Japan. Seibei, a just-widowed samurai, struggles to care for his senile mother and two young daughters. He holds back from a possible remarriage, self-conscious about his poverty. When...
7.6
5K votes
7.6
5K votes
Gintama (TV Series)
2006 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Shinji Takamatsu · Yôichi Fujita · Hirofumi Ogura · Hiroyuki Hata
Plot TV Series (2005-2018). 8 Seasons. 375 Episodes. Sakata Gintoki is a samurai living in an era when samurais are no longer needed. To add to his troubles, oppressive aliens have...
7.6
346 votes
7.6
346 votes
The Hidden Fortress
1958 · Movie · 139 min. · Japan
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Minoru Chiaki · Misa Uehara · Takashi Shimura
Plot Princess Yuki Akizuki ("Yukihime" in Japanese) is to be led through enemy territory, where she may rebuild her kingdom with gold that she has in her caravan. She is assisted...
7.6
5K votes
7.6
5K votes
Rurouni Kenshin (TV Series)
2023 · Series · min. · Japan
Direction Hideyo Yamamoto
Plot Himura Kenshin is a vagabond with a dark past and sunny disposition. Not a ronin but a rurouni, he was never a samurai, but an assassin of utmost skill in...
7.6
89 votes
7.6
89 votes
The Black Cat
1968 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan
Direction Kaneto Shindô
Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Kei Sato
Plot A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are...
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes