Topic: Samurai

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)

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...

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...

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,...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Ineko Arima · Ganjiro Nakamura · Mieko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...