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Seven Samurai. 1954 3h 27m Not Rated. 8.6 (368K) Rate. 98 Metascore. Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him. Director Akira Kurosawa Stars Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Keiko Tsushima. 2. Harakiri. 1962 2h 13m Not Rated. 8.6 (69K) Rate. 85 Metascore.
Top 65 Samurai Movies. by transitasis • Created 11 years ago • Modified 8 years ago. List activity. 173K views. 29 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 66 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Yojimbo. 1961 1h 50m Not Rated. 8.2 (132K) Rate. 93 Metascore.
50 Greatest Samurai Films. Paste Magazine's List of the Greatest 50 Samurai Films in Chronological Order. All installments of The Lone & Cub, Samurai and Satan's Swords Trilogy are included so there are 60 films in the list, not just 50.
May 5, 2024 · 1. Seven Samurai. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Eijirō Tōno. 154 votes. Seven Samurai, directed by the legendary Akira Kurosawa, has been widely regarded as a masterpiece of Japanese cinema and is often considered one of the greatest films ever made.
- Seven Samurai
- Samurai Trilogy
- Throne of Blood
- Yojimbo
- Harakiri
- Sanjuro
- The Tale of Zatoichi
- Chūshingura
- Three Outlaw Samurai
- The Sword of Doom
Director:Akira Kurosawa While certainly not the first samurai story committed to film, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai nonetheless set a standard, pretty much from the moment it was released. Kurosawa had famously extended production costs, along with the timeline Toho Studios had wanted him to adhere to. It worked out, as the film would go on to be...
Director:Hiroshi Inagaki Is it cheating to allow for the inclusion of a trilogy on this best samurai movies list? I suppose so, since it’s fairly difficult to watch just one of these. That means setting aside 300+ minutes for director Hiroshi Inagaki’s masterpiece depiction of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto. I will grant you that’s a lot of...
Director:Akira Kurosawa Throne of Blood is quite possibly the finest marriage of Shakespeare with feudal Japan. It is yet another extraordinary collaboration between Toshiro Mifune, playing essentially Macbeth, and Akira Kurosawa, who was no stranger to using outside influences to tell decidedly Japanese stories. Throne of Blood is perhaps best app...
Director:Akira Kurosawa The truth of the matter is that there isn’t a bad Kurosawa/Mifune collaboration in the bunch. It is even more impressive when you consider the variety in the stories they told together. Yojimbo is considerably more lighthearted than anything else they ever did. It is still packed with suspense, as well as some of the most en...
Director:Masaki Kobayashi A deeply effecting mediation on hypocrisy, the madness of a code, and similar subjects, Harakiri is one of the most emotionally devastating entries on this list. While this high drama by director Masaki Kobayashi has some memorable fight scenes, particularly close to the end, this is more of a human story than anything els...
Director:Akira Kurosawa Just one year after the success of Yojimbo, Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa teamed up again to take the character into a darker territory. The result is Mifune playing the character with a little less aloofness, in a story in which Sanjuro assists a group of young men who are trying to obliterate corruption from their clan...
Director: Kenji Misumi The first in a long series of successful films from Dalei Studios, The Tale of Zatoichi accomplishes two things. It is a wonderful introduction to Zatoichi, played here (and for the course of this film series) by the immensely talented Shintaro Katsu. It is easy to fall in love with Zatoichi’s loner ideals, and with the fact ...
Director:Hiroshi Inagaki Of the many cinematic versions of the famous 47 Ronin story, the Hiroshi Inagaki-directed Chūshingura is perhaps my favorite. Running 207 minutes, this is another entry on the list that will demand a lot of your time. Samurai narratives lend themselves well to epic film storytelling. Chūshingura is a clear example of that. ...
Director:Hideo Gosha A prequel film for a popular TV series, Hideo Gosha made a ferocious feature film debut that has since come to be regarded as one of the most enjoyable and accessible samurai movies of all time. Three Outlaw Samurai benefits from great characters, particularly the three titular outlaws. At the same time, the movie also keeps th...
Director:Kihachi Okamoto Directed by the fascinating Kihachi Okamoto, The Sword of Doom is one of the great showcases for Tatsuya Nakadai, who is no stranger to list of great samurai movies at this point. A samurai of questionable morals, Ryunosuke Tsukue is compelling but insufferable, when we first meet him. This is just the beginning of a redemp...
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Apr 26, 2024 · 1. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail Year: 1945. Director: Akira Kurosawa. We’ll be hearing much more from Akira Kurosawa throughout this list, so it’s worth it to have a look at one of his...
Mar 23, 2022 · From Hara-Kiri to Seven Samurai, these are the best of the best of the genre according to Rotten Tomatoes. Updated on March 23rd, 2022 by Tanner Fox: In the modern era, samurai films are typically construed to be tropey and played out.
