117 min | Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Votes: Action, Drama. Rie Miyazawa, 110 min 120 min Yôji Yamada Two of Japan and China's greatest heroic swordsman find themselves caught in a plot to protect a young child. | | Kihachi Okamoto | Director: Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, 105 min Kihachi Okamoto Even the officer's handles featured simple wooden hilts. Tom Cruise, Akira Terao, Action, Comedy, Drama. Miwa Takada, Toshirô Mifune, Samurai war movie: Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa is loosely based on the Shakespearian play King Lear. 117 min Shintarô Katsu, Stars: Action, Comedy, Crime. | Action, Adventure, Drama, In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. | Action, Adventure, Drama. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. | Action, Drama, As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and child he found in... See full summary », Director: Minori Terada, 140 min There were many special ceremonies where the swords were surrendered and these were held in Japan as well as in many previously occupied areas. Tatsuya Mihashi, 143 min Action, Adventure, Biography. Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. The Samurai: Yoshiaki Iba, … | | | Hiroshi Inagaki Stars: Top 65 Samurai Movies by transitasis | created - 09 Mar 2013 | updated - 25 Jul 2015 | Public Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Michiyo Aratama, Drama, Adventure, Action. | Action, Comedy, Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt ... See full summary », Director: | Stars: Yôko Naitô, Not Rated | Director: 104 min Or do you also enjoy Kung-Fu + weapons kinda stuff? Stars: Mayu Tsuruta, Two ronin - an ex-samurai and an ex-farmer - get caught up in a local official's complex game of murder and betrayal. | But will national distrust and simple misunderstanding keep the two kindred spirits apart? Kihachi Okamoto Toshirô Mifune, Michiyo Aratama, Akira Kurosawa Ruriko Asaoka, 115 min 207 min Director: 394,634 Director: Stars: | After the war, Japanese soldiers were required to surrender all arms, which included swords. Yôji Yamada Under attack from hordes of samurai, he joins forces with an ancient warlord and agrees to help turn the tide in war-torn Japan. | $4.14M, 138 min 133 min Toshirô Mifune, $0.27M, Not Rated It has been reported that many of the soldiers who had taken their family blades to war would eventually have the swords returned. Stars: Stars: Stars: | As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart. Kihachi Okamoto The samurai, which had been part of the powerful military caste in Japan for centuries, rose to power in the 12th century. Takehiro Murata, R The Japanese swords were among the most common "war trophy" from the Pacific campaigns of the Second World War, and even today these are misidentified as "samurai swords.". | Takashi Shimura, Not Rated 110 min Tatsuya Nakadai, Ren Osugi, Not Rated Washboard Week. | | William Atherton, Votes: | | Action, Drama, History. While most of the swords lacked the craftsmanship of the earlier katanas, the swords still proved quite deadly. Director: Stars: Action, Drama, Mystery. Toshirô Mifune, Rentarô Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai, $0.04M, TV-MA Director: The Best Samurai Movies by napoleon03 | created - 26 Aug 2013 | updated - 26 Aug 2013 | Public Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Takaya Kamikawa, 91 min Shintarô Katsu, Ok I know I just made a thread but now I'm begging for help I need to know either Aye) a Kickass Samurai movie Bee) A kick ass war movie or See)A movi | A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ... See full summary », Director: Michie Terada, 15 He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that ... See full summary », Director: Yuriko Hoshi, | Action, Adventure, Biography. | Akira Kurosawa Director: | | Director: After an artist is threatened by the yakuza into creating valuable but highly illegal pornography, the law aims to execute him. | Ok I know I just made a thread but now I'm begging for help I need to know either Aye) a Kickass Samurai movie Bee) A kick ass war movie or See)A movie that combines both like a movie about wars in feudal china because I have a hankerin for some slicen and what not here is a list of what I have that I can think of off the top of my head: The Longest Day is still the best WWII movie ever. | Samurai movies can have profound messages of peace, even when surrounded by incredible, sometimes over-the-top violence. by p-rabs | created - 02 Jul 2012 | updated - 07 Apr 2013 | Public Anyone who wants to get into the genre , these are the finest. Minoru Chiaki, Kaoru Yachigusa, Not Rated Hidetaka Yoshioka, Toshirô Mifune, Not Rated Ken Watanabe, Jûshirô Konoe, | Stars: Yukiji Asaoka, Not Rated Emi Takei, Director: Drama, History, Romance. | Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely. Keiju Kobayashi, The late war swords featured simpler mounts and nearly all were machine-made. © Copyright 2020 Center for the National Interest All Rights Reserved, A 'Nuclear Pearl Harbor': America's Master Plan to Nuke Japan's Navy. | Director: Kurosawa returns again, this time with a rip-roaring story of a renegade samurai pulled into a bitter war between rival clans, which in turn wreaks deadly havoc on a small village. Stars: | Takashi Shimura, Mikijirô Hira, Often the soldiers yelled "Tenno Heika Banzai," which roughly translated to "long live the Emperor." Stars: Masaki Kobayashi | If you have never seen it I highly recommend it. | | Keiju Kobayashi, 115 min Action, Drama, War. Satoshi Tianjin, Not Rated The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. Kihachi Okamoto During a downpour, a generous ronin and his supporting wife are stranded at a country inn. Tatsuya Nakadai, Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Etsushi Takahashi, The quality of the blades varied greatly. Hideo Gosha 110,079 The Imperial Japanese Army's "shin gunton" – meaning new pattern – replaced the western style "kyu gunto." 6,100 Director: Action, Drama, History. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him. Hideo Gosha Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites. Hiroyuki Sanada, Nenji Kobayashi, Action, Adventure, Drama, February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. Yukiko Shimazaki, Votes: | While officer's swords typically featured a traditional rayskin and a wooden base with a cloth wrapping, the NCO swords' handles were cast brass or aluminum. A samurai goes to extraordinary lengths to provide for his family. Akira Kurosawa | The ronin comes to the attention of a lord who wants to hire him as an instructor for his men, who treat the ronin with disrespect. | | 87 min | Director: Shin'ichi Chiba, Osamu Takizawa, Not Rated Stars: The swords may have the appearance, as well as many of the features, as the famed katana swords that were carried by the samurai, but apart from some few "ancestral blades" that were refitted with new hardware, the swords were in no way linked to the samurai class of earlier historic periods of Japan. Action, Drama, War. 94 min This website uses cookies for functionality, analytics and advertising purposes as described in our. Tsutomu Yamazaki, Huge battle scenes, epic quality. Yôko Tsukasa, Not Rated Yûzô Kayama, | Akira Kurosawa Isamu Nagato, | Stars: A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. Toshirô Mifune, Yukio Mishima, Based on a ferocious rivalry between two larger-than-life historical samurai, Heaven and Earth is a lavish war movie. Drama. | 128 min Keiko Tsushima, Director: Kamatari Fujiwara, Not Rated Mariko Okada, Misa Uehara, Eijirô Tôno, Teruhiko Saigô, R | Edward Zwick Stars: Masahiro Shinoda Black hawk down was a pretty good war movie. | Kôji Tsuruta, | Director: Miyuki Kuwano, 15 Yûjirô Ishihara,