Ronin movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant ronin movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, serious, stylized, captivating, tense and realistic films and TV shows about / with ronin, samurai, katana, martial arts, fight, sword fight, heroes, rivalry, medieval and violence plots mostly in Drama, Action and Adventure genres shot in Japan, UK, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as ronin: Blade of the Immortal (2017), Killing (2018), 47 Ronin (2013), After the Rain (1999), Ronin (1998), Yojimbo (1961), Snow on The Blades (2014), Samurai Assassin (1965), Dororo (2007), Three Outlaw Samurai (1964).
Best films
List of ronin movies
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan, UK, South Korea
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her ...
Style:
captivating, anime, tense, exciting, epic ...
Plot:
samurai, revenge, shogun, ronin, martial arts, sword fight, one man army, katana, massacre, swordsman, soldier, swashbuckler ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Set during the Edo period, the film follows the life of a ronin (Sosuke Ikematsu) and those around him.
Style:
tense, captivating, exciting, psychological
Plot:
samurai, ronin, revenge, swordsman, gang, fight, village, massacre, battles, murder, political unrest, edo period ...
Place:
japan
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163K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Hungary
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Based on the original 1941 movie from Japan, and from ancient Japan’s most enduring tale, the epic 3D fantasy-adventure 47 Ronin is born. Keanu Reeves leads the cast as Kai, an outcast who joins Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), the leader of the 47 ...
Style:
stylized, exciting, epic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, battles, ronin, shogun, medieval, beast, exile, rivalry, sword and sorcery, heroes, revenge ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, ancient china
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the travelers trapped at the inn. Ihei Misawa is a ronin, a samurai without a master, whose skills ...
Style:
spiritual, captivating, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, ronin, rain, river, medieval, night, forest, asian history, revolution, husband wife relationship, katana, socially awkward ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
japan, asia
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187K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of ...
Style:
exciting, intense, suspenseful, clever, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, mafia, car chase, mercenary, car, cia, heist, spy, lone hero, chase, irish, ira ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, nice france, french riviera
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125K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant ...
Style:
cynical, thought provoking, exciting, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, small town, bodyguard, betrayal, gang, martial arts, rivalry, gang war, ronin, gangsters, mercenary ...
Time:
19th century, future, 1860s, 18th century
Place:
japan, india, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan, Cyprus
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining
Plot:
samurai, murderer, shogun, chase, vengeance, murder, ronin, anger, showdown, obsession, fight, deception ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. 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 Japan for 300 years. They suspect a traitor in their midst, ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
samurai, ronin, medieval, martial arts, father, sword fight, asian history, politics, fight, ancient, assassination, edo period ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The hero, Hyakkimaru is a wandering "demon hunter" whose extra body parts -- 48 to be exact -- were grafted onto his head and trunk by a herb doctor who discovered him as an infant, in a process that echoes "Frankenstein" and ...
Style:
anime, captivating, tense, psychological, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
samurai, curse, martial arts, shaman, good versus evil, destiny, rivalry, decapitation, vengeance, friendship, uncover truth, supernatural ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the ...
Style:
cynical, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
samurai, katana, martial arts, change of heart, bribery, betrayal, medieval, shame, peasant, murder, infamy, ronin ...
Place:
japan
Is relevant ?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Style:
unusual plot structure, intense, visually appealing, harsh, tense ...
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, samurai sword, warrior, seppuku, battles, martial arts, revenge, fight, massacre, shogun, swordsman ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
During the 16th century, pirates rule the Chinese coastline, pillaging the small villages and terrorizing the citizens. When maverick leader Commander Yu enlists the help of a sharp young general, they devise a plan to defeat the pirates. A violent ...
Style:
captivating, exciting
Plot:
martial arts, chinese history, sword fight, pirate, kingdom, protection, squad, kung fu, samurai, japanese man, musket, violence ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
ancient china
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Fūrin Kazan was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007.
The four characters from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot:
samurai, ronin, siege, power struggle, strategy, fight for supremacy, intrigue, fight, warrior, battles, historical event, taiga
Time:
16th century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is ...
Style:
stylized, intense, anime, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, katana, martial arts, sword fight, survival, suspense, redemption, assassin, ambition, good versus evil, rivalry, political unrest ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
japan, hong kong, tokyo, asia, kyoto japan
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, jidai geki
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, medieval, betrayal, katana, ronin, hotel, edo period, bandit, samurai sword, sword fight, ambush ...
Place:
japan, asia
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59K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, melancholic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
samurai, suicide, poverty, revenge, vengeance, seppuku, sword fight, courage, tragedy, life & death, rivalry, society ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Former legendary assassin Kenshin Himura has now become a wandering samurai. Offering aid & protecting those in need as atonement for his past deeds. During this time Kenshin Himura comes across and aides Kaoru Kamiya (Emi Takei). Her father ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, anime, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, master warrior, heroes, drifter, katana, japanese culture, massacre, swordsman, shogun, one man army, fight ...
Time:
1860s, 1870s, 19th century
Place:
japan, ancient china, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
Style:
tense, serious, bleak, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
samurai, revenge, feudal japan, life is a bitch, society, vengeance, loss of son, down on your luck, rivalry, medieval, winter, hara kiri ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Kane Madison is an architect working in Los Angeles while his doppelganger-like spirit, an eighteenth century Ronin, wanders a parallel netherworld of masked demons and Japanese swordsmen. When tragedy strikes, Kane embarks on a journey of faith ...
Style:
christian film
Plot:
christian, ronin, samurai, demon, katana, faith, bible, sword, sword fight, architect, christianity, martial arts
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Genre: Drama, Adventure, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.
Style:
serious, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, cult film
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, mafia, ronin, warrior, katana, imperialism, gangsters, rivalry, vengeance, lone wolves, one man army ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Shigurui is a manga series written by Norio Nanjo and illustrated by Takayuki Yamaguchi, based on the first chapter of the novel Suruga-jō Gozen Jiai by Norio Nanjō.
An animated television adaptation, based on the first 32 chapters of the manga, ...
Style:
anime, stylized, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
samurai, mercilessness, blind character, contests and competitions, martial arts, rivalry, duel, ambition, haunted by the past, championship, ruler, opponent ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant ?
15K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones ...
Style:
anime, exciting, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
samurai, friendship, demon, society, suspense, uncover truth, violence, supernatural, losing-it hero, poverty, curse, virgin sacrifice ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, epic, anime ...
Plot:
swordsman, master warrior, medieval, katana, fight, destruction, combat, confronting the past, showdown, haunted by the past, escapades, lifestyle change ...
Place:
japan
Is relevant ?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
Style:
bloody, stylized, atmospheric, affectionate, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, master warrior, sword fight, fight, ninja, father son relationship, weapons, cult, martial artist, female ninja, lone wolves ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
A Black samurai goes on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father in a futuristic feudal Japan.In the Afro Samurai world there are many headbands and they signify the best fighters in the world. If a person should hold number 1, they are ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, perverse, adult anime, adult cartoon ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
samurai, death, escapades, master warrior, killings, sword fight, ghost, lone wolves, sexual activity, one man army, conscience, african american ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan
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50K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Zatôichi is a 19th century blind nomad who makes his living as a gambler and masseur. However, behind this humble facade, he is a master swordsman gifted with a lightning-fast draw and breathtaking precision. While wandering, Zatôichi discovers a ...
Style:
atmospheric, humorous, exciting, harsh, stylized ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, sword fight, vengeance, master warrior, gang, violence, good versus evil, protector, blind character, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
Style:
exciting, stylized, anime, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, samurai era, martial arts, fight, heroes, good versus evil, master warrior, medieval, battles, hitman, showdown, suspense ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Kyokutei Bakin's classic Japanese epic novel Nansou Satomi Hakkenden, eight samurai serve the Satomi clan during Japan's tumultuous Sengoku (Warring States) era. The Edo-era samurai are the reincarnations of the spirits that Princess ...
Style:
anime, atmospheric, stylized, semi serious, fairy tale
Audience:
kids
Plot:
legend, supernatural, hunter, samurai, disguise, travel, creature, teenage girl, supernatural ability, magic, mission, heroic mission ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, stylized ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, medieval, kung fu, ronin, tokugawa shogunate, ancient, fight, fencing, gambling, strangulation, reform ...
Time:
19th century, 60s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old ghost, Rokubei. At first Emi is hesitant, but when she pursues her lead she is visited by the ghost ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing
Plot:
courtroom, court, murder, breakup, explorer, small business owner, descendant, asian woman, japanese woman, lawyer, judge, murderer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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