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List of samurai movies

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Samurai Marathon (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The American imperialists are at the door and intruding on Japan. To assess and train his troops the lord of the land announces a marathon through the land crisscrossing shores, forests and the mountain. The shogunate in Edo was not approving and ...
Style: tense, captivating, bloody, intense, exciting ...
Plot: samurai, swordsman, edo period, marathon, spy, rivalry, princess, rescue, imperialism, japanese history, samurai era, japanese woman ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: japan, asia
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Incident at Blood Island (1970)
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: serious, realistic, jidai geki
Plot: samurai, medieval, martial arts, ronin, zatoichi, edo period, betrayal, inn, katana, bandit, ambush, samurai sword ...
Place: japan, asia
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Samurai Champloo (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Mugen is a ferocious, animalistic warrior with a fighting style inspired by break-dancing. Jin is a ronin samurai who wanders the countryside alone. They may not be friends, but their paths continually cross. And when ditzy waitress Fuu gets ...
Style: anime, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: samurai, pride and honor, martial arts, sword fight, friendship, master warrior, danger, katana, breakdance, on the road, road trip, journey ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, okinawa japan
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Samurai Assassin (1965)
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, realistic, serious, bleak, rough ...
Plot: samurai, ronin, medieval, martial arts, father, sword fight, politics, fight, asian history, ancient, badass, american civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Mumon: The Land of Stealth (2017)
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon (Satoshi Ohno, of idol group Arashi) is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychedelic
Plot: ninja, samurai, ninja warrior, sword fight, medieval, warlord, ninja master, assassination plot, warrior, battles, fight for supremacy, gang ...
Place: japan
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Samurai Banners (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, jidai geki
Plot: samurai, power relations, betrayal, politics, state affairs, military, fall in love, master warrior, dishonesty, heroes, medieval, violent content ...
Time: 16th century, medieval times
Place: japan, asia
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 6.8
 8K
Taboo (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan, France, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai ...
Style: stylized, atmospheric, tense, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, secrets, murder mystery, samurai, sword fight, emperor, lgbt, boys love, medieval, wartime, life philosophy ...
Time: 19th century, year 1999, 1800s
Place: japan, asia, kyoto japan
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Blade of the Immortal (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: A young girl named Rin seeks to avenge her parents, who were ruthlessly killed by a group of master swordsmen, with the help of cursed samurai Manji, who is seemingly immortal.
Style: anime, bloody, brutal, philosophical, melancholic ...
Plot: samurai, medieval, revenge, murderer, partner, journey, love, redemption, oath, battles, antigua, supernatural ...
Place: japan
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The Shogun's Samurai (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother ...
Style: perverse, epic, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: samurai, ninja, martial arts, medieval, japanese history, shogun, asian history, kung fu, rivalry, strong violent content, conspiracy, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, asia
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 7.6
 502
Revenge (1964)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: This tragic drama shows a young man fettered by Bushido, the way of the Samurai, who tried to escape the chains of his position, but was being forced to die. When the Tokugawa Shogunate ruled the land, Tatsuno castle in Wakisaka Clan's home of ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, jidai geki
Plot: samurai, time travel, revenge killing, injustice, politics, rivalry, vengeance, duel, revenge, feudal japan
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan
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 6.2
 6K
Yasuke (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In a war-torn feudal Japan filled with mechs and magic, the greatest ronin never known, Yasuke, struggles to maintain a peaceful existence after a past life of violence. But when a local village becomes the center of social upheaval between warring ...
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, tense, mecha ...
Plot: ninja warrior, samurai, magic, sword, battles, legend, warrior, fight, showdown, struggle for survival, protector, good versus evil ...
Time: 16th century
Place: japan, africa
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Yamada: Samurai of Ayothaya (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on a true historic figure, Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese adventurer who went to Ayothaya in the 16th century and became a soldier in King Naresuan's army. After the war in Burma it's restless in Ayothaya, because of a mysterious group ...
Style: rough, exciting, realistic, serious, inspirational
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, martial arts, vengeance, master warrior, disorder, military, medieval, misfit, gang, soldier, fish out of water, ninja ...
Time: 16th century
Place: japan, thailand, asia
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Zatoichi: The Last (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, tense ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, homecoming, medieval, forced into action, village, blind man, save the day, protector, murder, danger ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
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 7.0
 3K
Unforgiven (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Set in Hokkaido, Japan in the 1880s. Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), who is on the side of the Edo shogunate government, kills many people. His name is infamous in Kyoto. When the battle at Goryoukaku is about to be finished, Jubei disappears. 10 years ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, period piece, crime drama ...
Plot: samurai, bounty hunter, one last job, redemption, human nature, hopes, vengeance, aging, isolation, wild west, cowboy, fight ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking ...
Style: cult classic, stylized, semi serious, realistic
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, spy, gold, sword fight, handicapped, drifter, kung fu, ancient, clan ...
Place: japan, asia
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Shogun Assassin (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of ...
Style: bloody, grindhouse, visual, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, samurai, kung fu, female nudity, female ninja, violence, yakuza, exploitation, violent, gory, shogun ...
Time: 19th century, 16th century, 15th century
Place: japan, asia
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 6.7
 564
Playboy (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, biting, realistic ...
Plot: samurai, human spirit, fighting the system, rivalry, gang, society, social differences, clan, edo period, legal action, actor's life, prostitute ...
Place: japan
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Sword of the Beast (1965)
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, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, medieval, japanese history, clan, ronin, swordplay, ancient, fight, imperialism, ninja, tokugawa shogunate ...
Time: 19th century, year 1965, 60s
Place: japan
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Heaven and Earth (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, ...
Style: visually appealing, cult classic, epic, psychotronic, serious ...
Plot: samurai, medieval, katana, japanese history, legends and myths, fight, ancient, strong violent content, power relations, battles, chaos, family relations ...
Time: medieval times, 16th century
Place: japan, asia
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 7.6
 16K
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. ...
Style: grindhouse, suspenseful, bloody, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, martial arts, revenge, prison, childbirth, rape and revenge, murder, female killer, female protagonist, samurai, female assassin, rape ...
Time: 19th century, year 1973, 1800s, 1870s, 1890s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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Shigurui: Death Frenzy (2007)
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, contests and competitions, blind character, martial arts, duel, haunted by the past, championship, ruler, opponent, mortal combat, heroes ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, asia
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 6.0
 5K
Izo (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to ...
Style: rough, disturbing, mindfuck, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, time travel, murder, heroic mission, righting the wronged, vengeance, rivalry, vigilantism, danger, master warrior, supernatural, reincarnation ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2000)
Genre: Action, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a trio of fighters known only as "the demons". ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, stylized, surprise ending
Plot: samurai, martial arts, vengeance, danger, escapades, supernatural, supernatural ability, imaginary, good versus evil, military, battles, heroic mission ...
Time: middle ages, 12th century
Place: japan, asia
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Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
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: black and white, period piece, cynical, realistic, serious ...
Plot: samurai, katana, martial arts, medieval, change of heart, bribery, treachery, ancient, sex, fight, fencing, peasant ...
Place: japan
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Shogun's Shadow (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Iemitsu, Tokugawa Shogun III, hates his eldest son Takechiyo; all his love is given to his younger son Tokumatsu. One day, he orders Takechiyo to an initiation rite in Yedo (today's Tokio). Takechiyo lives far away under the surveillance of ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, asian history, countryside, tokugawa shogunate, edo period, journey, fight, live action, band, fighting
Time: 17th century
Place: japan
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: zatoichi, samurai, swordsman, martial arts, conspiracy, handicapped, ronin, swordplay, village, corruption, gangster, violent content ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
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Samurai Resurrection (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overthrowing the shogunate for killing his companions. To do this , he resurrects an army od living dead swordsmen. Between him and his goal, only Yagyu ...
Style: serious, exciting, scary, epic, suspenseful ...
Plot: samurai, shogun, battles, ghost, zombie, heroes, danger, rivalry, vengeance, supernatural, reincarnation, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: japan
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 7.1
 24K
Brother (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, California, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang. This is the first English film by Takeshi Kitano.
Style: harsh, intense, serious, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, mafia, culture clash, organized crime, gang, samurai, suicide, sibling relationship, family relations, gang war, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, los angeles, usa, california
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Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, rough, emotional, serious ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, danger, chases and races, babies and infants, master warrior, motherhood, death of mother, prostitute, martial arts, ninja, murderer ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This 26th film installment of the Zatoichi series sees Shintaro Katsu return to this classic role after a 10 year hiatus. The blind masseur Ichi gets caught between rival Yakuza clans.
Style: cult classic, tense, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, zatoichi, swordsman, ninja, medieval, yakuza, female nudity, ronin, swordplay, clan, handicapped ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
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