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List of All Samurai Cinema Movies
A list of all the best Samurai movies ever made, many of which are streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime. Find these and other great movies that are currently streaming on the best action movie lists on Amazon Prime and Netflix, as well as the Best Foreign Films on Amazon Prime and the Best Foreign Films on Netflix.
This Samurai movie list can be sorted by cast, year, director and more. This list of Samurai films also contains Samurai movie titles that can be clicked on for more information about the film. This Samurai films list can also be copied to start your own.
For other interesting movie lists check out the cartoon movies, black comedy movies and romantic comedy movies lists.
Plenty of well-known directors have been associated with Samurai cinema films, including Kenji Mizoguchi and Hiroshi Inagaki.
- Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Eijirō Tōno
- Released: 1954
- Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese Jidaigeki adventure film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven ronin to combat bandits who ...more - Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Takashi Miike
In this remake of a 1963 film based on historical events, Shinzaemon Shimada leads a team of assassins in 19th-century Japan to eliminate the ruthless Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira, who is wreaking havoc ...more - Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machiko Kyō
- Released: 1950
- Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori and ...more - Tatsuya Nakadai, Mieko Harada, Akira Terao
- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
At the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire, the Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to abdicate and divide his domain amongst his three sons. Taro (Akira ...more - Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Released: 1961
- Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Yojimbo is a 1961 jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a rōnin, portrayed by Toshiro Mifune, who arrives in a small town where competing lords vie for supremacy. The ...more - Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Isuzu Yamada
- Released: 1957
- Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Throne of Blood is a 1957 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film transposes the plot of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama. - Tatsuya Nakadai, Kenichi Hagiwara, Kaori Momoi
- Released: 1980
- Directed by: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda
Kagemusha is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa. In Japanese, kagemusha is a term used to denote a political decoy. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of who is taught ...more - Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Released: 1962
- Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Sanjuro is a 1962 black-and-white Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. It is a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo. Originally an adaptation of the Shūgorō ...more - Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Shin Kishida
- Released: 1972
- Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx is the second in a series of six Japanese martial arts films based on the long-running Lone Wolf and Cub manga series about Ogami Ittō, a wandering ...more - Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Etsuko Ichihara
- Released: 1967
- Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Samurai Rebellion is a 1967 Japanese film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Its original Japanese title is Jōi-uchi: Hairyō tsuma shimatsu, which translates approximately as "Rebellion: Result of the ...more - Taketoshi Naitô, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Yoshi Katō
- Released: 1972
- Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance is a 1972 film directed by Kenji Misumi, the first in a series of six. The film tells the story of Ogami Ittō, a wandering assassin for hire who is accompanied ...more - Toshiro Mifune, Hideyo Amamoto, Akihiko Hirata
- Released: 1965
- Directed by: Kihachi Okamoto
Samurai Assassin is a 1965 Japanese movie directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yunosuke Ito, and Michiyo Aratama. Samurai Assassin is set in 1860, immediately ...more - Toshiro Mifune, Kōji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada
- Released: 1955
- Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Duel at Ichijoji Temple (aka Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple) is a 1955 Japanese samurai film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, and the second film of ...more - Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yūzō Kayama
- Released: 1966
- Directed by: Kihachi Okamoto
The Sword of Doom, is a jidaigeki film released in 1966. It was directed by Kihachi Okamoto and stars Tatsuya Nakadai. It was based on the serial novel of the same title by Kaizan Nakazato. - Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurō Tamba, Akiji Kobayashi
- Released: 1962
- Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Harakiri is a Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The story takes place between 1619 and 1630 during the Edo period and the reign of the Tokugawa shogunate. It tells the story of ...more - Tomisaburo Wakayama, Robert Houston
- Released: 1980
- Directed by: Kenji Misumi, Robert Houston
Shogun Assassin, known in Japan as Kozure Ōkami, is a jidaigeki film made for the British and American markets and released in 1980. In 2006 it was restored and re-released on DVD in North America by ...more - Toshiro Mifune, Rentarō Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe
- Released: 1954
- Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Miyamoto Musashi (aka Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto) is a 1954 Japanese film by Hiroshi Inagaki and the first film of Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy of historical adventures. - Toshiro Mifune, Kōji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa
- Released: 1956
- Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island is a 1956 Japanese samurai film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, and the third film of Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy. - James Earl Jones, Toshiro Mifune, Sonny Chiba
- Released: 1981
- Directed by: Tsugunobu Kotani
The Bushido Blade is a 1981 film, directed by Tom Kotani. Sonny Chiba, Toshiro Mifune, Mako, Laura Gemser and James Earl Jones appear in this movie. This was Richard Boone's last film appearance. - Toshiro Mifune, Sonny Chiba, Hiroyuki Sanada
- Released: 1978
- Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku
Shogun's Samurai, also known as "The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy" and "Intrigue of the Yagyu Clan", is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film, directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is the first ...more - Maaya Sakamoto, Naoto Takenaka, Akio Ōtsuka
- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Masahiro Andô
Sword of the Stranger is a 2007 Japanese anime film directed by Masahiro Andō and produced by animation studio Bones. The film follows Kotaro, a young boy who is hunted by a group of swordsmen from ...more - Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Tetsurō Tamba
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Yoji Yamada
The Twilight Samurai or Tasogare Seibei is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. Set in mid-19th century Japan, a few years before the Meiji Restoration, it follows the life of Seibei Iguchi, ...more - Aya Ueto, Shun Oguri, Joe Odagiri
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Ryuhei Kitamura
Azumi is a manga series created by Yū Koyama in 1994. Its story concerns the title character, a young woman brought up as part of a team of assassins, charged with killing the warlords that threaten ...more - Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Mantoyo Mimasu
- Released: 1942
- Directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi
The second part of this expansive Japanese drama focuses on Kuranosuke Oishi (Chôjûrô Kawarasaki), who has assembled a force of 47 ronin -- masterless samurai -- to avenge the death and dishonor of ...more - Sonny Chiba, Kenzo Karawasaki, Asao Koike
- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Mitsumasa Saito
G.I. Samurai is a 1979 Japanese feature length film focusing on the adventures of a modern day Japan Ground Self-Defense Force team that accidentally travels in time to the Warring States period. The ...more
