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List of All Samurai Cinema Movies
Updated August 7, 2020 102.6k views 49 items
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 Instant, as well as the Best Foreign Films on Amazon Prime and the Best Foreign Films on Netflix Instant.
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.
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Throne of Blood Dir. by Akira Kurosawa (1957), starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura & Isuzu Yamada
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Kagemusha Dir. by Akira Kurosawa and Ishirō Honda (1980), starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Kenichi Hagiwara & Kaori Momoi
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx Dir. by Kenji Misumi (1972), starring Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburo Wakayama & Shin Kishida
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Samurai Rebellion Dir. by Masaki Kobayashi (1967), starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai & Etsuko Ichihara
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance Dir. by Kenji Misumi (1972), starring Taketoshi Naitô, Tomisaburo Wakayama & Yoshi Katō
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Samurai Assassin Dir. by Kihachi Okamoto (1965), starring Toshiro Mifune, Hideyo Amamoto & Akihiko Hirata
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Duel At Ichijoji Temple Dir. by Hiroshi Inagaki (1955), starring Toshiro Mifune, Akihiko Hirata & Rentarō Mikuni
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The Sword of Doom Dir. by Kihachi Okamoto (1966), starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai & Yūzō Kayama
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Shogun Assassin Dir. by Kenji Misumi and Robert Houston (1980), starring Tomisaburo Wakayama and Robert Houston
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Musashi Miyamoto Dir. by Hiroshi Inagaki (1954), starring Toshiro Mifune, Akihiko Hirata & Rentarō Mikuni
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Duel at Ganryu Island Dir. by Hiroshi Inagaki (1956), starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura & Rentarō Mikuni
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Sanshiro Sugata Dir. by Akira Kurosawa (1943), starring Takashi Shimura, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata & Susumu Fujita
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Bushido Blade Dir. by Tsugunobu Kotani (1981), starring James Earl Jones, Toshiro Mifune & Sonny Chiba
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Shogun's Samurai Dir. by Kinji Fukasaku (1978), starring Toshiro Mifune, Sonny Chiba & Hiroyuki Sanada
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Sword of the Stranger Dir. by Masahiro Andô (2007), starring Maaya Sakamoto, Naoto Takenaka & Akio Ōtsuka
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The Twilight Samurai Dir. by Yoji Yamada (2002), starring Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa & Tetsurō Tamba
