Samurai Movies

[ragingfear79]

I have been getting more and more into them since i started taking Japanese in school, i have seen some Zatoichi and the Akira Kurosawa films. Now what other movies do you guys recommend?

[razazteca]

Beat Takeshi in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213682/

[Lil' Bitch]

The Last Samurai

 

If you're into anime, check out Ninja Scroll

[Insane Bump Machine]

You can pass on Last Samurai. You absolutely have to see When The Last Sword Is Drawn, though. Came out at about the same time and is one of the greatest.

 

Others:

Samurai Fiction

Twilight Samurai & The Hidden Blade

Azumi

Lone Wolf and Cub

Hanzo - Razor Sword of Justice

The Sword of Doom

Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi. Hell, everything Zatoichi is fantastic.

 

 

Also, if you don't hate anime you should see Rurouni Kenshin - Trust & Betrayal.

[ragingfear79]

thanks, I love Anime and i have seen Ninja Scroll and some sam x. Thanks guys for the imput.

[Special K]

I second Beat Takeshi's Zatoichi

 

Twilight Samurai, while a very quiet movie, is just lovely.

 

Shogun's Samurai is pretty pimp, in terms of fight scenes. Sonny Chiba is badass in it.

 

The Musashi Miyamoto series (also simply called Samurai, Samurai 2 etc.) Is awesome. If you've seen the Kurosawa movies, you already know how fucking awesome Mifune is.

 

Ninja Scroll is pretty damn cool, but I wouldn't consider it a samurai movie.

[Rendclaw]

Although I wouldn;t classify them as strictly samurai movies, I also recommend Ran and Heaven and Earth. Excellent stuff.

[Ravenbomb]

Yojimbo = greatest samurai movie ever. Anything with Toshiro Mifune in it (samurai-wise) is good stuff