7.3
Inn of Evil
IMDb: 7.3 1971 121 min
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an ...
7.4
The 47 Ronin
IMDb: 7.4 1941 223 min
Produced over a two-year period, Kenji Mizoguchi’s version of the oft-filmed Seika Mayama story The 47 Ronin was too big to be confined to ...
7.7
Love and Honor
IMDb: 7.7 2006 121 min
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband’s ...
8.0
Kagemusha
IMDb: 8.0 1980 180 min
When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, in order to protect his clan from appearing weak and vulnerable. But he ...
8.1
Sanjuro
IMDb: 8.1 1962 96 min
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In ...
7
The River Fuefuki
IMDb: 7 1960 117 min
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge ...
6.7
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
IMDb: 6.7 1965 143 min
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan ...
7.2
Taira Clan Saga
IMDb: 7.2 1955 107 min
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But ...
6.4
Return of Daimajin
IMDb: 6.4 1966 79 min
The third and final film of the series, the same statue from the previous two Daimajin movies is located on the top of a mountain rather than on ...
6.7
Daimajin
IMDb: 6.7 1966 84 min
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord. Release: Daimajin (1966) ...
7.7
The Hidden Blade
IMDb: 7.7 2004 132 min
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of ...
7.8
Sword of the Stranger
IMDb: 7.8 2007 103 min
Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The ...
6.6
Hana
IMDb: 6.6 2006 127 min
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn’t an ...
8.1
The Twilight Samurai
IMDb: 8.1 2002 129 min
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei ...
6.2
Return of Daimajin
IMDb: 6.2 1966 87 min
In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur ...