10 Best Samurai Movies (That Aren't Directed by Akira Kurosawa or Masaki Kobayashi)

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• youngalfred@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What about that one with Tom Cruise?

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  • Vodica@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This movie is joke. Absolute western garbage.

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• best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They forgot Zatoichi by Kitano: www.imdb.com/title/tt0363226/

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  • Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for mentioning it!

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• Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where’s any of the Hawk And Chick movies?

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• VubDapple@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not quite a samurai movie, but Sancho The Bailiff is a period piece about slavery in feudal Japan that is both gorgeous and heartbreaking. I don’t think I’d watch it a second time because it’s so painful but what a great film!

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If we’re talking jidaigeki (as they include Lady Snowblood) then also up for consideration:

  • Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (2003)
  • Kwaidan (1964)
  • Kuroneko (1968)
  • Onibaba (1964)
  • Lone Wolf and Cub (1972-1974)
  • The Hidden Blade (2004)
  • The Twilight Samurai (2002)
  • When the Last Sword is Drawn (2002)
  • 13 Assassins (2010)
  • Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
  • Shogun’s Samurai (1978)
  • Ugetsu (1953)
  • A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)
  • Goyokin (1969)
  • Irezumi (1966)
  • A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) / Floating Weeds (1959)
  • Samurai Banners (1969)
  • Oniwaban (1978)
  • Unforgiven (2013) - not that one but a samurai remake

  See also my list: jidaigeki

  Not a lot survives from before WW2, here’s the earliest I’m aware of: Jiraiya the Hero (1921)

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d not really thought of Ozu as director of samurai movies.

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    • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As they included Lady Snowblood (which isn’t really a samurai film) I took it as an excuse to broaden the scope to jidaigeki in general.

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• Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A lot of these films can be found on the good ol’ Internet Archive:

  Samurai I

  Samurai II

  Samurai III

  Gate Of Hell

  The Sword of Doom

  Three Outlaw Samurai

  Sword Of The Beast

  Kill!

  Lady Snowblood

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