They forgot Zatoichi by Kitano: www.imdb.com/title/tt0363226/
10 Best Samurai Movies (That Aren't Directed by Akira Kurosawa or Masaki Kobayashi)
Submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to movies@lemm.ee
https://www.cbr.com/best-samurai-movies-not-directed-by-kurosawa-kobayashi/
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best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Blaze@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Thanks for mentioning it!
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Where’s any of the Hawk And Chick movies?
VubDapple@lemmy.world 5 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!
Emperor@feddit.uk 5 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)
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 months ago
I’d not really thought of Ozu as director of samurai movies.
Emperor@feddit.uk 5 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.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 months ago
A lot of these films can be found on the good ol’ Internet Archive:
youngalfred@lemm.ee 5 months ago
What about that one with Tom Cruise?
Vodica@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This movie is joke. Absolute western garbage.