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Kanopy
92
8.6
/396772/
84
/5657/
85
/4042/
4.6
/383477/
100
/103/
97
/6724/
98
/7/
cc age 13+

Seven Samurai (1954)
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
poster
Criterion Channel
91
8.6
/87753/
85
/1829/
84
/1133/
4.7
/191892/
100
/10/
97
/415/
85
/9/

Harakiri (1962)
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.
poster
Criterion Channel
90
8.2
/141034/
80
/2326/
81
/1605/
4.3
/162000/
96
/51/
96
/2271/
93
/17/

Yojimbo (1961)
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
poster
85
7.9
/40424/
77
/737/
78
/707/
4.2
/43692/
89
/27/
92
/710/
84
/15/

Kagemusha (1980)
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.5
/71117/
75
/2507/
73
/1215/
3.9
/54939/
95
/129/
88
/1792/
84
/33/
cc age 18+

13 Assassins (2010)
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
poster
79
7.8
/220089/
78
/5359/
76
/3549/
4.1
/244717/
98
/62/
90
/7405/
84
/18/
cc age 17+

Brazil (1985)
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
77
7.9
/12942/
76
/272/
77
/247/
4.1
/23207/
80
/10/
90
/377/

The Sword of Doom (1966)
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.
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Criterion Channel
79
77
7.7
/9536/
77
/333/
74
/241/
3.8
/19182/
85
/13/
90
/221/

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
7.5
/102538/
73
/2400/
73
/1330/
4.0
/129919/
84
/106/
86
/2130/
68
/31/

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
poster
74
7.8
/498028/
77
/13815/
75
/7271/
3.8
/274948/
65
/216/
83
/21055/
55
/43/
cc age 14+

The Last Samurai (2003)
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
71
7.4
/10148/
73
/249/
72
/198/
3.7
/14772/
88
/3983/

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
69
7.5
/5340/
73
/171/
73
/145/
3.8
/8354/
88
/3090/

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
69
7.5
/6019/
73
/201/
71
/154/
3.7
/9754/
87
/3266/

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
68
7.5
/4978/
73
/153/
73
/128/
3.7
/7531/
88
/3368/

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
67
7.3
/7409/
73
/178/
72
/133/
3.7
/9784/
85
/3486/

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
66
7.2
/6343/
70
/102/
71
/138/
3.6
/6558/
83
/6/
79
/84/

The Lower Depths (1957)
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
66
7.9
/7347/
78
/259/
73
/184/
4.0
/13652/
100
/7/
94
/4/

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
poster
75
63
7.2
/2590/
70
/77/
67
/59/
3.9
/5207/
80
/5/
84
/108/

Duel to the Death (1983)
In 16th century, during the Ming dynasty era, every ten years the greatest swordsman from Japan faces the greatest swordsman from China in a duel to the death for their nation's honor. As a duel approaches, Chinese champion Bo Ching-Wan and Japanese champion Miyamoto uncover a plot to rig the fight.
poster
67
62
6.7
/4229/
67
/222/
71
/130/
3.2
/1860/
69
/251/
6.7
/9542/

Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007)
Colin MacLeod hunts for the man responsible for the death of his love. He chases the immortal Marcus Octavius across centuries as his quest threatens to take over his life and heart. In his quest, he meets a woman who reminds him of his slain beauty. But it's his final battle with Marcus that will decide not only his fate, but also the fate of everyone in the world.
poster
66
60
6.4
/3837/
71
/399/
77
/272/
3.1
/12714/
56
/24/
cc age 6+

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009)
The Mystery Inc. gang takes a trip to Japan and finds themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a treasure hunt, racing against the vengeful Black Samurai and his Ninja warriors to find the legendary Sword of Fate, an ancientblade fabled to possess extraordinary supernaturalpowers.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
53
7.5
/7132/
74
/165/
72
/132/
3.8
/8854/
78
/3/

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
52
7.3
/4641/
74
/158/
71
/121/
3.7
/7250/
62
/6/

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu clan.
poster
Netflix
45
6.2
/177943/
67
/9539/
62
/4012/
2.6
/83387/
16
/88/
48
/2673/
28
/21/
cc age 14+

47 Ronin (2013)
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
poster
73
42
7.5
/2354/
76
/36/
72
/44/
3.6
/916/

Chûshingura (1962)
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
poster
61
32
6.4
/1273/
58
/32/
58
/34/
3.4
/844/
58
/28/

G.I. Samurai (1979)
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
poster
The Roku Channel
41
30
4.5
/1753/
46
/77/
46
/50/
2.8
/7237/
14

Blood Beat (1983)
Sarah and her boyfriend have decided to spend Christmas at his home in rural Wisconsin. However, upon arriving, she begins to feel a strange presence around her, and a mysterious figure garbed in a Samurai outfit begins murdering the townsfolk.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
41
23
4.5
/1525/
45
/42/
40
/39/
2.7
/1023/
21
/1507/

The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
poster
66
16
6.9
/492/
60
/11/
68
/22/
3.4
/259/

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1969)
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
poster
49
16
4.8
/696/
51
/18/
46
/25/
3.1
/258/
39
/23/

Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf (2009)
A blind man seeks revenge against the psychopath who took away his sight and slaughtered his wife and daughter. Eight years after the massacre, the man has returned to the desert town, now a highly trained samurai swordsman ready to seek justice. But he doesn't know there awaits seven assassins hired by his sworn enemy who want the bounty on his head. Set in nowhere, no time, this bloody modern day fable is a new age hybrid action film with a classic samurai essence and a spaghetti western spirit. This is, "Sushi Western!"
poster
51
13
5.1
/624/
58
/16/
52
/15/
46
/12/

Samurai Commando Mission 1549 (2005)
An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.
poster
?
8.5
/32/
10
/1/

Battle with Top-Class Samuri (1980)
In an effort to take advantage of the political chaos during the reign of King Ko-jong, the emporer of Japan sends several warriors to infiltrate Korea. The son of the nation's top martial arts teacher, who has been studying dance and Buddhism, proves that he is a warrior as well as an artist by fighting off the invaders with Taekwondo.
poster
The Roku Channel
?
6.8
/63/
60
/1/
10
/1/

Duffle Bag Boy (2024)
One year after separating from military service, Bruce hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw with all of its riches and glory. His tense relationship with kingpin, Maurice, brings chaos to the empire and results in an all-out war.
poster
?
6.6
/100/
57
/4/
70
/2/

Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny (1972)
The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody adaptation of the manga by Takao Saito. Despite the Shadow Hunters's remarkable skill, this mission is no walk in the park, and in order to survive they must face a relentless army of ninjas and female warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to disrupt the delivery and claim the cannon for themselves.
poster
?
4.8
/92/
25
/2/
40
/2/

Forgotten Warrior (1986)
Steve Parrish is the Forgotten Warrior, a man who refuses to be defeated. Now he's become a creature of the jungle who lives to kill. He has survived the inhuman brutalities of war and prison camps and he finally finds love and peace among some native villagers. However, happiness is only temporary as his compatriots turn against him. He becomes a hunted animal. A man stripped of his pride, his friends, and his country, he is left with only one alternative. Kill or be killed.
poster
?
7.6
/88/
72
/4/
60
/4/

Samurai (2010)
Actor/martial arts champ Mark Dacascos explores the story of Miyamoto Musashi, the most famous Samurai of all time, and trains in the weaponry and wisdom of Japan’s great warriors. Set to the action-packed, battle-scarred backdrop of Japan’s warrior tradition, this new feature-length special takes viewers on an immersive journey through historic Japan in the footsteps of Musashi, Japan’s legendary swordsman and warrior. As Mark learns about ancient Samurai culture, the action is brought vividly to life in a dynamic and innovative way through cutting-edge animation.
poster
63
?
6.4
/447/
55
/6/
67
/9/
3.4
/294/

Village of Eight Gravestones (1977)
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo
poster
61
?
6.7
/206/
56
/6/
62
/6/

Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire (1965)
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, and a missing treasure trove.


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