Samurai movies

[aaron]

Ok, Ive seen all of Akira Kurosawa's samurai stuff and also The Last Samurai, any recommendations of smaurai movies to check out?

 

[supzfan]

these are MUST see samurai films:
1) "The Samurai Trilogy"--Mifune as the greatest swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Many great duels with the best saved for last.
2) "Sword Of Doom"--another great one, also with the equally great Mifune in a supporting role. Based on a very popular series. The final fight scene last seven mimutes and the lead character, by now gone mad, kills dozens and dozens and dozens of atackers--I stoppped counting at around 50. Bloody and beautiful and very haunting. Has the memorable line spoken by Mifune, " "The sword is the soul. Study the soul to know the sword. An evil soul is an evil sword."
3)"The Twilght Samurai"--a recent movie (2002) and a great one. Again, very beautifully filmed with a terrific story and compelling characters. The lead actor, Hiroyuki Sanada is great.

 

[aaron]

Thanks man, Ive added them all to my online dvd rental list lol

 

[DOG LIPS]

Six String Samurai.

 

[aaron]

Thanks man

Ok, I just saw Fearless, so...lol, any recommended kung fu, chinese movies? Ive seen the big 3 of Hero, Crouching Tiger and Flying Daggers already

 

[Obi-Ron]

Enter The Dragon

 

[The_Guyver]

Check out the original Lonewolf and Cub movies, there's 6 of them. Pure awesomeness. The series is incomplete though, but they're great films. Ogami Itto is truly frightening!!

 

[November Rain]

ladysnowblood, you'll never look at kill bill the same again....

 

[Obi-Ron]

What we need is an animated Usagi Yojimbo movie.

 

[blind_fury]

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

 

[Rac]

After the Rain aka Ame agaru.

 

[blind_fury]

The Hunted (1995) with Christopher Lambert.

 

[Warhammer]

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

Exactly what I was going to say.

 

[Warhammer]

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

Exactly what I was going to say.

 

[usagigoya]

You have barely scratched the surface of the samurai genre!

Hideo Gosha directed a number of exceptional samurai films, starting with the fantastic "Three Outlaw Samurai" (available on import DVD), "Sword of the Beast" (available from Criterian as part of the Rebel Samurai box set), "Samurai Wolf" parts I and II (available from www.samuraidvd.com), and the clasic "Goyokin" which was originally going to be the last Yojimbo film featuring toshiro Mifune (Media Blasters / Tokyo Shock), as well as a few others.

Masaki Kobayashi directed two samurai films which should not be missed, Even if you only watch two samurai films in your life. "Samurai Rebellion" and "Harakiri" (Seppuku) are both available through Criterian and star Toshiro Mifune in the first one and Tatsuya Nakadai in both.

Kihachi Okamoto directed a decent number of films worth watching, from "Samurai Assassin" (Toshiro Mifune), "The Sword of Doom" (Mifune and Nakadai, unfortunately, part one of a never finished trilogy), "Kill!" (Tatsuya Nakadai, one of my personal favorites, and while based on the same story as Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune's film "Sanjuro", it is a totally differant movie), "Red Lion" (Toshiro Mifune), and last but not least "Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo" (Shintaro Katsu and Mifune).

Hiroshi Inagaki is a director hard to ignore, what with the three part "Samurai" trilogy (starring Toshiro Mifune as Miyamoto Musashi) and "The Ambush" aka "Incident at Blood Pass" (featuring Katsu and Mifune). He also directed "Rise Against the Sword", "Whirlwind", "Chushingura: 47 Samurai", and "Daredevil in the Castle" (all featuring Toshiro Mifune and which are available through either official or unofficial sources on ebay, etc). His "Bandits on the Wind" is currently at the top of my "want to find" list.

Hopefully, this makes the scratch a little bit deeper into a film genre which, during it's "golden age", spanned three decades and saw literally hundreds of films released yearly during some of those years.

Also, check out the books:
"Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook" by Patrick Galloway - Stone Bridge Press, 2005

"The Samurai Film" by Alain Silver - Overlook Press, 2005

Abayo.....

 

[xwolverine2]

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

^
that and
KILL
BILL

VOL. 1 AND 2

kill bill is the greatest samurai movie ever created......

you MUST see it...................kill is love:heart:

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

LOL@Xwolverine2

This is a good thread. I've seen some samurai genre, such as Sword of Doom, the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Twilight Samurai, and of course the Kurosawa films. I bought one called Goyokin but haven't watched it yet. Has anyone seen it?

 

[November Rain]

^
that and
KILL
BILL

VOL. 1 AND 2

kill bill is the greatest samurai movie ever created......

you MUST see it...................kill is love:heart:

how can kill bill be the greatest samurai movie every created when there isn't even a single samurai in it?

 

[Mentok]

Red Sun.

 

[3dman27]

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

i think that film airs on SPIKE tv at 2 pm

 

[3dman27]

also has anyone seen AMERICAN SAMURAI[no i'm not thinking of american NINJA]

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

SWORD. OF. DOOM.

go and buy it and watch it right now.

He is madness.

 

[JTStarkiller]

SWORD. OF. DOOM.

go and buy it and watch it right now.

He is madness.

Love the last shot. Completely insane.

Oh, and The Hidden Blade looks good. Same director as The Twilight Samurai. Don't know if anyone else mentioned it or not.

 

[3dman27]

blind fury

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

how can kill bill be the greatest samurai movie every created when there isn't even a single samurai in it?

Not to mention he acts like it's some sort of small obscure film that no one has seen or heard about. t: