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1	The Last Samurai (2003) more movies like this directed by Edward Zwick featuring Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Koyuki Edward Zwick returned to the director's chair for the first time since 1998's The Siege with this sweeping period drama set in 19th-century Japan. After centuries of relying on hired samurai for national defense, the Japanese monarchy has decided to do away with the warriors in favor of a more contemporary military. Tom Cruise stars as Nathan ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
2	Ran (1985) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three sons. In his dotage, he falls prey to the false flattery of his treacherous sons (Akira Terao and ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.82!
3	The Hidden Fortress (1958) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Kamatari Fujiwara, Minoru Chiaki, Susumu Fujita Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general Toshiro Mifune, who is in search of a huge cache of gold. Mifune is also desirous of freeing ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
4	Seven Samurai (1954) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Kato, Ko (Isao) Kimura Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film opens with master samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped farmer's child. Impressed by his selflessness and bravery, a group of farmers begs him to defend their terrorized village from bandits. ... see all copies from £7.61! new only from £11.78!
5	Rashomon (1951) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ruined gate in 12th-century Japan. The priest and the woodcutter, each looking stricken, discuss the trial of a notorious bandit for rape and murder. As the retelling of the trial ... see all copies from £7.87! new only from £9.01!
6	Yojimbo (1961) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai, Isuzu Yamada, Seizaburo Kawazu, Daisuke Kato, Hiroshi Tachikawa Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is particularly honorable, but Mifune is hungry and impoverished, so he agrees to work as bodyguard (or Yojimbo) for a silk merchant (Kamatari Fujiwara) against a sake merchant (Takashi Shimura). He then pretends to go to work for the ... see all copies from £3.88! new only from £11.78!
7	Kagemusha (1980) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Kota Yui, Shuji Otake Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980 Akira Kurosawa's reputation outside Japan exceeded his esteem at home. As uncompromising as ever, he found considerable difficulty securing backing for his ambitious projects. Unsure he would be able to film it, the director, an ... see all copies from £1.95! new only from £6.21!
8	Harakiri (1963) more movies like this directed by Masaki Kobayashi featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba, Rentaro Mikuni, Yoshio Inaba This well-regarded Japanese drama follows an aging samurai as he attempts to regain his family's honor. In 17th century Japan, a shift in the country's political structure has thrown the feudal Shogun system into disuse. Impoverished samurai wander the countryside, asking wealthy estate owners if they can commit hara-kiri, a grisly form of suicide ... see all copies from £4.79! new only from £21.03!
9	Gate of Hell (1953) more movies like this directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa featuring Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata, Koreya Senda, Yataro Kurokawa Originally released as Jigokumen, Gate of Hell was one of the most popular Japanese imports of the 1954-55 American film season. Set in 12th-century feudal Japan, the film stars Kazuo Hasegawa as Moritoh, a samurai whose courage in defending his ruler is to be rewarded with anything he desires. He desires the beautiful, aristocratic Lady Kesa ... see all copies from £11.78! new only from £11.78!
10	Legend of the Eight Samurai (1984) more movies like this directed by Kinji Fukasaku featuring Sonny Chiba, Hiroku Yokoshimaru As might be gathered from its title, The Legend of the Eight Samurai is set in feudal Japan. Princess Hiroku Yokoshimaru's family is wiped out, along with her bodyguards. All that stands between the princess and certain death is an inexperienced young samurai played by martial-arts expert Sonny Chiba. Armed with little more than determination, ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.10!
11 view cover	Samurai Reincarnation (1981) more movies like this directed by Kinji Fukasaku In this Japanese fantasy, the wrathful ghost of a shogunate warrior emerges from a thunderstorm to exact revenge on those behind the terrible 1638 Shimbara Revolt in which 18,000 rioters were slaughtered. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
12 view cover	Sanjuro (1962) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or vice-versa, this kinetic drama by acclaimed Akira Kurosawa features the hero Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), one of many samurai whose once traditional positions were fast disappearing. In this tale of false perceptions and truth ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.13!
13 view cover	Taboo (2000) more movies like this directed by Nagisa Oshima featuring Beat Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba After a 13-year absence, partially due to a life-threatening stroke, master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima returns to the silver screen with this revisionist samurai epic. From his first major film, Cruel Story of Youth to his most notorious work Ai no Korrida, Oshima has coupled the political and the sexual in a manner that transgresses all social norms ... see all copies from £3.43! new only from £7.62!
14 view cover	The Sword of Doom (1967) more movies like this directed by Kihachi Okamoto featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Ichiro Nakaya In this epic Japanese samurai adventure, a bloodthirsty young fighter (Tatsuya Nakadai) kills a man in competition and is pursued by the slain warrior's brother. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide see all copies from £3.77! new only from £12.47!
15 view cover	Samurai 3: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) more movies like this directed by Hiroshi Inagaki featuring Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiko Saga, Mariko Okada Samurai 3: Duel At Ganryu Island is the final movie in director Hiroshi Inagacki's trilogy following a samurai played by Toshiro Mifune. In this film, Mifune is challenged to a duel by his arch-rival (Koji Tsuruta). Before he fights the duel, Mifune is tested by a number of bandits and has to cope with the affections of two different women. ... see all copies from £2.81! new only from £3.47!
16 view cover	Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (1955) more movies like this directed by Hiroshi Inagaki featuring Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Akihiko Hirata, Rentaro Mikuni, Daisuke Kato, Kuroemon Onoe, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada Musashi Miyamoto was the first entry in Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Ingaki's Samurai trilogy. Toshiro Mifune is Takezo, a good-for-nothing from the farming village of Miyamoto, who dreams of becoming a samurai in 17th century Japan. Over the course of the first part, Takezo evolves from being a man filled with rage and violence who is looked upon ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £8.11!
17 view cover	Shogun Assassin 3: Slashing Blades of Carnage (1972) more movies like this directed by Buichi Saito As the Lone Wolf prepares to dispense with an alluring female assassin who sports an elaborate full-body tattoo, his sense of honor clashes with his hunger for justice in this action epic adapted from the Lone Wolf and Cub film series. Now faced with the challenge of fulfilling his mission as the dreaded Yagyu Retsudo attempts to arrange his ... see all copies from £7.88! new only from £9.39!
18 view cover	Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) more movies like this directed by Hiroshi Inagaki featuring Toshiro Mifune Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple follows the adventures of the 17th-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (Toshiro Mifune), as he wanders through feudal Japan learning the ways of a samurai warrior. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide see all copies from £5.94! new only from £13.76!
19 view cover	Zatoichi vs. Yojimbo (1970) more movies like this directed by Kihachi Okamoto featuring Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune In Zatoichi vs. Yojimbo, one of many Japanese samurai films starring the blind swordsman Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu), he has to battle Yojimbo (Toshiro Mifune), the title character from Akira Kurosawa's famous film. At the beginning of the film, Zatoichi is planning on retiring, yet his village is besieged by outlaws; eventually he fights, then ... see all copies from £2.97! new only from £8.87!
20 view cover	Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) more movies like this directed by Kenji Misumi The first in a series of six films based on the long-running manga concerns Ogami Itto (Tomisaburo Wakayama), a shogun's executioner who is framed by the Yagyu clan and forced into exile as a wandering assassin for hire. After the killing of his wife by the Yagyus, Ogami gives his young son Daigoro the choice between instant death (a ball) and the ... see all copies from £4.09! new only from £13.95!
21 view cover	Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2000) more movies like this directed by Sogo Ishii featuring Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Daisuke Ryu, Jun Kunimura Maverick Japanese director Sogo Ishii takes an unexpectedly conventional approach in this screen adaptation of a well-known Japanese folk legend of the 12th century. In the long-standing battle of the Genji and Heiki clans, the Heiki have emerged triumphant, but they find they have a new adversary in Shanao (Tadanobu Asano), a demon who each night ... see all copies from £9.70! new only from £15.23!
22 view cover	The Princess Blade (2001) more movies like this directed by Shinsuke Sato featuring Hideaki Ito, Yumiko Shaku, Shiro Sano, Yoichi Namata, Kyusaka Shimada Based on a manga series, this science fiction-adventure is set in a near future in which Japan is governed by a monarchy who use a highly trained band of samurai-style assassins known as the House of Takemikazuchi to suppress a fierce band of rebels. Yuki (Yumiko Shaku), a lethal young female member of the group, discovers that her mother was ... see all copies from £3.66! new only from £11.08!
23 view cover	Chushingura (1962) more movies like this directed by Hiroshi Inagaki featuring Koshiro Matsumoto, Yuzo Kayama, Chusha Ichikawa, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa This sweeping historical epic has sometimes been labelled the Gone with the Wind of Japan; at any rate, it's almost the same length as Gone (the film was originally released in two parts). Chusha Ichikawa plays a powerful and ruthless feudal lord who battles virtuous young noble Yuzo Kayama. Ichikawa is temporarily victorious when he tricks Kayama ... see all copies from £5.15! new only from £15.93!
24 view cover	Wrath of the Ninja: The Yotoden Movie (1989) more movies like this directed by Osamu Yamazaki A youthful female ninja is aided by two swordsmen, who fight with her to help save her homeland. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide see all copies from £2.77! new only from £15.97!
25 view cover	Ronin-Gai (1990) more movies like this directed by Kazuo Kuroki featuring Kanako Higuchi, Kunie Tanaka, Renji Ishibashi, Shintaro Katsu, Yoshio Harada Kazuo Kuroki's Ronin-Gai transpires during the final years of the time when samurais figured prominently in Japanese society. The title town is filled with prostitutes and samurai who have been disgraced. The hedonistic warriors are presented with the possibility of redemption when the women of the town are threatened. Perry Seibert, All Movie ... see all copies from £11.08! new only from £15.73!

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