Recommend a Samurai Themed Film!

**Airetal** · February 25th, 2004, 12:11 AM

Please, im addicted to samurai/ninja films with high qulaity fighting and action. Mainly good sword fights. These are films Ive seen and loved so far, anyone got more to recommend?

Seven Samurai
Last Samurai
Ran
Versu
Kill Bill
Samurai X

Thanks

**ChenZan** · February 25th, 2004, 02:14 AM

Im this may not be samurai/ninja film but i enjoyd Hero with Jet Li a lot. Swordfights and what not.
have you seen the Onimusha 3 game intro. id say thats one of the best choreographed CG intros ever. Oh theres sword fighting in it just so you know.

**Payback** · February 25th, 2004, 09:39 AM

Akira Kurosawa has made alot of movies on the subject (Seven Samurai, Ran)

Yojimbo

Kagemusha

Tsubaki Sanjûrô

You can also search on imdb.com for Toshiro Mifune who was an actor in a couple of Kurosawas movies. He's probably done a shitload of samurai-movies.

**jwo** · February 25th, 2004, 09:57 AM

lone wolf and cub baby cart shogun assassin flicks.

**Diego** · February 25th, 2004, 02:02 PM

Musa is amazing....the best i've ever seen
-D

**Nimrod** · February 25th, 2004, 08:46 PM

One of my favorite fights in a Kurosawa movie is in Hidden Fortress, when Toshiro Mifune and the bad guy fight with polearms.

**Airetal** · February 26th, 2004, 12:06 PM

Just saw Musa and Hero - so good

ill check those out but if u can think of anymore by all means post it!

**Elwell** · February 26th, 2004, 12:26 PM

You can't go wrong with Kurosawa and/or Mifune.
If you liked Ran, check out Throne of Blood, Kurosowa's take on Macbeth.

**epiphany** · February 26th, 2004, 09:26 PM

zatoichi..both the series and the one by Takeshi Kitano......
check out kungfu cinema for more

musa aint exactly samurai tho cause its korean

**Airetal** · February 27th, 2004, 02:54 AM

Samurai or ancient sword fighting movies...

Im thinking about a samurai/martial arts dvd review site:

http://ult-enterprise.com/portfolio/...ns/samurai.jpg

**Vimmzy** · February 28th, 2004, 07:03 PM

there is a cool one i saw some time back..
think it was called Azumi..

dunno if it is released as dvd or vhs in USA but idled it and then dled a sub for it. worked well..

and the movie was kickass ninjastyle.. maybe a little exagerated some times but otherwise it rocked.

**SicFrost** · February 28th, 2004, 07:13 PM

to me Yojimbo is better then seven samurai, even though its the same people and director...but someone already said that, so see THAT and Sanjuro, which is part two of Yojimbo saga...

NInja Scroll is a samurai classic, if you havent seen this anime you havent seen shit, and i mean the movie not the series

Shogun, well this movie is so fucking hard to come by, if you do its a 20 part series that pretty much breaks down fudal Japan in american eyes

_B0R1S

**DanSTC** · March 2nd, 2004, 04:10 AM

If you like old-skool wuxia kung-fu cheesiness, I reccommend "Duel to the Death" - a film featuring a Chinese Swordsman and Japanese Samurai, inevitably mortal enemies who temporarily ally with one another to fight against a band of ninja who are kidnapping and executing noble families. The best way I can describe this film is that it's a bit like Ninja Scroll, only in live action. Cheesy, but highly entertaining and one of the more inventive and creative wuxia flicks out there. The story is actually pretty compelling, too.

IMDB info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084924/

I'm pretty sure you can find it on Amazon, too.