Monty's Top Samurai Movies
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The list before your is the fruit of many years of reading about and watching samurai cinema. Moreover, as my main focus is on jidai-geki (i.e. Japanese period films set before 1868), and more specifically chanbara or sword fighting films, no crazy robot samurai anime will ever find its way here. The list will be expanded as I come across new goodies. All the titles in the list are available with English subs. Apart from the first ten titles, this list is unranked.
Hiroshi Inagaki's Miyamoto Musashi trilogy is not included here as I find Tomu Uchida's six part treatment of the same story vastly superior. In case anyone misses the Zatoichi films here, it's because they fall loosely into the genre of ninkyo-eiga. The one film in this great series I have included is that in which Zatoichi has this epic showdown against a samurai.
For discussion, reviews and even more viewing suggestions, check out the samurai film challenge thread here: http://s15.zetaboards.com/iCheckMovies/topic/7264539/1/
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Cette liste est le résultat de plusieurs années de lecture et de visionnage de films de samouraïs. Mon intention ayant été de me focaliser sur les films de chanbara classiques, vous n'y trouverez ici jamais aucun anime de robot fou samouraï. Si la trilogie sur Miyamoto Musashi de Hiroshi Inagaki ne figure pas dans la liste, c'est qu'il me semble que la version en six parties de Tomu Uchida lui est immensément supérieure.Vous n'y trouverez pas plus les films sur Zatoichi, la série correspondant plutôt au sous-genre ninkyo-eiga (littéralement "film de chevalerie"); le seul de ces films figurant dans la liste concerne celui où Zatoichi affronte un samouraï dans un duel mémorable.
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Kono kubi ichimangoku
1963 — a.k.a. The Retaliation of Gonza, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sekigahara
2017, in 0 top lists -
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Zanjin zanbaken
1929, in 0 top lists Check -
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Zan
2018 — a.k.a. Killing, in 0 top lists -
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Chichibu Suikoden Hissatsuken
1965, in 0 top lists Check -
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Kojiro tsubamegaeshi
1961 — a.k.a. Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut, in 0 top lists Check -
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Gyakuryû
1924, in 0 top lists Check -
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Chô kôsoku! Sankin kôtai
2014 — a.k.a. Samurai Hustle, in 0 top lists Check -
111 -1
Chûkon giretsu - Jitsuroku Chûshingura
1928, in 0 top lists Check -
110 -1
Yagyu bugeicho: Jubei Ansatsu-ken
1964, in 0 top lists Check -
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Shundô
2013 — a.k.a. Bushido, in 0 top lists Check -
108 -1
Shinken shobu
1971 — a.k.a. Death Match, in 0 top lists Check -
107 -1
Miyamoto Musashi: Ganryû-jima no kettô
1965 — a.k.a. Miyamoto Musashi: Musashi vs Kojiro, in 0 top lists Check -
106 -1
Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô
1964 — a.k.a. Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijoji, in 0 top lists Check -
105 -1
Miyamoto Musashi: Nitôryû kaigen
1963 — a.k.a. Two-Sword Fencing Is Born, in 0 top lists Check -
104 -1
Miyamoto Musashi: Hannyazaka no kettô
1962 — a.k.a. Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights, in 0 top lists Check -
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Miyamoto Musashi
1961 — a.k.a. Zen and Sword, in 0 top lists Check -
102 -1
Knightly Advice
1962, in 0 top lists Check -
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Kurama Tengu
1928, in 0 top lists Check -
100 -1
Ako roshi
1961, in 0 top lists Check -
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Miyamoto Musashi
1973, in 0 top lists Check -
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Ten to Chi to
1990 — a.k.a. Heaven and Earth, in 1 top list Check -
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Abe ichizoku
1995 — a.k.a. The Abe Clan, in 0 top lists Check -
96 -1
Nitôryû kaigen
1943, in 0 top lists Check -
95 -1
Yami no karyudo
1979 — a.k.a. Hunter in the Dark, in 1 top list Check -
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Mondonosuke Sanban Shobu
1965, in 0 top lists Check -
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Akô-jô danzetsu
1978 — a.k.a. The Fall of Ako Castle, in 1 top list Check -
92 -1
Oedo go-nin otoko
1951 — a.k.a. Five Men of Edo, in 0 top lists Check -
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Fuunji Oda Nobunaga
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
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Abare Gôemon
1966 — a.k.a. Rise Against the Sword, in 1 top list Check -
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Tengu-tô
1969, in 1 top list Check -
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Rônin-gai
1990, in 1 top list Check -
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Ogawa no hotori
2011 — a.k.a. At River's Edge, in 0 top lists Check -
86 -1
Nemuri Kyoshiro 10: Onna jigoku
1968 — a.k.a. A Ronin Called Nemuri, in 0 top lists Check -
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Nemuri Kyoshiro 7: Tajo-ken
1966 — a.k.a. Sleepy Eyes of Death: The Mask of the Princess, in 0 top lists Check -
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Doku-ganryu Masamune
1959 — a.k.a. Hawk of the North, in 0 top lists Check -
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Yari no gonza
1986 — a.k.a. Gonza the Spearman, in 0 top lists Check -
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Shinsengumi shimatsuki
1963, in 1 top list Check -
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Sôzenji baba
1928, in 0 top lists Check -
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Moeyo-ken
1966 — a.k.a. The Blazing Sword, in 0 top lists Check -
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Poruno jidaigeki: Bôhachi bushidô
1973, in 0 top lists Check -
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Hangyakuji
1961 — a.k.a. Conspirator, in 1 top list Check -
77 -1
Orochi
1925, in 0 top lists Check -
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Tange Sazen: Hien iaigiri
1966 — a.k.a. The Secret of the Urn, in 1 top list Check -
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Okita Sôji
1974, in 0 top lists Check -
74 -1
Goyôkiba
1972 — a.k.a. Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice, in 1 top list Check -
73 -1
Traitors of the Blue Castle
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
72 -1
Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi
1945 — a.k.a. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail, in 1 top list Check -
71 -1
Dokuro
1927, in 0 top lists Check -
70 -1
Araki Mataemon: Kettô kagiya no tsuji
1952 — a.k.a. Vendetta of a Samurai, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Mar 28, 2024 by monty;