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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Shichinin no samurai
1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check -
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Samurai
1965 — a.k.a. Samurai Assassin, in 1 top list Check -
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Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
1958 — a.k.a. The Hidden Fortress, in 9 top lists Check -
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Kiba Ôkaminosuke
1966 — a.k.a. Samurai Wolf I, in 2 top lists Check -
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Jûsan-nin no shikaku
1963 — a.k.a. 13 Assassins, in 1 top list Check -
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Chiyari Fuji
1955 — a.k.a. Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, in 4 top lists Check -
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Jûichinin no samurai
1967 — a.k.a. Eleven Samurai, in 0 top lists Check -
27 +1
Goyôkin
1969 — a.k.a. Goyokin, in 3 top lists Check -
28 -1
Jûsan-nin no shikaku
2010 — a.k.a. 13 Assassins, in 1 top list Check -
34 -1
Dojo yaburi
1964 — a.k.a. Samurai from Nowhere, in 0 top lists Check -
36 -1
Sengoku burai
1952 — a.k.a. Sword for Hire, in 0 top lists Check -
39 -1
Kiba Ôkaminosuke: jigoku giri
1967 — a.k.a. Samurai Wolf II, in 1 top list Check -
45 -1
Rônin-gai
1957 — a.k.a. Street of Ronin, in 0 top lists Check -
50 -1
Fûrin kazan
1969 — a.k.a. Under the Banner of Samurai, in 1 top list Check -
52 -1
Zatôichi chikemuri kaidô
1967 — a.k.a. Zatoichi Challenged, in 2 top lists Check -
55 -1
Shinsengumi
1969 — a.k.a. Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor, in 1 top list Check -
60 -1
Yagyû ichizoku no inbô
1978 — a.k.a. The Shogun's Samurai, in 1 top list Check -
70 -1
Araki Mataemon: Kettô kagiya no tsuji
1952 — a.k.a. Vendetta of a Samurai, 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 -
76 -1
Tange Sazen: Hien iaigiri
1966 — a.k.a. The Secret of the Urn, in 1 top list Check -
77 -1
Orochi
1925, in 0 top lists Check -
90 -1
Abare Gôemon
1966 — a.k.a. Rise Against the Sword, in 1 top list Check -
93 -1
Akô-jô danzetsu
1978 — a.k.a. The Fall of Ako Castle, in 1 top list Check -
95 -1
Yami no karyudo
1979 — a.k.a. Hunter in the Dark, in 1 top list Check -
98 -1
Ten to Chi to
1990 — a.k.a. Heaven and Earth, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on Mar 28, 2024 by monty;