Genre: Samurai

Samurai stories follow the warrior’s code — honor, duty, and the blade, set in a Japan where loyalty can cost everything.

  • Harakiri (1962) Cover

    Harakiri (1962)

    Kobayashi's 1962 anti-samurai film. A ronin requests ritual suicide at a clan's gate. The most ruthless dismantling of bushido ever committed to film.
    Foreign Movies • Samurai
    May 17, '26
  • 13 Assassins (2010) Cover

    13 Assassins (2010)

    Takashi Miike's 2010 samurai siege film. Forty-five minute climax. Pairs with Seven Samurai as the modern remake the genre needed.
    Foreign Movies • Samurai
    May 17, '26
  • Seven Samurai (1954) Cover

    Seven Samurai (1954)

    Kurosawa's 1954 samurai epic. Three hours twenty-seven minutes. The film every assembled-team movie since 1960 has copied.
    Action • Samurai
    May 17, '26
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