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Samurai

The 47 Ronin ( aka Chushingura ) (1962)

7.6/10
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Yuzo Kayama, Koshiro Matsumoto, Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yosuke Natsuki,...

One of the most retold stories in Japanese cinema is this historical samurai saga set at the turn of the 18th century, in which 47 loyal ronin seek ve... Read more

Sanjuro (1962)

8.2/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama

The hero of Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' returns to help a group of very earnest, very green, very young samurai get their clan rid of corruption. As in 'Yoji... Read more

Daredevil in the Castle (1961)

6.9/10
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Yuriko Hoshi, Yoshiko Kuga, Isuzu Yamada, Yosuke N...

Toshiro Mifune plays Mohei, a lone samurai wandering in despair after his family is wiped out. He arrives in Osaka and is taken in by the Toyotomi cl... Read more

Yojimbo (1961)

8.3/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Eijiro Tono, Seizaburo Kawazu, Toshiro Mifune

Kurosawa's first full-length comedy. Toshiro Mifune is the unemployed samurai warrior who comes to a small village torn apart by two warring factions... Read more

Samurai Saga (1959)

7.1/10
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada, Keiko Awaji, Seizaburo Kawazu

Cyrano de Bergerac is given the Japanese Samurai treatment with the legendary Toshiro Mifune as the large-nosed warrior with a poet's heart. He is ut... Read more

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

8.1/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki

Kurosawa takes the conventional Japanese period film and combines it with fairytale elements, the result is an energetic and brilliant farce. Toshiro... Read more

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)

7.7/10
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsurata, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Michiko Saga, Takas...

Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's "Gone with the Wind". This sweeping saga of the legenda... Read more

Seven Samurai (Blu-Ray) (1954)

8.7/10
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Kato, Seiji Miyaguchi, Mi...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six... Read more

Seven Samurai (1954)

8.7/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Yoshio Inaba, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura

One of the most beloved movie epics of all time, Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhab... Read more