Samurai Movies - please recommend your fav

muddyfunster2003 · (#1 (**permalink**))

These are my favourite genre of Japanese movies. Favs are Seven Samurai and Hidden Fortress (story was used by George Lucas as a tempalte in Star Wars).

I have seen a few of the recent movies like When the Last Sword is Drawn, Hidden Blade but I was disappointed by the lack of action. A lot of Japanese Samurai movies feature a lot of sitting around and talking.

Can anyone recommend a good action Samurai movie I could watch?

Many thanks.

Haggis · (#2 (**permalink**))

Lone Wolf and Cub - lots of blood
Samurai Fiction - lots of comedy
Zatoichi - try the recent Takeshi Kitano version
and if you're not bothered about Samurai but just want lots of sword action try Versus.

Wyverian · (#3 (**permalink**))

Both of the Azumi movies feature a lot of action, have some samurai, a few ninjas, as well as assassins.

MMM · (#4 (**permalink**))

You already know about Akira Kurosawa...and Seven Samurai is definately my favorite of his.

Tingle · (#5 (**permalink**))

Ran & Kagemusha. I love the long drawn out drama, culture and intrigue of these two. Can anyone recommend anything similar.

Kenpachi11 · (#6 (**permalink**))

The Zatochi movies are really good movies!

Tingle · (#7 (**permalink**))

Are zatoichi movies new releases or old ones. I do prefer the older movies.

Kenpachi11 · (#8 (**permalink**))

There old ones

Tingle · (#9 (**permalink**))

Great. Gonna try and track it down. Cheers for the info. Where u from? Can you recommend any others.

Kenpachi11 · (#10 (**permalink**))

Im from the united states! and over here the zatochi movies sometimes come on saturday mornings on the IFC channel

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