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Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
East meets West in this hip-hop infused Samurai-gangster story in which a professional killer goes by the name of Ghost Dog and who lives by the age-old code of the Samurai. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he must find a way to defend himself without breaking the code of the Samurai.
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The story of a sixteenth century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
7) Kagemusha
Series
Criterion collection volume 267
Publisher
Criterion
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
In 16th century feudal Japan, a thief is saved from execution to train as a double for one of the warlords, Shingen. Three warlords, Shingen,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a "proper" samurai on its ear.
Series
Criterion collection volume 16
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©1998.
Language
日本語
Description
In this third and last installment of the Samurai trilogy, the main character continues his quest for enlightenment, but turns his back on the world in disillusionment. Forced to fight again, he eventually comes face to face with his arch rival and long time enemy in a final showdown. This release includes the original theatrical trailer.
12) Ran
Series
Criterion collection volume 316
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2005.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
日本語
Description
This fourth film from Akira Kurosawa derives from Noh and Kabuki plays, depicting a famous twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a small group of samurai cross enemy territory disguised as monks and must persuade border guards to let them through.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
日本語
Description
In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness. Includes theatrical trailer.
16) Samurai assassin
Series
Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
日本語
Description
A group of men have assembled at the Sakurada Gates of the Edo Castle to carry out an assassination of a Shogunate elder. One of those men is Niiro Tsuruchiyo, who has joined the conspiracy in the hopes that taking Elder Ii's head will win him enough renown that one of the great Samurai houses will offer him a position.
17) 47 Ronin
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kai is an outcast who joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. They embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
日本語
Description
Zatoichi kills a man who owes the yakuza boss a gambling debt, just before his sister comes to pay off the debt. What the yakuza really wanted was the man's sister and he tries to take her although the debt's been paid. Zatoichi decides he needs to protect the man's sister and her honor.
20) Yōjimbō
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage.
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