What is your favorite Samurai movie?
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The Magnificent Seven
Harakiri
seconded, it's a perfect movie with possibly the best storytelling ever.
Thirded. One of my favorite movies. Have rewatched it so much I lost count.
Fourthed and it isn't close.
Although it isn't mentioned so much these days, Sancho the Bailiff is one of the most overrated films I've seen
>Sancho
I don't remember there being any samurai in that film.
fifthed - it's absolutely soul crunching and the cinematography is jaw-dropping
This, it's not even a contest. It's amazing how that director has done nothing but average movies before and after this one, it's like he had a sudden stroke of genius just for this one film.
>It's amazing how that director has done nothing but average movies before and after this one, it's like he had a sudden stroke of genius just for this one film.
Why do people always say this? He directed Kwaidan and Samurai Rebellion
Nah. All his other movies are filled with excessive melodrama that even the japanese audience at the time didn't like. They're not bad movies, but they're not masterpieces like Harakiri.
Kwaidan and The Human Condition are masterpieces.
Of course nips hated him for shitting on muh bushido and imperialism. That's what made these films stand out.
>Of course nips hated him for shitting on muh bushido and imperialism.
Japanese society at the time LOVED to shit on samurai, bushido and imperial Japan, what the frick are you talking about?
I'm talking about the fact that these films were controversial because of those aspects. The Human Condition was almost cancelled by the studio for being too critical of the nip army. It had only been a decade since the war ended.
The frick? Kobayashi made numerous excellent films.
He made Kwaidan, one of the most beautiful movies in history
God damn. Gonna have to watch that
>The Human Condition
>Kwaidan
>Samurai Rebellion
Sixthet, one of my fav films of all time. Three Outlaw Samurai is great also.
Seventhed. Pretty much a perfect film.
literally opened the thread to say this exact same post
Yep.
incredible movie
probably the most underrated Kurosawa
a masterpiece
Have to see this again. I remember being enthralled after the waiting for it to pay off. The strangest culture I had seen up until that point
After the Rain
comfy flick
Ronin-gai
Ran
Awesome kino. As in awe-inspiring.
only good film, rest mentioned are shit
nice try dumb Black person
I watched it for the first time recently and it was actually better than I expected.
it couldn't ve been made without the cruise
literally role made for him
Only based post itt
Frick anti-americans itt
what about Samurai Cop?
Funny because this is really a hommage to french Le Samourai and not any japslop
Kozure Ōkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru. Mostly because I grew up without TV and somehow managed to see a copy on VHS at a friend’s house one day when I was about 12. It blew my mind.
Yasuke
You laugh, but…
They're not wrong but they would all be slaves
>There was 1 (one) black dude recorded as being in feudal Japan
>Therefore all western media about feudal Japan must have black people in it
No.
Meanwhile, an obscure favourite of mine, pic related.
what a great title
zi PANG
It’s where we get ‘Japan’ from. It’s the Chinese name for Nihon.
This is an insane movie, the main character has a retinue of weirdos including cinema’s least convincing dudes wearing a rubber baby elephant suit, and a caddy who carries a golf bag full of different swords to pick from depending on the enemies he faces.
Whats a tar bawd?
>europeans in the 16th century schlepped Black person slaves around with them wherever they went
are you moronic?
Holy frick you’re a dumbass
Samurai are just Black person thugs hired by rich lords. They just got away with it because they look cool.
I was blown away by Yojimbo, made me realize cinematography is a dead art nowadays, you just don't get some of those shots and camera movements on modern movies.
People are making products now, not art.
But now with AI we'll be able to make pure kino without a bunch of israelites gatekeeping the industry
Kurosawa was a kino autist like that.
>In his movie Red Beard, Kurosawa had the hospital set fully stocked with medical supplies -- even the drawers and cupboards, which, despite never being opened on camera or even mentioned by the characters, were nonetheless expensively, thoroughly, authentically stocked with pills.
>Once dyed an entire town's water supply black just so the rain would look better on camera
Shogun Assassin
Weak. I love Lone wolf and Cub but Shogun Assassin is like the garbage tier tv equivalent.
7
What's stopping you from dressing like this?
Zhenposter never finished this movie because evidently "I WANT ALL OF SHINANO, NO I WILL STOP YOU FROM TAKING SHINANO" is hard to understand.
Ran was fun, Kagemusha was too
I'm sorry for being mentally ill and easily confused...
I wanted to like this but it felt like no one was paying attention to make it sure it made sense. The last couple episodes were garbage. And the fights all had the wrong progression to them. Like, typically your hero gets more and more beat up and barely wins at the end. But she'd take what would have been a mortal wound at the beginning of a fight and then kill all the bad guys.
Not to mention that a blue eyed euro and a purebred native jap can’t have a blue eyed child. Her mother would have had to have been part white to carry recessive genes for blue eyes.
Her ability to carry three times her own body weight while dangling one armed and badly wounded pushed the show into Mary Sue overdrive. The animation was nice but the moronation was annoying.
Thats easy
Ran is kino
I saw 7 samurai, Harakiri, Ran and Yojimbo wich I all liked.
Harakiri was probably my favorite for how it unveiiled and executed its rvenge story, but I also liked Yojimbo for its lighter tone.
(and I saw last Samurai and the shogun wich are good but I'll set that appart.)
I'll probably continue with Sanjuro, any recomendation for what to watch next?
Sure Death 4 Revenge (Hissatsu 4)
Hissatsu III
Hissatsu Shigotonin (TV series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYqgGAzxdUU
I like sanjuro it makes me laugh
13 Assassins
Star Wars
Red Peony Gambler
Hissatsu Shiokinin
Sanjuro.
Samurai Reincarnation
Not my favorite, but Sword of Desperation is nice if you manage a slower pace with story.
Ryotaro Sugi
whats that one movie where theres a dude laying down on a tatami mat and another that leaves and room and closes the door behind him. They then grab their swords for a few seconds contemplating whether or not they should fight before the guy walks away.
Kagemusha
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Shogun's Samurai
Since Hara-Kiri has already been mentioned, I'd like to bring up a film called "Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji." It's another film about the injustices of the feudal system and how the lower-classes go unappreciated.
It starts out as a comedic road movie, but then takes a tragic turn in the final act. It's one of the best Samurai movies I've ever seen, on par with Hara-Kiri or Sansho the Bailiff.
I was surprised at how funny Yojimbo was
Call me a pleb with common taste but I love Yojimbo. It's the archetypal samurai movie for a reason.
Nah Yojimbo is timeless.
The Bruce Willis remake set on the prohibition era border town was pretty good too, if forgotten.
This thread reminds me, I still need to complete Nioh 2.
Yagyu Conspiracy (TV series)
I love Seven Samurai, mostly for the personality all the actors managed to throw into it. You'd never get that kind of chemistry if you'd tried. I wish the film and audio quality wasn't so bad.
Shadow Warriors (TV series)
Shadow Warriors Season 1
Shadow Warriors Season 2
Shadow Warriors Season 3
Shadow Warriors Season 4
Shadow Warriors Season 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfRW1l-B88o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkmKObc_gag
Clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOyLRk3UEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldlLmS4B1CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5x_ZnMosO0&list=PLmot1iT1sB0tKBWstUka75DhKgcjzhbGJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH87WF6eS0U&list=PLgG0KKAi3UzVKo9SwbvSqa-Cvp_z7C740&index=12
There was a 2013 samurai remake of Unforgiven with Ken Watanabe as Clint Eastwood's character. It's pretty serviceable while still being its own movie. The final showdown is great.
Lone Wolf & Cub (TV series)
I inherently hate this serious without even watching it because this show is what ended the films. Tomisaburo Wakayama said either they make the tv show, or he stops acting in the movies since he is the only Ogami Itto. Plus the tv show looks ugly and cheap.
I don't consider them Samurai movies but the Zatoichi series is easily my favorite Feudal Japan movies. Samurai movies I would say Lone Wolf and Cub.
Yabure Bugyo (TV series)
Kinnosuke Yorozuya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-tB0l-Z5XY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCZ5Z0Dkw0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX85N6M7msk
Not big on chambara so I decided on Sword of Doom. Twilight Samurai is a fine latter day effort.
Kogarashi Monjiro (TV series) clips
so the samurai lords would rather actually use bow and arrow on horseback rather than the sword?
Anything by the japs themselves about the boshin war?? I only know that its about feudal samural/lords getting BTFO by the Imperial side using (more) modern weapons so if that's incorrect (or not) I'd like to know more
My favorite so far is Yojimbo, but I've got to watch more Kurosawa to really know (also haven't seen Harakiri, but I'm pretty interested in it after this thread).
13 Assassins is a masterpiece. Might honestly be Miike's best film
>13 Assassins
A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
RIght up my alley thanks for the recommendation.
You won't be disappointed. There's a 45 minute long battle scene which hasn't been matched by any movie that came after it.
Toei Jidaigeki Channel (Samurai TV series)
https://www.youtube.com/@toei_jidaigeki/videos
Awaken
i 'member watching this flick 20ish years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Commando:_Mission_1549
Simple
The Fall of Ako Castle
Awesome choice, I saw it a few months ago with the Sonny Chiba Vol. 2 collection. Didn't know it was about he 47 Ronin until over an hour in.
Basic answer but Seven Samurai...
I love how the peasants are just pathetic herd animals in it, and yet they're pure.
>and yet they're pure.
But they're not and that's a plot point you frick.
Well, they are pure, in the way that they just live life. They're not burdened by bushido, and kinda live as animals in innocence.
Yes they're cowardly, smelly and wierd.
They lie, cheat, and murder people to protect themselves.
That anon forgot about all the armor and swords of people they killed.
Nope, I did not.
Again, they're not bound by morality.
Be honest. You forgot about that when you said they are "pure". It's okay, it's the internet, I don't know you.
No, I watched the movie like 3 days ago.
What I meant by pure is they're basicly just animals, without morals or worries outside of their own village.
I think that scene where the entire village is wailing in a circle about their woes, and one guy speaks up against the group think and walks out of the circle.
One of the elders just, "'c'mon man, come back to the circle please, we can disagree inside the circle"
Its just kinda... pure you know
They're meek, nebbish, and pathetic. They're not pure. You chose the wrong word to describe them. They're not pure by definition.
I suppose that would depends on your definition of pure.
If by pure you mean that they're always morally upright and follow a code or something, then no... they can more be described as dogs or some kinda herd animal.
What I mean by pure is that they're closer to nature and their own lives.
You would do the same
So do the Samurai
Call me a pleb, but I loved the American remake as well. The original 1960 version of course, not the shitty new one.
>Call me a pleb, but I loved the American remake as well.
I'm the other way. Given how famous it is I was surprised how bad it was compared to Kurosawa's. If I'd been on Cinemaphile in 1960 I'd have described it as soulless.
The thing is, you don't compare them. Sure it's nearly the same story but they're extremely different films. I like how much screen time they give to the big bad (Wallach) and how the 7 decide to go back and frick shit up. They're extremely different films, not just genre wise. It's one of the best American western films.
It's not nearly as good as Seven Samurai, but it has an amazing OST and cast. Here in Germany it's held in very high esteem.
>Here in Germany it's held in very high esteem.
Not surprised, apparently it made three times more money in Europe than in America when it came out.
Seven Samurai was very enjoyable for my autism
is shura a samurai movie? i only ever watched seven samurai and yojimbo and shura and am starting to slowly watch more nip kinos
Samurai Rebellion
I can't believe I had to scroll this much to see this recommendation.
I like Hara Kiri as much as the next guy, but Samurai Rebellion is so damn good.
For a recommendation not in this thread.
The Betrayal
I've seen 138 of them and it's still Seven Samurai.
Harakiri
Samurai Rebellion
Musashi 1-3
Ninja, a Band of Assassins
13 Assassins (2010)
>Ninja, a Band of Assassins
It's great watching an older Ninja film that's an authentic period piece as opposed to the Ninja fighting cocaine dealers flick from the 80's
Rashomon.
Watched and liked:
Seven Samurai
Ran
Harakiri
Yojimbo
The Twilight Samurai
The Hidden Fortress
Still have to watch:
Sanjuro
Sword of Doom
Samurai Rebellion
Rashomon
Kagemusha
Watched and didn't like:
Throne of Blood
Harakiri or Yojimbo.
Any of the Zatoichi flicks, 7 is probably my favorite
The Samurai (1967)
Is about a French assassin
finally a kino thread
G.I Samurai
Kagemusha is super underrated, probably the best looking movie i've ever seen
>OP asks for samurai movies
>People start posting movies just because they take place in Japan in the feudal age
Jidaigeki means all period drama technically but everybody associates it with samurai anyways, for obvious reasons
Fave is either Seven Samurai or maybe one of the very early Zatoichi's.
I'll tell you what the worst samurai movie is. The new one from Kitano - Kubi.
It's an LGBT/Queer samurai movie where they're all gay, and the prostitutes they use are trannies.
I really liked the Zatoichi movie where a girl that used to love him married a mercenary and she ends up setting Zatoichi up for money.
been enjoying these movies tbqh
The first one was great. The others are schlock. Or am I missing something?
They’re schlock kino