Top 10 SAMURAI Movies Of All Tme

DarkMatter

DarkMatter

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Ok here they are I included Some Movie Series as one:

!. Zatoichi (all except Kitano version)
2. Seven Samurai
3. Sword Of Doom
4. Twilight Samurai
5. When The Last Sword Is Drawn
6. Yojimbo / Sanjuro
7. Samurai Fiction
8. The Hidden Blade
9. Gojoe
10. Kill

P.S. These are not in any preticular order as They are all top of my list.:thumbsup:
 
You didn't like Kitano's take on the franchise?

I thought it was rather refreshing.

So, how great was The Hidden Blade(I thnk it just came out, didn't it?)?
I loved Twilight Samurai. Yoji Yamada rules!

You've pretty much cornered the best of the best.

Some others worth checking out would be:

Kurasawa's "The Hidden Fortress" and "Throne of Blood"

Mizoguchi's "The 47 Ronin" - personal fav

Toshiro Mifune in the "Samurai" (1,2,3) Trilogy - classic

Shintaro Katsu's "Razor" trilogy - He had his hand in the Zatoichi series

And of course, one of my favs, the "Lonewolf and Cub" movies.

That's all I can think of at the moment.


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well being from that area in of cinema i enjoy most heres my list

1 Seven Samurai
2 Yojimbo
3 Lone Wolf and Cub Saga
4 Ran
5 Samurai Fiction
6 Zatoichi
7 Samurai Trilogy
8 Sword of Doom
9 Hidden Fortress
10 Twilight Samurai

Azumi 2 versus are also favs.... there are more but i think i love those the best.
 
spidey said:
well being from that area in of cinema i enjoy most heres my list

1 Seven Samurai
2 Yojimbo
3 Lone Wolf and Cub Saga
4 Ran
5 Samurai Fiction
6 Zatoichi
7 Samurai Trilogy
8 Sword of Doom
9 Hidden Fortress
10 Twilight Samurai

Azumi 2 versus are also favs.... there are more but i think i love those the best.
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I was really disappointed with Zatoichi after seeing it. I thought the fight choreography was really poorly done and edited. Much of the fight scenes consisted of people taking out their swords, a few quick angle cuts, then someone falls to the ground, the end. Even the final fight was edited in this manner which was really a letdown considering the film really went out of its way to hype it up. The story was slow moving, with too many unnecessary side characters that don't add anything to the film (what was up with that kid who runs around with a samuirai sword in his underwear?).

Azumi 2 and Versus suffer from this problem as well--too much flash, not enough substance. Versus was a particularly big disappointment; there are some cool moments here and there but it gets boring fast when the director keeps inserting about 50 "build up" shots of the combatants looking menacingly at each other and have the fight itself lasts but a few seconds.
 
maybe boring but thats the wave of new japanese cinema. ryuhei kitmura likes to be flashy and it works.... but substance not, for fun yea.
 
volcano said:
Thanks for mentioning that. That is how actual samurai warriors fight.. I need to see the Versus now... Do you know any more boring samurai movies like that?
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Realistic doesn't equal interesting, but if you like that style then watch Azumi 1 & 2. Both excellent examples of over produced but under executed action film.
 
Super Trooper said:
You didn't like Kitano's take on the franchise?

I thought it was rather refreshing.

So, how great was The Hidden Blade(I thnk it just came out, didn't it?)?
I loved Twilight Samurai. Yoji Yamada rules!

You've pretty much cornered the best of the best.

Some others worth checking out would be:

Kurasawa's "The Hidden Fortress" and "Throne of Blood"

Mizoguchi's "The 47 Ronin" - personal fav

Toshiro Mifune in the "Samurai" (1,2,3) Trilogy - classic

Shintaro Katsu's "Razor" trilogy - He had his hand in the Zatoichi series

And of course, one of my favs, the "Lonewolf and Cub" movies.

That's all I can think of at the moment.


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There was definitley some great fight scenes in Kitano's version. I just didn't find the movie overall very good, He seemed Overwhelmed to play the character as he should be. But his preformance was too stiff. and lacked any real human feeling. He's more suited as a villan. Which he plays well. Anyone seen Blood And Bones, One of his better preformances.
 
Thanks for the lists guys. I love the few samurai movies I have seen and need to see more. Your picks will be the next movies I watch. I'm going on a samurai binge. I am almost done reading Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa so this would be the perfect time to watch these. By the way, if you haven't, read Musashi it is a great book.
 
Alex DePew said:
Thanks for the lists guys. I love the few samurai movies I have seen and need to see more. Your picks will be the next movies I watch. I'm going on a samurai binge. I am almost done reading Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa so this would be the perfect time to watch these. By the way, if you haven't, read Musashi it is a great book.
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You should def read, The Book Of Five Rings by Musashi. Glad we could help, You can't go wrong on these reccomendations.
 
Watched KAGEMUSHA last night. Not Kurosawa's best, but still a gem in many ways. But not a single sword fight so I don't know if it fits the criteria of this thread.
 
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