Samurai Movies

[Lito]

^

Just watched that nice piece of info made into a small movie. Suggest to everyone.
Im in Latvia, was able to view it, so yeah.

[c.ryo]

Added " The 47 Ronin "

Also there is a remake right now in production and will be released in mid 2012,starring
Keanu Reeves

Hiroyuki Sanada

[Anjin-San]

Thanks, great list. Know half of the movies already, and will watch the other half sometime

[c.ryo]

Thanks, great list. Know half of the movies already, and will watch the other half sometime

Have anything to contribute?

[Anjin-San]

Have anything to contribute?

Aye, haven't seen any myself, but there are several samurai movies out there about a historical blind samurai named zatoichi. Example: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363226/

Not a bad rating. I very much liked "Love and Honor", which tells the story of a blind samurai as well. Good stuff

EDIT: Oh, and Rashomon, which tells a weird story, by Akira Kurosawa.

[c.ryo]

Anjin-San
Thanks for contributing.

[DARTH VADER]

Excellent thread. Thank you cryo +rep.

[c.ryo]

DARTH VADER
You are welcome Darth. Maybe you have something to contribute as well?

[DARTH VADER]

I wish I knew another movie. There is only a documentary I have seen:

Heroes and Villains: Shogun

[iqwerty]

I'm not a fan of any action movies, so my favourite ones are the annual 47-episode-ish historical TV series on NHK. These TV series are quite long because each one typically covers the entire life of the protagonist from his/her birth to death. A new episode comes out almost every week every year. This year it's Taira no Kiyomori.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga_drama

Although the audience is mainly the hardcore history fans and Japanese housewives.

[thebigcheese]

I remember watching this as a kid:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083069/

Great fun!

[c.ryo]

DARTH VADER
iqwerty
thebigcheese
Thank you for contributing.

[Anjin-San]

How could I forget. Didn't watch the shogun series as a kid since I'm 24 now, but I watched it one year ago, great series with great japanese atmosphere, it feels very authentic. And that's where my nick comes from BTW, since the main character gets the japanese name Anjin-San, which means Honorable Pilot. They couldn't pronounce his Name (Cpt. Blackthorne), so they had to rename him

[yupper]

I don't mean to be a killjoy but.....I think there should be like....standards. I mean....the Richard Chamberlain 'Shogun' series and 'The Last Samurai'......gah....

But I recently saw 'Ichimei', the 2011 remake of Kobayashi's 'Harakira/Seppuku.'

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1728196/

Not as good as the original, sadly. It's a faithful adaptation in terms of the narrative, but the rampant cynicism of the original is....just not there. But still, it's worth a watch.

[Delvestius]

Whoa, this is exactly what I was looking for, what a great list!

Last week I watched "13 Assassins" and it became one of my favorite films I'v ever seen.

[DARTH VADER]

Stickied because it is very interesting. It can become inspiring before playing.

[Akahige]

Stickied because it is very interesting. It can become inspiring before playing.

Darth how about implementing short fragments of samurai movies as videos for events. Would it be possible ?

[Seba872]

Sakuradamon-gai no hen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuKIFBHtbkE

Decent samurai movie with good fighting scene.

[c.ryo]

Updated 1st post

And DARTH VADER thanks for sticky.

[Miyamoto]

Some more that need to be added:

Samurai rebellion
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061847/

Heaven and earth (Kenshin vs Shingen)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099753/


Lone wolf and cub
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068815/
and all the saga

Miyamoto Musashi (aka Samurai I, II and III)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047444/