Samurai films

55 films, oldest first within each decade.

1920s (1)

• A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1927) – Daisuke Itō

1930s (2)

• Aerograd (1935) – Oleksandr Dovzhenko
• The Abe Clan (1938) – Hisatora Kumagai

1940s (1)

• The 47 Ronin (1941) – Kenji Mizoguchi

1950s (9)

• Rashomon (1950) – Akira Kurosawa
• Samurai Trilogy (1954) – Hiroshi Inagaki
• Seven Samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa
• Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955) – Tomu Uchida
• Akō Rōshi: Ten no Maki, Chi no Maki (1956) – Sadatsugu Matsuda
• Dai-bosatsu tōge (1957) – Tomu Uchida
• Freelance Samurai (1957) – Kenji Misumi
• Throne of Blood (1957) – Akira Kurosawa
• Travels of Lord Mito (1958) – Kenji Misumi

1960s (12)

• Akō Rōshi (1961) – Sadatsugu Matsuda
• Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (1962) – Hiroshi Inagaki
• Harakiri (1962) – Masaki Kobayashi
• The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) – Kenji Misumi
• 13 Assassins (1963) – Eiichi Kudo
• Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (1963) – Tai Katō
• Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963) – Tadashi Imai
• Assassination (1964) – Masahiro Shinoda
• On the Road Forever (1964) – Kenji Misumi
• Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) – Hideo Gosha
• Akuto (Film) (1965) – Kaneto Shindō
• Hiken Yaburi (1969) – Kazuo Ikehiro

1970s (9)

• Bakumatsu (1970) – Daisuke Itō
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972) – Kenji Misumi
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972) – Buichi Saitō
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) – Kenji Misumi
• Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973) – Teruo Ishii
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973) – Kenji Misumi
• Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978) – Hideo Gosha
• Shogun's Samurai (1978) – Kinji Fukasaku
• G.I. Samurai (1979) – Kōsei Saitō

1980s (2)

• Shogun Assassin (1980) – Robert Houston
• The Bushido Blade (1981) – Tsugunobu Kotani

1990s (3)

• Ninja Scroll (1993) – Yoshiaki Kawajiri
• 47 Ronin (1994) – Kon Ichikawa
• After the Rain (1999) – Takashi Koizumi

2000s (8)

• Blood of the Samurai (2001) – Aaron Yamasato
• Chūshingura 1/47 (2001) – Shunsaku Kawake
• Red Shadow (2001) – Hiroyuki Nakano
• Aragami (2003) – Ryuhei Kitamura
• Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) – Quentin Tarantino
• The Hidden Blade (2004) – Yōji Yamada
• Dororo (2007) – Akihiko Shiota
• Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009) – Fuminori Kizaki

2010s (5)

• 13 Assassins (2010) – Takashi Miike
• Bunraku (2010) – Guy Moshe
• 47 Ronin (2013) – Carl Rinsch
• Mumon: The Land of Stealth (2017) – Yoshihiro Nakamura
• Batman Ninja (2018) – Junpei Mizusaki

2020s (3)

• Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai (2021) – Masato Harada
• Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021) – Keishi Ōtomo
• The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) – Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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