Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’ll be counting down our picks for the most influential and enduring examples of samurai cinema. What’s your favorite samurai film? Let us know in the comments!

Ghost of Tsushima is basically a love letter to classic samurai cinema. Specifically, it borrows heavily from the works of Akira Kurosawa—the director who practically invented the modern image ...

Samurai movies typically deliver reliable thrills and action scenes, but classics like Seven Samurai and 13 Assassins are especially entertaining.

Filmed on location in the Pentland Hills in January 2023, it stars Japanese actress Kōki as the eponymous Tornado, a ...

“A Samurai in Time” capped its against-all-odds success story Friday at the 48th Japan Academy Film Prize ceremony, where it ...

And he was determined to add a samurai element. Filmmaker John Maclean ... Festival "At the time I had immersed myself in Japanese cinema," he says. "I had seen and loved some of Kurosawa's ...