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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
2) Rashōmon
Series
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema, and a commanding new star.
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
日本語
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Description
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, directed by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. The film fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh Theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Appears on list
Description
Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry or war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic. Kagemusha is presented in its original uncut version and features many special bonus features.
6) Shogun
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
John Blackthorne is a ship-wrecked English navigator who becomes both an observer and a participant in historic changes in Japan during the Tokugawa, or, Edo period. Toranaga is a feuding warlord vying to become the supreme military dictator, or sh?gun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Pub. Date
2014
Language
日本語
Description
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, directed by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. The film fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh Theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
8) Rashomon
Series
Criterion collection volume 138
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
日本語
Description
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema, and a commanding new star.
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
11) Love and honor
Publisher
Funimation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
Depicts the emotional intensity of an age when respect was more valuable than riches and love cut more truly than any sword. Shinnojo Mimura is a samurai, sharing a hand-to-mouth life with his beautiful wife, until he goes blind, and loses everything.
13) Tsubaki Sanjūrō
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
A group of young men set out to clean up the corruption in their town. They are joined by a scruffy, cynical samurai who doesn't fit their concept of how a warrior should look and act.
15) The last samurai
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
16) Dora-heita
Series
Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
日本語
Description
Koheita is a samurai with a reputation for debauchery, so his appointment as magistrate of the most corrupt township in Japan raises a few eyebrows on both sides of the law...but is everything as it seems?
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
日本語
Description
Alien occupied feudal Japan is strange by any normal standards, but at Gintoki's Odd Jobs agency, the freelancers have learned to expect the weirdest of the weird when it comes to assignments. When a company specializes in doing the oddest of odd jobs, the odds are that that oddness is bound to rub off. But the really bad part about the job is that it pays so little for the near-terminal risk to life and limb that almost every mission inevitably ends...
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