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From Akira Kurosawa's legendary Seven Samurai to modern masterpieces like 13 Assassins, this video celebrates the very best of Japanese cinema, blending samurai action, emotion, and historical storytelling. 🔥 Whether you're discovering these samurai warrior films for the first time or revisiting your favorites, this is the ultimate guide for lovers of Japanese action movies, samurai adventure movies, and the top samurai films ever made. This TOP LIST video counts down the 20 best samurai films of all time, showcasing iconic classics and modern masterpieces. The countdown explores diverse stories of honor, duty, and revenge, spanning various eras and styles. Experience unforgettable warriors and sword-swinging epics from Japanese cinema's rich history. Summary How this was made Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. Learn more Ask Get answers, explore topics, and more Ask questions Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript TOP LIST 79.7K subscribers Videos About Shop the TOP LIST store Classic Cowboy Hat Mug $15.99 Spring It’s Movie Time Comfort Tee $25.99 Spring Summer Paradise Sunset Classic Crew Neck T-Shirt $22.99 Spring It’s Movie Time Comfort Tee $23.99 Spring The West Is Still Wild Classic Crew Neck T-Shirt $24.99 Spring Floral Skull Revolvers Classic Crew Neck T-Shirt $22.99 Spring 373 Comments rongmaw lin Add a comment... @Badmotherfucker70s 2 months ago Zatoichi has a large catalog and it's all fantastic. 7 Reply @AnnaMorganFairchild 4 months ago My all-time favorite samurai movie is Seven Samurai. And I agree, it is one of the greatest movies ever made. 60 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @danamontagnese6063 4 months ago Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa are one the most legendary Actor/Director duos ever in the history of movies. 18 Reply TOP LIST · 4 replies @alfredhernandez9799 4 months ago (edited) Twilight Samurai is a truly special movie. A thing of beauty. 43 Reply TOP LIST · 4 replies @TheDoorman55 4 months ago One of my Dad's favorite films was The Seven Samurai (TSS). He'd seen it while stationed in Japan and brought it up throughout my childhood but it was never shown on TV and this was way before VHS. Fast forward to the early 90's and I'm now in the AF myself stationed in Okinawa with my family. Okinawa's video store business was booming and very competitive. While visiting one of my favorite stores, I found TSS to rent. It was a double VHS boxed set and bringing it home, I finally found out why Dad loved it so much. It truly is an unforgettable epic film. Not long after, the video store announced it was going out of business and all videos and laserdiscs would go on sale at 9am the next Saturday. Knowing how popular the store was and how great their collection was, I showed up at 6am and still had about 50 people ahead of me. I wanted TSS for Dad. When the doors opened and the line moved forward, I was finally able to see inside and located TSS on the shelf. So many people walked down that aisle. So many people stopped in the general area. A few actually picked it up and looked at it. Finally, I got inside and quickly maneuvered to its aisle. Someone has just set it down and I swooped it up. I guess the hardest part was not telling Dad about my find and bringing it back to the states with us while on leave and giving it to him. What wasn't hard was sitting with Dad and watching TSS together. In fact, we watched it 3 times while we were home. The wall of Dad's den is now full of DVD's and Blu Ray's including TSS but holding a place of honor on the shelf is that original boxed set of The Seven Samurai. 59 Reply 8 replies @scooterpooter-t5r 4 months ago I've seen them all. But one is better. "When the Last Sword is Drawn", is my favorite. 9 Reply @Morra-d9y 3 months ago I love Toshiro Mifune so much, it's unreal and it hurts a little, kinda like stendhal syndrome - probably this mix of swagger, unpredictability and vulnerability. My favourites with him are Sanjuro and Samurai Rebellion. Also Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai is just one of a kind...did he invent the blueprint for the weirdly super-energetic anime-stereotype? Lol...mabye. I love the fact that Tatsuya Nakadai is still alive, and with us. There's something about these actors and movies from that era...no wonder people still enjoy these gems. 17 Reply @lawsco113 2 months ago “When the last sword is drawn” is deserving of a place on this list. 2 Reply @jeromepudwill 4 months ago I'd give Three Outlaw Samurai a nod too.Available on Criterion. 20 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @farothorma774 3 months ago (edited) Toshiro Mifune being in almost all of them 😅 And also: no Rashōmon in this list is crazy work 20 Reply 4 replies @JohnJohnson-bo5sv 3 months ago Don't forget Raizo Ichikawa 5 Reply @corneliusvanstrien1863 3 weeks ago The 1980 Shogun Assassin has always been one of my favorites. 1 Reply @PPlex66 2 months ago I love the "Lone Wolf & Cub" much too much. This is a long and hard way and the Samurai Spirit is always present. What a great epic story. What a journey, both are fantastic, the series and all the movies. Love the actors in the series most. 3 Reply @davidtrujillo7877 6 days ago Roshomon is a great Samarai story, told in a very creative way. Reply @stdocyuze9000 4 months ago Although "Red Beard" is not a samurai film, it is grounded in Kurosawa’s signature tone while also bearing a kind of “sabi” reminiscent of Mizoguchi’s aesthetic. In that sense, it stands apart from his other works, and I personally regard it as a masterpiece in which Kurosawa reached a new creative frontier. 10 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @jeffherdzina6716 3 weeks ago Seven Samurai is literally the "Tip of the sword" when it comes to Samurai movies. And the rest of those mentioned are all great films. 1 Reply @adrianwebster6923 4 months ago I will always have a soft spot for Ten to Chi to (Heaven and Earth) for its wonderful battle scenes and the overall story of the faceoffs between Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin. 12 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @danamontagnese6063 4 months ago Seven Samurai is one of my all time favorite movies. I first saw it at an artsy movie theater in my home town in the late 70's and have been in love with it ever since. 12 Reply TOP LIST · 6 replies @paulespinoza974 4 months ago 7 Samurai... no comparison to the others listed herein. Greatest even when compared to American, English, French, Italian and German masterpieces. 12 Reply TOP LIST · 3 replies @deanzaZZR 4 months ago I am surprised Inagaki's Chushingura did not make the list. The film is iconic for big dollar cinema (at the time) with a long list of stars and amazing costume and set design. Of course the tale of the 47 loyal samurai has been told many times. 11 Reply TOP LIST · 4 replies @RamZar50 2 months ago The new 5-hour miniseries on Netflix: Last Samurai Standing. 1 Reply @paulevans5455 4 months ago (edited) My favorites are Samurai Fiction , 13Assassins , Abacus and Sword , Ame Agaru , Blade of the Immortal , Tajomaru , At Rivers Edge , Flower and Sword , Yamazakura , The Hidden Blade , Love and Honor, The Twilight Samurai , When The Last Sword is Drawn , Zakura Zaka no Adauchi , Death Shadows , A Duel Tale , Goemon , Goyokin , The Hidden Blade , Ronin Gai , Samurai Assassin , A Samurai Chronicle , Sasaki Kojiro , Sword of Desperation , I have so many that complement your twenty and even exceed the quality. 20 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @unclecreepy4324 4 months ago Without some of these movies there would have been no Magnificent Seven or Fistful of Dollars. 9 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @최수진-q5l 2 weeks ago Agreed ❤❤❤ 1 Reply @iz7979 3 weeks ago Shogun assassin must be on this list! 1 Reply @georgehenley6966 1 month ago I must admit most of these movies I never heard of accept the 7 samurai Reply @williamweb9782 3 months ago (edited) My favourite Japanese film is "The Twilight Samurai". It is about a Samurai who is a single parent. There is a scene where the main character tells his daughter that "books are important because they teach you how to think!" 1 Reply @kimsikoryak3830 4 months ago (edited) A worthy addition is "After the Rain." it's a very different kind of story, but immensely moving and satisfying. The "Lone Wolf and Cub" movies are also superb. 9 Reply TOP LIST · 5 replies @perryhughes9429 2 months ago Seven Samurais is indeed a masterpiece Reply @rickrussel2804 3 months ago Samurai Reincarnation , Renegade Ninja, Shogun Assassin 1 Reply @NotBoringFilms 2 months ago the ai chatbot narrator is a bummer. Reply @We_are_Nomad 3 months ago Besides "Twilight Samurai" (8) and "The Hidden Blade" (3), don't forget the equally beautiful and poignant third member of Yoji Yamada's trilogy, "Love and Honor." All of these stories are taken from, or inspired by, the short stories of Shuhei Fujisawa. The way that the protagonists preserve their love and honor when it is threatened by misfortune and cruelty is not to be missed! 2 Reply @chinoasesino3465 2 months ago So basically Akira Kurosawa is the GOAT of samurai cinema. I counted about 10-15 of his films Reply @xjp1998 3 months ago I thought Heaven and Earth 1990 would be on the list it is one of my favorites but this was a great list none the less. 5 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @uleebuffalo 3 weeks ago (edited) No Hitokiri? No Castle of Flames? What about Bushido:Cruel Code of the Samurai? I would 100% include at least one of the Lone Wolf and Cub films on this list. Reply @victorgarcia-zj2bc 4 weeks ago I know its not a movie but SHOGUN is incredibly good... Reply @trancepriest 2 months ago And disappointingly not a single one that I haven't seen a few times. Japan needs to produce more of these films. Reply @jeancollin8224 3 months ago (edited) Plus: RASHOMON and "After the Rain" of course ! 1 Reply @matttam646 4 months ago #5 is Ran, not Ren. 3 Reply @litog888 2 weeks ago Seven samurai is a samurai movie where the chief protagonist isn't even a samurai but a wannabe. True also for kagemusha. I surmised it's called as such for the sword and the code that bound (or not) its wielders. Without the sword, they are war, gangster, politics, crime, westerns movies etc. Reply @StanleyGrill 3 months ago This video only mentions the director’s name when it’s Akira Kurasawa - as if the other great films had none! 1 Reply @ssm726 4 months ago I guested no 1 from the start. I love it, even as a child 3 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @AgilaeaNahyzina 1 month ago That’s 20 minutes of my life I won’t get back😅 Reply @rudybenavides-z4y 1 month ago I own 15 of the 20 Hidden Blade Brought me to tears Katagiri Honor and love and respect for the code of the Samurai and the women he loved its a powerful movie for anyone to see and enjoy true Japanese worrier Discipline and Honor Reply @valeriebest98 3 months ago The samurai movies, callled Samurai 1, 2 and 3, I cannot believe they not on the list , they are epic 1 Reply 2 replies @erico2079 2 months ago The Legend and The Butterfly 1 Reply @MelvinMartin-m8g4o 2 months ago Sonny chiba film was the first I watch in samurai film Reply @ThundahComes 2 months ago Yojimbo was remade by Hollywood into LAST MAN STANDING with Bruce Willis! Reply @DoctorX101 4 months ago Nakadai Tatsuya is in nearly all of them. 2 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @musashimiyamoto586 4 weeks ago (edited) Where do these people get their titles from? There is no definite article in "Sword of Doom" or "Hidden Fortress". Reply @DRDetriot-vl3sn 3 months ago No time Stamps, no like button. Reply @ShaolinSoldier 3 months ago Revenge (1964) needs to be on this list Reply @KimRoman-j7u 2 months ago LONE WOLF AND CUB 👍👍👍 Reply @Yowen-t2s 4 months ago The "Lone Wolf and Cub" franchise deserves an honorable mention. 33 Reply TOP LIST · 36 replies @who52au 3 months ago May I add " Love and Honor " to the list ... 1 Reply @ishmaelwilson6702 3 months ago Hands down "SHOGUN ASSASSIN" Reply @fletchkeilman2205 3 months ago Glad you put Kiru! (Kill!) on this list. Damn good film Reply @TheTrueBobDole 2 weeks ago Samurai shudo. Their apprentices were 10-11 years old. Reply @MichaelTong-u3x 3 months ago Since this is about samurai, it would be nice if samurai was pronounced correctly. Reply @GabrielFabella-c1i 1 month ago We all know which film would be #1. But everyone is guessing who’s #2. Reply @MrResearcher122 2 months ago Without Rashomon, you must be drunk on Saki. I'd thought it'll be 1, let alone not here! Reply @Erik-vp5bm 3 months ago Zatoichi from 2003 deserves a mention of its own. While the older Zatoichi movies has already been mentioned, this one has a flavor of its own. Not many movies feels sad when the antagonist dies, but this is one of them. Reply @michaelwheatt8326 3 months ago Shogun Assassin & lone wolf franchise 1 Reply @pleiadesneptunes 4 months ago Seven Samurai is one of the greatest movies e v e r ! I like also the new Zatoichi, the Blind Samurai, and the absurdly violent Blade of the Immortal, where samurai slaughter each other over what the right weapon and fight style is for a samurai, where there is little honor, and where after a yet another bloodbath the ones with guns win! 4 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @sushibar777 2 months ago Yojimbo should be number 1. Seven Samurai, Ran, and Kagemusha are right up there. Reply @IAMCAVE 4 months ago (edited) Yojimbo is the inspiration for “For A Few Dollars More”. There’s also Rashomon a murder mystery with no conclusion. Honestly it’s brilliant. Also Azumi, which is basically live action anime, but a great film nonetheless. There is the Lone Wolf and Cub series. 47 Ronin which is based on a true story. 3 Reply 1 reply @mattgreen7692 2 months ago I totally support Harakiri being number 2. I know 7 Samurai is the most iconic samurai movie ever, but Harakiri is among my top five movies of all time, alongside the likes of Master and Commander, Princess Mononoke, Big Fish, and Saving Private Ryan Reply @ioannisdamianos4716 3 months ago Seven samurai . I agree the best action film ever. Reply @森本哲也-k5l 4 months ago Harakiri is the best. 3 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @Darkhyron 2 months ago Incredibly the lack of culture does not mention any of the 6 films of Lone Wolf And Cub Reply @kennethpullen2774 3 months ago Has Nadakai ever blinked? Reply @1COMIXMAN 4 months ago Notice how toshiro mifune is the star in most of these. Man had the lockdown on samurai movies. Reply @kavitvaishnav939 2 months ago Kuro Obi (2007) a.k.a. bleck belt must also be in this list. Explains true meaning of karate. Reply @makuapueo 2 months ago Sounds like it's gonna be, "The Best Forty," or is it fifty, sixty no, on, maybe a hundred. Ahhhh, frick it! Reply @EddieBloecher 3 months ago The Hidden Fortress was a huge inspiration for George Lucas when writing the Star Wars Saga. 3 Reply TOP LIST · 3 replies @JexeonTV 2 months ago Sword brakes at 16:47 😂 Reply @dessaint5341 2 months ago @Top List Sword of Doom should be in top 5! Reply @nickashton3584 3 months ago lone wolf and cub aka shogun assassin Reply @Armando97531 3 weeks ago While not a direct Samurai movie, Azumii 2003 about kids taught Samurai and assassin skills until they were of age to be used, is an excellent movie. Yes, it delves into some crazy themes, and one very insane assassin who uses a sword with no hilt, because he NEVER has had to go on the defense with any person he has terminated 😂. The Sword of Doom is so good, I would have placed it in the top three. The Ronin is a mischievous devil, but we find out that honor is nothing buy an illusion to many, and he exposes it so darn well. The part where: “Mifune” demonstrates his skills against assassins, puts fear and doubt in his skills as a swordsman… that was a thing of beauty. The way it ended was not to my liking, but I believe the director was planning to make one if not two sequels, but did not… The Last Samurai should have had some love by you, but I know it’s not cool to like a modern version with the main character NOT being Japanese, but it deserved love. Reply @elsafrei 3 months ago (edited) " Après la pluie" film magnifique d'apres un scenario de Kurosawa...A voir absolument .... 2 Reply @jongrho602 3 months ago Having seen the majority of the films listed, I'd have to say my personal favorite is Sanjuro as it was on a lighter vein which is rare in the Samurai genre, Sanjuro was the sequel to Yojimbo, and the "Nameless Warrior" theme was copied (along with pretty much everything except the setting) by Sergio Leone in making the "Man with no name" westerns that made Clint Eastwood's early career. The reason the narrator made references to space and galaxy when talking about the Hidden Fortress was because the two bickering peasants and mercenary helping a fleeing Hime was used by George Lucas in Star Wars. Little surprised that Rashomon was not mentioned although I guess its not technically a Samurai movie and more of a courtroom drama set during Samurai times. 1 Reply @trptguy23 3 months ago Anything lone wolf and cub Reply @phillipkurzski1413 4 months ago I thought "When the Last Sword is Drawn" might make it. Reply @JS77780 3 months ago There's a lot more but the list are great movies,saw them all 2 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @fan-i-am 3 months ago (edited) What about Dora-Heita? Can't believe it wasn't included here! It was planned and written by the Yonki-no-kai, a group of four of Japan's most notable directors: Kon Ichikawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Keisuke Kinoshita, and Akira Kurosawa in 1969. But only got released in 2000. But a genuinely unique take on the Edo period. I also can't believe Lone Wolf and Cub wasn't on the list! Reply @pritch818 3 months ago Missed: the Trilogy, Roshomon, 47 Ronin, and my favorite, Chushingura. Reply @ksrithan 3 months ago I love the Hidden Blade so much. Reply @lantern1234-n6d 3 months ago Heaven & earth . Reply @VonWenk 4 months ago How do you go through 20 samurai movies without once using the term chambara? 4 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @ilarikokko8052 3 months ago Last Samurai IS best Reply @Gurneydog 3 months ago The AI voice’s accent changes for some reason. Reply @steveschainost7590 4 months ago Love Samurai movies and have seen (multiple times) most of these. What is fun is seeing (aside from Mifine Toshiro) the same actors showing up in these. The Samurai I, II, III trilogy is really good at showing the personal growth of Musashi Miyamoto. I saw 13 Assassins fairly recently and was amazed at the length and shear violence of the closing battle. 2 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @t.andrewhanes872 3 months ago Huge Chanbara fan. Good list! 2 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @raylynch7412 3 months ago Thank you I need to step up my Samurai Game Reply @MusaOzilOfficial 1 month ago Thank you for this i have alot of these movies in 4K. I need to buy Samurai Assasin and Twilight Samurai now!! Reply @jakubfabisiak9810 3 months ago How can you make a list like this, and not include an adaptatrion of Chushingura? Either Chushingura: Hana no maki, yuki no maki, or The fall of Ako Castle should have made the cut. Ame Agaru is another classic that deserves recognition. Reply @방탕중년단-b7u 4 months ago nemuri kyoshiro top 1 5 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @markvonschober6872 3 months ago Where’s Heaven and Earth and Zatoichi (2003)? Reply @spyz1448 3 months ago (edited) Teisonuke Kinugasa' s "Gate of Hell"/1953 which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film in 1955 and Nagisa Oshima' s last film "Gohatto"(also known as "Taboo"), should be there too. 2 Reply @BladeStar-uq6xe 4 months ago At least 6 or 7 are Kurosawa Movies! Add the Shogun 4-Movie Collection, the Musashi Trilogy, at least 1 or 2 Lone Wolf and Cub movies. 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @willieluncheonette5843 4 months ago have seen maybe 3 or 4 but remember liking Yojimbo the best. That was 60 years ago so maybe my taste would be different today. 4 Reply TOP LIST · 4 replies @Pat6670 3 months ago Where the hell is Gymkata? Reply @brohanfromrohan5771 3 months ago I hear AI and I just can't. Reply @sakaiya-u7y 4 months ago 日本人なのに知らない映画がたくさんありました。ありがとうございます。 6 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @DB-zi9un 2 months ago (edited) the narration - no one writes or talks like this. but i see it in so many of these youtube works. it would be so much better if the script was not run through Ai and more than once. Reply @RogerDier-x7i 4 weeks ago You made a BIG mistake by not including Inagakis 'Chushingura'...a unmissable and epic drama about the legendary 47 Ronin, Japans most iconic and highly revered true tale of vengeance and restoration of besmirched honor...should hav e been no. 3 or 4 on your list. Reply @Lambert06Pasquale06 2 months ago isn't it possible to do these without AI voices? Reply @samuelgates5935 4 months ago The "Sword of Doom" is #13😢 I love that movie. He was "insane" but his skills were TERRIFYING! Groups of swordsmen were afraid to attack him, even though they outnumbered him. 2 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @frankhall9708 4 months ago Great list. Unfortunately the AI narrator pronounces Kurosawa about 8 different ways. Reply @KiddCaribou 4 months ago Seven Samurai, The Last Samurai, Ran - the top three on my list in no particular order! All three are instructive samurai movies!! 2 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @mikewhicker9771 3 months ago If we are suffering superhero fatigue, can samurai get a renaissance? Actually...scrub that, Hollywood would only wither bury it or wokify it! Damnit Hollywood! Reply @vincenthammond9937 3 months ago The greatest samurai film of all time was the shoguns assassin 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @zaximbud100 3 months ago Awesome video thank you good sir 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @frazermiller9571 4 months ago Disappointed that you havent included 6 of the greatest samurai films ever made... Lone Wolf 😮 3 Reply TOP LIST · 3 replies @James-pq7nf 4 months ago not 1 LONE WOLF ANCD CUB 3 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @中島美奈子-j7t 3 months ago I recommend Ninja Gari. Samurai vs ninja. Reply @arnaudmercadier1477 3 months ago I've watched all those movies. It's still lacking some movies imo... 😅 : Last samurai (Misumi), Hitokiri (Gosha), and some others movies from those two directors (like Baby cart movies). Reply @vana.johnson8845 3 months ago Back in late 80's they had Samurai Saturday's on one of the cable channels. Wow what an entry to these Great Modern movie classics🀄🎴 Reply @leonpelao4806 4 months ago Toshiro Mifune: Samurai Pirate (Daitôzoku), where the wizard seems to be the inspiration for Dragon Balls' Muten-Roushi; The Three Treasures; The Hidden Fortress; Sengoku gunto-den; Kiganjô no bôken; Daredevil in the Castle; Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, and many more. 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @jurgenfunck9618 3 months ago I like the Samurai Movies from Akira Kurosawa and Takeshi Miike! 👍 Reply @solarguy1702 4 months ago Maybe doesn't qualify but I really like Ugetsu. Samurai wannabe but his wife waits for him. 1 Reply @leagreenall5972 3 months ago Seven Samurai is my favourite movie of all time... I know this maybe unpopular and no one mentions it, but I loved 'The Last Samurai'. The story, and THAT Hans Zimmer score.... the best modern samurai movie in my opinion. 1 Reply 1 reply @vahagnmovsesyan8827 4 months ago “After rain”-one of the best samurai movies…maybe it’s twenty first in your ranking? 2 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @EarthMan-l4x 4 months ago ❤sleepy eyes of death. Reply @davidmetz6140 3 months ago (edited) To be honest I believe these are all good. But you missed the very best samurai movie ever!!! “When the last sword is drawn” is epic The Samurai trilogy was also very moving especially the final duel. “Onibaba” was another unique story. A great series was “Toyama no kinsan” However, Toshiro Mifune was definitely the king of the Samurai role. Nobody else even came close! Reply @gerarddevesin1900 2 months ago I have seen many of these films. My favorite out of this list is 13 Assassins and 7 Samurai. Although this next movie I will mention is not technically a samurai movie “Azumi” I one of my favorite ninja movies of all time. Also the remake of “Zatoichi” by Takeshita Kitano. And lastly “Shogun Assassin” the movie edited from the tv series is a staple of my childhood and love for samurai movies. Reply @Ronin47Zai47 3 months ago kubi 2023 Reply @Ronin47Zai47 3 months ago musashi 2019 Reply @AlphaBravoDingo 3 months ago twilight samurai is not on this list!? Reply @Andreorlov607 4 months ago Love all samurai movies 🎥 2 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @JS77780 3 months ago All great ❤ Reply @moraldross 3 months ago how can anybody stand listening to this ai??? Reply @RamZar50 4 months ago The “Samurai 7” (2004) Anime TV series based on Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is a good one too. 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @peterlovett5841 3 months ago Having seen most of the films on your list I don't disagree with their inclusion but I would rearrange the order. Just one example I would have "Twilight Samurai" higher than 8. Reply @Whitey8.2 4 days ago "When the last sword is drawn" Is not on this list anywhere. Meaning it's worthless. Reply @Renato-h7u6f 4 months ago Twilight Sebei is my #1 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @sawakiss1 4 months ago Toei has produced the most samurai movies in Japan. Why are there no Toei films on this list? 2 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @LagrangePoint901 3 weeks ago When I see a top-ranked list, the first thing that comes to mind is, whose list is this and how were the selections made. I mean, don't we all look to see how our choices compared to the "experts"? Well it's a moot point. With that said, here are my comments. Why is only part 1 of the Samurai Trilogy listed? If anything, it should be considered one movie in 3 parts. It's a life story. As such, we miss the climax duel with Musashi and Sasaki. I'm also wondering why the 47 Ronin isn't included, not the cheezy one with Keanu Reeves but the 1941 classic? The story is epic in Japanese culture. That my 2 cents and for the most part I agree with the list,...sorta. Yojimbo #2. Reply @NickWard-f6l 4 months ago Love sword of Doom 1 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @gabrielalberto4054 4 weeks ago kenshin Reply @tommymorrison6478 4 months ago No. 1 is unarguable. But where are "When The Last Sword Is Drawn"? And "Zatoichi (2003)"? 4 Reply TOP LIST · 4 replies @fokosmok_1 3 months ago Ai everywhere :( Reply @maskedfishing7168 3 months ago They are not "samurai " movies however if you enjoy movies based in feudal japan I would check out onibaba and kwaidan 1 Reply @boneytfilmore9169 3 months ago (edited) there's room for one more, because you only listed 19 movies (#16 is omitted from the list) 1 Reply @wakeupuk3860 4 months ago Obviously AI-generated created, because of the 'repetition' of film excerpts THREE TIMES during the narration on a particular film. True shame, especially if the person who typed in the title for Ai to create this YouTube,if you are Japanese, which I doubt. Because having travelled, worked and lived in many countries in the world my two visits to Japan, found with out any doubt the Japanese to be the most honourable people in the world. Also as a British person, who holds a senior belt in martial arts, since the 1970s have had a great interest in Samurai films, due to Seven Samurai where i went on to watch all of the films in this video many times. Thus to who tick the the AI app to create this YouTube by not reviewing, checking and ensuring which any video and professional film creator would do, you SHAME all those actors, film directors and camera crew who made these great films. Which you did for the sole purpose as sadly so many AI YT makers do for, is to extend viewing time to get more YT adverts and thus make advertising revenue. I know as I have taught IT to kids and then adults since 1982! 2 Reply @Fkt16 3 months ago Why didn't you mention one of the best movies " The Last Samurai"? 1 Reply 1 reply @t8721277 2 months ago Whats the name of the movie? a samurai vs a knight fencer? I watch that movie before but i cant remember its title wayback 1996? Reply @tommyapocalypse6096 4 months ago Good video, but bad narration. Anyone else notice that film #19's narrator was British English, while all other films had a more American narration? Strange and wondrous... Reply @isasuleiman8459 3 months ago (edited) You nailed it putting with the movies you put in here. And while i think do think 7 samurai is an excellent movie. My favorite movie in the Samurai genre isn’t even here😂 Which is Azumi. The story is just very fascinating to me, How her mother was killed when she was just a child, how she was forced to slay her lover to prove she had what it took to be an assassin and then the moral struggle and she tries to balance what she is in her mind , up to the moment when she finally accepts what she is.. a cold blooded assassin 😂 Reply @backbackforward 3 months ago Is this beijg read by Ai? Reply @motor1130 4 months ago 上位三作品の選定は申し分なし。特に三位の「隠し剣　鬼の爪」は、山田洋次監督侍三部作の中でも最も愛着のある作品。海外の方なのに非常に時代劇に造詣が深い方とお見受けし、感服いたしております。かたじけない。 3 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @OldSchoolFilm1930 4 months ago Great list but still missing some unavoideble classics like the movies of the very director who started it all: Yamanaka Sadao: sadly only three complete movies (1935-37) survived WW2 but those are still outstanding. Samurai Fiction: the deconstruction of the sleak Samurai film. Sleepy Eyes of the Dead: the sort of father to "Sword of Doom", 12-part film series about a not-so-much Samurai/Ronin, featuring a very bad upper class. Punk Samurai by legendary director Ishii Sogo: wild fantasy 2 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @DavyDredd14 4 months ago 'Samurai Movies' I most like to watch : RAN (1985) The Twilight Samurai (2002) 13 Assassins (2010) 1 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @dessaint5341 2 months ago @Top List You left out When the Last Sword is Drawn (2002) better than a bunch of movies you mentioned. You also left out Sansho: The Bailiff (1954). The best Samurai movie ever is unanimously agreed by critics everywhere to be Harakiri, an overall superior movie to 7 Samurai, which may be just better known. Your list is highly subjective, but so are most others. When you say 20 Best Samurai Movies of All Time, that in itself is highly subjective and so are your rankings. Reply @vp3970 4 months ago What about Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning? 2021 2 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @ciel83 4 months ago samurai x rurouni kenshin not even on the list, its has 6 movie already 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ 3 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @raven2934 3 months ago (edited) #5 Kagemusha, #4 Ran, #3 Seven Samurai, #2 Heaven & Earth(Ten to Chi) & #1 The Last Samurai. Anything with Toshiro Mifune and made by Akira Kurosawa is great. But my favorite character is Zatoichi, with Shintaro Katsu. I love all 26 movies plus the whole tv series, 114 episodes. I can never get enough of the Blind Swordsman. Don't get it confused with Beat Takeshi's 2003 film. That was trash. He wasn’t even blind. There are alot more great movies out there, but these are my favorites. 1 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @marcinborowski6938 4 months ago Zabrakło takich dzieł jak "Dora Heita", "Ame Agaru", "Gojoe", "Gohatto", a warto je zobaczyć. 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @cyrilpenaluna748 4 months ago Red Sun also kenshin no mention 1 Reply 1 reply @djdj71d 4 months ago (edited) Seven Samurai is good but overrated. It's not even Kurosawa's best chanbara film. I would've chosen Harakiri as number one and would have included Chushingura somewhere in the list. And you completely left out the Lone Wolf and Cub series. Those were amazing! Tomisaburo Wakayama was an incredible force! 2 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @CrimsonKitty 2 months ago I've seen 15 of these good job me. But where TF can I watch Goyokin 😭😭 Reply 1 reply @chroniczoo4352 3 months ago Great video Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @Lucfrdebraganca 3 months ago Os dois camponeses e a princesa de A fortaleza escondida foram uma das fontes de George Lucas para criar R2D2, C3PO e... a princesa Lea. Reply @Carandini 3 months ago Rather suspect list. The Miike remake of '13 Assassins' rather than the original? Not a single version of 47 Ronin makes the cut? 1 Reply 1 reply @melocitysolo9574 2 months ago Zatoichi is ranked way too low. And where the hell is “Lone Wolf and Cub(Kozure Ookami)”? 😤 Reply @lednebnoj 3 months ago A great list some that I don't know.. But how can you leave out lone Wolf and Cub? 1 Reply 1 reply @Top8Curiosity 3 months ago film ok Reply @helmutsteeg2666 4 months ago Danke für Ihr Video. Ich bin mit Ihrem Ranking sehr einverstanden. Ich halte auch " die 7 Samurai " für einen der besten Filme aller Zeiten. 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @PatrickGreeneFearwriter 2 weeks ago Hell, I'll just look up a typed list if you can't be bothered to "create" a real video without AI bullshit. Reply @1965hidefuji 3 months ago Best2Haraki ? This movie 切腹seppuku 😌　公式海外タイトルですが日本ではニュアンスが変わってしまうのが残念です😢 Reply @justinrowlands7678 2 months ago Seems your AI speech app can't speak Japanese. Im sure it will learn in time! Reply @karlb4657 1 month ago I have no problem with the list so far (I’m at 12). I take issue with the description of each film that is both generic and lacking in genuine detail. Probably AI generated. So far not once has an actors name been mentioned or their performance. Example, anyone who’s seen The sword of doom knows it’s a masterclass in acting from Tatsuya Nakadai that makes the film so uncomfortable to watch. Any mention? Nope. Highlight these film, use the tools to edit and voice over a piece. Just for the love of Buddha write it yourself with opinions that are your own! Reply @ellenbrennan7021 3 months ago Harakiri and Kagemusha for me. 4 Reply 1 reply @bmw128racer 2 months ago Even though the video subject is interesting, these robotic AI narrations are god awful and downright annoying to listen to. Reply @flyguy456thetechnicsking3 2 weeks ago (edited) A swordsman is a Swords in Any Background No matter ethic Background and You Should Have Gave a Honorable Mention to Sword Master 3D ...........Better than 90% of These films ......Watch Then Comm🎉ent and I ll give More Asian Movies .....Yall May Slept On.... Reply @erikriggiola6780 3 months ago Is this narrator real or AI because he sounds like a robot. I cringe at his Japanese pronunciation. Reply @09nob 3 months ago I wasted my money on the 3 Musashi films, the fight choreography is awful it looks like kids playing with toy swords and some of the drama was so overwrought, I gave up in the end. It's a beautiful looking film though. Reply @duckontherun932 3 months ago Great list, except for 13 assassins. That movie is so overrated, and one of Miike's worst. It is so by the book and lack any kind of creativity that Miike is known for. It is very much the most commercial, and made "for western audiences" of his films. Reply @earthzero2375 4 months ago WHAT NO AZUMI ??? 1 Reply TOP LIST · 2 replies @robertgiles9124 4 months ago (edited) I would not call Kagemusha a "Samurai film" as much as the others here; and also it was not as good as it would have been had they used Mifune in the lead part. Kurosawa didn't want to pay the money Mifune wanted. Too bad. Ran was a masterpiece though. 1 Reply TOP LIST · 7 replies @RightTurnClyde 3 months ago The Last Samurai should be on this list Reply @RamZar50 4 months ago “The Hidden Blade” (2004) is ranked way too high. 1 Reply @DidierYou-c9y 4 months ago N'oubliez pas que Yojimbo a inspiré A Fistful of Dollars. 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @scottburch3178 4 months ago Does the last samurai fit in this category? 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @spanishbaldman 3 months ago “Yojimbo” is great, but “Sanjuro” is a mediocre film that does not deserve to be on this list. Besides, " Lady snowblood " and the Zatoichi series are no samurai films. Reply 1 reply @stevenphillips6318 4 months ago Shogun Assassin 2 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @franscopers6762 4 months ago What about The 47 Ronin by Kenji Mizoguchi... 🤔 1 Reply TOP LIST · 1 reply @user-kx2op7sr3n 4 months ago The Japanese documentary on Netflix was great but most Japanese samurai movies aren’t very good. Chinese movies are way better Reply 2 replies @Dstoku21 3 months ago (edited) No 47 Ronin? Or Lone wolf with child? Reply @martinbrenner6664 4 months ago Neither did Kill Bill. 2 Reply TOP LIST · 3 replies @martinbrenner6664 4 months ago The last samurai didn’t even make the list. 1 Reply 2 replies @jamesfiaco4922 4 months ago 10-2 The summonings are not to make something appear. but to make visible what was already there As in your love for me & How I condition my heart during my 3rd Clinical death as a child warrior prince guardian. on the way back to my body, living in accordance to be able to validate such a confession with absolute certainty. The world's greatest love story, most significant in one sentence versus all the books in one paragraph, is It's time to have a book BBQ. Will dance around it like wild Indians. We'll be able to see the flames for miles. No offense to any Native Americans. For I know that.If we're basing who is here first gets to proclaim this land. It's most likely Native American. Even more important if you are Native American. And you want to make the most for yourself and your cultural bloodline. Then live and die at your best based on the most highly evolved aspects of love consistent with the purity of blood. Fortunately, this deal is available.For all bloodlines. The bad news? It is when I took on all the world's pain.I didn't consciously know at the time.That as soon as I confessed my love to one person in my life as my wife that pain would be on its way back, faster than acquired. Thankfully, since we're not all created equal, solutions have been advised. That should be able to offset fully compensate even going beyond. For all these years of missed opportunity Reply @jayfelsberg1931 3 months ago The plot of six seems strangely familiar,,,,, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars Reply Top is selected, so you'll see featured comments