Also ranks #2 on The Best Samurai Movies Of All Time Also ranks #11 on The Best Japanese Action Movies of All Time Also ranks #16 on The Best '60s Action Movies 86 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander 91 votes At the height of the Cold War,...
Samurai Shodown is a straight-up fighting game and it’s been around since 1993. This is a series of video games from SNK who you may know best from Metal Slug, The King of Fighters, and Fatal Fury. This studio has been around for ages and they’ve gained a following for their arcad...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food. A giant battle occurs w...
First of all, you may be wondering what a ‘backpacking’ website has to do with samurai movies. Well, I’ve been a huge fan of samurai movies since I went to film college when I saw them for the first time, and for the past 25+ years I have watched all the movies listed here,...
The samurai movies are really interesting because they serve as metaphors for Japanese society in the post-samurai world. Should one's family or one's corporation be most important? What is the role of the individual in society? Are those in positions of authority always correct? What is more...
Although all three Factions are fairly even when it comes to the characters on offer, the Samurai stand out as the best Faction in For Honor.
Despite Rebel Moon's disastrous Rotten Tomatoes score, there are defenders of Zack Snyder's sci-fi epic. The movie started with Snyder's desire to make a Star Wars movie only for it to morph into an original idea, albeit one that borrows heavily from Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. It ...
Zatoichi,the remake of a similarly-rated 1962 film, is every bit as deserving as a successor to the title's legacy. It features one of the most unique premises for samurai or action films ever; the protagonist of this samurai movie is a blind masseuse who also happens to be a formidable...
Feudal Japan is infused with magic and mecha in this fictionalized retelling of the life of Yasuke, one of the only known African samurai. Like the actual historical figure, the eponymous Yasuke served under Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period in 16th-century Japan. Embittered ...
Visually, this movie is an absolute marvel. Zilbalodis' creative team aims for a midpoint between realism and impressionism. The animals have no anthropomorphic features, but they're also treated and behave like actual animals. Yet, as realistic as the animals are, the backgrounds and textures ...