For Chinese martial arts film fans, samurai films are not a very ornamental genre, but there are many things worth learning from Chinese films. There may be many people who do not like samurai films because of historical and cultural reasons, but we can at least see part of the reason for the series of successes of the Japanese nation in modern times.
1. Great Bodhisattva Ridge 1966 Director: Kihachi Okamoto Rating: 9.7
If "Seven Samurai" is the pinnacle of "decent" samurai films, then "Great Bodhisattva Ridge" is a representative work of "evil" samurai films. Screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, the author of "Seven Samurai" and "Rashomon", and Tatsuya Nakadai, who played the role of Ryunosuke, also made the performance of this film one of his representative works. The sword Demon Ryunosuke he created is like selling his soul to the devil, with a double flash of demonism and genius. This character has such a contradictory temperament, on the one hand, he is evil to the end, he mercilessly kills the old man who prays to the Buddha for whom he despises, he takes away the virginity of his opponent's wife before dueling but breaks his promise to kill the other party with a wooden sword during the competition, but because of his paranoid evil, he also gives birth to a sense of tragedy that is simple to the extreme. This devil, determined to confront the world with his genius, gradually came to the end of madness. Toshiro Mifune plays the role of Kendo grandmaster Toranosuke Shimada in the film, and his students refuse his friend's suggestion to use a musket on the way to take revenge on Ryunosuke, but at this time Ryunosuke has been betrayed by the Shinsengumi, and he meets the granddaughter of the old man killed by the Great Bodhisattva Ridge, so that he suddenly has a big demon and cannot see, at this time the fire ignites, dozens of swordsmen besieged him, and on a surreal stage, the sword demon who finally defeated fear staged his dance of death.

2. Seppuku 1962 Director: Masaki Kobayashi Rating: 9.6
Masaki Kobayashi's film is unique in form, similar to Rashomon's, spelling together a complete story with the narration of several people, reflecting on Bushido's position of putting dignity above life. The audience begins with a story of a rogue samurai who cheats under the guise of seppuku and ends with a family tragedy. Tatsuya Nakadai's Tsukumo Hanshiro becomes the deepest tragic character in Japanese samurai films, his behavior after losing his entire family, after performing this character's thoughts, he has nothing to worry about, abandoning his life to question the cruelty and hypocrisy of the entire system and culture, after the Ii family finally transferred the musket team, Tsukumo did not want to die under the gun, and died by seppuku before the musketeers shot. Tsuyun's death is not revenge, but death to fight the injustice of the whole world, and he exposes the hypocrisy of Bushido's so-called dignity over life, which actually belongs to director Masaki Kobayashi. Although the proposition is large, Masaki Kobayashi's perspective belongs to the individual, and he often leads the audience to experience a tragic story as an individual, which makes his films full of emotional power.

3. Deadly Sword 1967 Director: Masaki Kobayashi Rating: 9.6
Masaki Kobayashi's samurai films pay more attention to the existence and emotions of individuals, although they are samurai films, they are always criticizing the anti-human part of Bushido, as well as the darkness of the system, and his films also sacrifice their lives for the ideal, but this ideal is not some kind of empty idea, and the foolishness emphasized by Bushido is even more disgusted in this film. Tsukumo Hanshiro in "Seppuku is bitter by the tragic death of his son-in-law and daughter, and goes to suicide alone to take revenge, while in "Sword of Life", it is love and personal dignity that is defended by death. Toshiro Mifune plays a samurai who entered a famous family, endured humiliation and burden all his life, but in the end he was moved by his son's love, fought against the system alone to protect his wife and dignity, and finally died under the musket array. This movie shows us that the Japanese tradition is to admire those who strive for the right goal and ultimately fail. On the contrary, those who achieve success by any means are despicable (such as in Japanese director Yajun Sato's "Dunhuang" filmed in China, the vile Li Yuanhao mocks the rebels with contempt: "It will not be you who can make a name in history"). If a nation takes success and victory as the only criterion for judging its values, it is degenerate and incorrigible.
4. Ronin 1990 Kazuo Kuroki Rating: 9.5
The theme of this film is similar to "Seven Samurai", which can also be said to tell the story of the samurai ronin who has lost his purpose and survival value, and finally regains the dignity of life in battle. However, the expression of "Seven Samurai" is metaphysical and more symbolic, while "Ronin Street" is more emotionally tense and closer to the perspective of ordinary people, compared with Kurosawa's Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, as Dostoevsky is to Tolstoy. This film is a remake of the classic of Makino Province III, the background is the end of the scene, the protagonists of the film are four muddled and rogue ronin, their ronin street, prostitutes are constantly killed by their superior samurai who despise them, when the last prostitute Ashin, who was loved by the ronin, assassinated the samurai unsuccessfully and was tied up in the woods, the four finally awakened their deep dignity and blood, and successively killed the woods desperately, and there were more than a hundred superior samurai waiting for them. The last hundred people slashed the big battle, especially the mother's combination knife method, every time you cut a person with a knife, you must return the knife into the sheath, and the next time you come out of the knife, it will be five steps of blood spatter.

5. Piercing Sword 1962 Director: Akira Kurosawa Rating: 9.5
Kurosawa's entertainment samurai film is not as heavy and sad as "Seven Samurai", but it can be said to be one of the most exciting and viewing films in Japanese samurai films. The success of the film lies in the fact that Toshiro Mifune portrays a samurai who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, but in fact wise and brave, this wandering samurai accidentally sees a group of young and upright samurai being surrounded and annihilated while resting in the broken temple, so he intervenes to save them. At the behof the samurai, he helped them under the pseudonym Tsubaki Jujuro, and in the face of repeated bad things of these young people, Kushijuro finally came up with wisdom and finally defeated the corrupt family elder. And the whole undulating story in front seems to be to set off the last scene that Kurosawa will film: the old master's bodyguard, Muroto played by Tatsuya Nakadai, catches up with Tsubaki Jujuro and asks to duel with him. The two confronted each other for a minute, then suddenly drew their knife, and between the electric light and flint, the roommate sprayed blood for five seconds, and fell to the ground and died. This momentary duel has been replayed in slow motion by fans for many years to study its magic. After killing his opponent, Tsubaki Sanjuro sighed and said, "He, like me, is a knife without a sheath, and a good knife should not be without a sheath, and you should all put the knife in the sheath." ”

6. Twilight Kiyobei 2002 Director: Yoji Yamada Rating: 9.4
Yoji Yamada, whose works are well known to Chinese audiences, has simple film techniques, real characters, simple stories, and moving emotions, all of which make the samurai trilogy he shot in his later years the most emotionally tense samurai film after Masaki Kobayashi. "Dusk Kiyobei" made the genre of samurai films once again attract the attention of the world, Sanada Hiroyuki portrayed Dusk Kiyobei became an unforgettable movie image, in the movie in order to show the real samurai life state, on the eve of Kiyobei going to the duel, Kiyobei, who was consumed by poor life, re-swung his sword to restore speed, during the duel, Sanada Hiroyuki used a wooden stick against the real sword, using a long shot to show the realism of the duel, and the tricks of the small tai sword are like the so-called "one inch short and one inch dangerous" in Chinese martial arts. And Yu Wu Zen Youemon, who was the opponent of Kiyobei in the end, although he only made his last appearance, was as impressive as a glimpse, he had already seen that the situation was about to change, saw that the era of samurai was over, and begged Kiyobei to spare himself, hoping to avoid waiting for the world to change. However, when he mistakenly thought that Kiyobei was going to use a wooden sword against him, he fought a duel with Kiyobei because of a self-esteem attack, and as a result, the long knife hit the beam indoors, and he was beheaded. This most sober person still can't get rid of the fate imposed by his samurai identity.

7. Shogunate 1989 Director: Yasuo Descending Flag Rating: 9.4
A movie that is very fateful with Chinese audiences, first of all, his martial arts style is half Hong Kong and half a day, which can be called a Sino-Japanese martial arts exchange meeting, both Tetsuro Tanba and Ogata Ken as representatives of the fierce and concise Japanese-style sword fighting, one hit must kill, but also the whimsical style of Hong Kong-style martial arts films, full of tricks, and some scenes are even quite "undefeated in the East". It can be seen in the film that martial artists from China are used, many of the tricks are by no means Japanese, and the deadly spirit of many stuntmen in the film is also amazing in Hong Kong films, and the most eye-catching is Hu Jianqiang, who is famous in Japan for "Shaolin Temple", in which he performed a series of kung fu such as drunken fist drunken stick flying and grabbing three sticks, and his beautiful and fancy kung fu and the martial arts style of the whole film actually complement it (but due to the language barrier, you can only play a mute). Moreover, this film has been dubbed into China, and there is a full audience. This film is a Jin Yong-style historical romance film, telling the story of General Tokugawa Iemitsu's intention to get rid of his unhappy eldest son, and the many famous soldiers led by the Criminal Department rebelled against the general, escorted the young master to Edo, and finally chased and killed by 5,000 soldiers and horses, most of them died bravely. The whole battle royale process is shot magnificently and excitingly.

8. Royal Gold 1969 Director: Five Society Heroes Rating: 9.3
The samurai film classics starring Tatsushi Nakadai, especially the martial arts scenes, are very interesting, such as Wakisaka Sun Bei played by Tatsuya Nakadai, when he first encountered a siege, he responded with a peculiar sword technique, when facing the enemy, both hands held the sword handle in both hands for defense, the forehand sword and the distance, the backhand sword and the close, showing the grace of a swordsmanship grandmaster. In the end, he fought with a knife in the snow, and the drums of the Japanese folk assembly before the duel set off the atmosphere of the mountains and rain, Sun Bingwei kept breathing into his hand in order not to freeze in the snow, and the knife directly brought a torch of a roaster to the duel—these are all impossible details in Chinese martial arts films. In the end, Sun Bingwei plunged the knife into the snow, and when the opponent attacked, he launched a counterattack to hit the opponent, which is consistent with the wave breaking knife of the Water Gull faction who worshipped the sword, and used the snow to cover the trajectory of the knife, and the master duel, the victory and defeat are only a split second.


9. Must Kill 4 1987 Director: Shinji Fukasaku Rating: 9.2
Although Sanada Hiroyuki mostly stays on the image of "Captain Sanada" in the impression of Chinese audiences, in fact, Sanada Hiroyuki can be said to inherit the mantle of actors of the generation of Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, and Katsu Shintaro, and one of the most martial arts actors in Japan after 60s. He performed the small tai knife with a long shot in "Dusk Qingbei", and in "Must Kill 4", his action of playing with the knife at the age of less than thirty can be said to make people drink good wine, "every time he cuts a person, the joy is thunderous", without relying on montage to create a wonderful martial arts effect In Japanese films, Sanada Hiroyuki purely performs gorgeous and deadly effects with his own watch, which is amazing, and the film finally arranges for him to be killed by a musket, probably such a martial art is really unbeatable. Shinji Fukasaku's film has many characters like his gangster films, but the image is very plump. It is very moving that several bounty killers finally die for righteousness, and the use of various Qimen weapons is shown in the film, and one of the acrobatic swordsmen is quite similar to the rope in "Sword Rain". The film also incorporates a lot of music and form from Italian Westerns.

10. Obiko Wolf Yu 1972 Director: Kenji Misumi Rating: 9.2
This series of films portrays the unforgettable image of the executioner worshipping a knife, an executioner who kills for a profession, but builds a Buddhist hall for his own soul who died under his own sword. When he is eventually framed and can only take the orphan on a dangerous escape, he lets the casual child choose between a leather ball and a katana, and if he chooses a leather ball, he kills it, and when the child chooses a katana, he exudes irrepressible joy. The story of this film is very interesting, and the martial arts are also quite exciting, from the beginning of Bai Yidao's escape, killing the opponent with a blow of the water gull faction wave breaking knife, to the final fight with the gangsters, the wooden stick of the cart is removed, combined into a long handle "chopping knife", the long knife is like chopping melons and cutting vegetables, more than a dozen bandits holding the tai knife, which is a rare hearty martial arts in Japanese movies.
11. Genroku Tadatozo 1941 Director: Kenji Mizoguchi Rating: 9.2
The Tadamizo story is the most widely spread samurai story in Japan, and it is also the story that best represents the "beauty of bushido" in the minds of the Japanese. There are many film versions of this theme, among which it is considered to be the best Mizoguchi version, which uses a length longer than "Seven Samurai", almost four hours to tell the ins and outs of this revenge story, but there are very few action scenes, and the scene of the siege of Kirafu by the forty-seven soldiers who are the biggest selling point is actually explained in the way that the first lord's wife reads the letter. Unlike Kurosawa's Western-style dramatic conflict, Mizoguchi's work is full of oriental aesthetics, the picture often opens from left to right like a scroll, and the close-up of the characters never appears, making it an unusually elegant and calm group portrait work.
12. Akaho Castle Extinction 1978 Director: Shinji Fukasaku Rating: 9.2
is also the story of Tadatozo, Fukasaku Shin's second version and Mizoguchi version go to two extremes, Mizoguchi's version is subtle and introverted, and Fukasaku Shin's second version is bloody, from the bloody battle of the forty-seven warriors to besiege Kirafu, to the impassioned speech made by Dashi after the final forty-seven people cut their abdomen, inciting to the extreme, of course, it can be said another way: this film is full of fascist violent aesthetic characteristics.
13. The Great Killing Formation 1964 Director: Eiichi Kudo Rating: 9.1
The killing array of this movie has no beautiful movements, no well-designed moves, some are just beast-like fights, tens of minutes and hundreds of people fight, although they are all katanas, but they seem to be groups of beasts, tearing with teeth and claws, especially the long-term use of hand-held photography to shoot the final massacre, so that the audience has an immersive sense of reality. The story clues of "The Great Killing Array" are complex, political persecution and counter-persecution in troubled times, there are many characters, but they are all successfully shaped, showing the pathos of small people in the big era, and the whole film is full of despair.
14. Cicada Time Rain 2005 Director: Three Men Kurotsuchi Rating: 9.1
A rather embarrassing love movie of the samurai era, his father was ordered to seppuku, and Bunshiro, who grew up as an orphan, was only taken care of by his childhood sweetheart since he was a child, but was taken away by his parents when he was a teenager. When he grew up, Bunshiro became a samurai, and Koshiro became the side room of the lord. When Kofu is drawn into the vortex of political struggle, Bunshiro must save his lover. The martial arts of this film is very interesting to the performance of "restraining the heart demons", Bunshiro and his friends brought more than a dozen knives and stuck them in the ground when facing the enemy, learning the deeds of a generation of sword hero general Ashikaga Yoshiki, and finally hitting the opponent with a backhand knife with his eyes closed, which is a god stroke in samurai films.
15. The Legend of Yoshiji Mibu 2003 Director: Yojiro Takida Rating: 9.1
With the famous Saito Ichinoguchi of the Shinsengumi at the end of the scene, it tells the story of the little-known swordsman Kenichiro Yoshimura, a man who endured humiliation and bore the burden of humiliation for his family, dressed as a clown, but when the Shinsengumi was defeated, he rushed alone to the musket array of the Emperor's army for responsibility and honor. Yoshimura's personal tragedy also represents the sympathy and commemoration of the Shinsengumi who "moved against the tide of history" in Japan, and is also a sad song of the times witnessed by a small person.
16. Human Chopping 1969 Director: Five Society Heroes Rating: 9.1
Katsu Shintaro shows superb acting skills in this film, overshadowing Tatsuya Nakadai, who plays a real character, because he killed so many people, that Okada Yizo, known as the "executioner", is extremely layered and tragic. Legendary writer Yukio Mishima played the cold outside and hot inside, a cool to the end of the downfall killer Tanaka Shinbei, when he was finally wronged, he suddenly came to a beautiful seppuku hand, this unexpected action seems to be a preview of Mishima's ending a year later, in 1970, he led the team to launch a mutiny, gave a speech to the Self-Defense Forces "The Japanese are rich, but mentally empty, you know", was ridiculed by the Self-Defense Forces and committed suicide by seppuku , it seems that Mishima is indeed playing a samurai to the point that he can't live without crazy demons.
17. Zatoichi Monogatari 1962 Director: Kenji Misumi Rating: 9.1
In Japan, Zato's household name status is similar to China's Huang Fei Hung, and Katsu Shintaro is the inseparable Kwan Dexing and Jet Li of Zato. He portrayed simplicity, humility, and wit, but also for justice, for the weak, and even for the sacrifice of himself. Among the realistic Japanese samurai films, the Zatou series is undoubtedly a very exaggerated surreal movie, but as many Hong Kong filmmakers have commented on Wong Fei Hung, it can also be said that Zatou City represents an immortal spirit. And all this started with "Zatoichi Monogatari".

18. Shu Xue Luoji 1973 Director: Toshihachi Fujita Rating: 9.0
A freehand film that is rare in Japanese samurai films, the whole film is more like a martial arts fable. This cruel revenge story tells the story of a woman whose whole family was killed and sentenced to life imprisonment, after hopeless revenge, she seduced a man in prison to give birth to a daughter to avenge herself and her husband, the girl who gave birth is Shura Xueji, the role played by Liu Yuling in "Kill Bill" is actually her, in the movie she and Uma Thurman's snow katana duel, is also the scene and music of the final ending of Shura Xueji. The story of the movie takes place after the Meiji Restoration, and the martial arts romance story is extremely manga color.
19. The Conspiracy of the Yanagi Clan 1978 Director: Shinji Fukasaku Rating: 8.9
Fukasaku Shinji's epic samurai film set against the backdrop of a shogunate palace coup tells the story of a series of bloody killings triggered by Tokugawa Iemitsu's succession to the throne. The atmosphere of Fukasaku Shin's second shot is cruel and exciting, and the action is intense and exciting. In particular, the two sides of the wrestling forces used various political means to drive the lower-class samurai to shed blood for them, which can be said to be the costume version of "The Battle of Injustice", and Shinji Fukasaku is indeed a master of describing characters and politics.
20. Revenge 1964 Director: Masa Imai Rating: 8.9
Very sophisticated revenge story, full of dramatic tension. The ending of "Dusk Kiyobei" may have come from the original, and in the end, the big boss played by Tetsuro Tanba had already beaten Shinhachi to the ground to find teeth, but the last knife was accidentally hit by Matsuchi and was defeated by the other party. The final killing array is a bit like the end of Masaki Kobayashi's "Seppuku ", with a crowd of enemies, and finally a tragic death.

21. Heart Stick 1961 Director: Akira Kurosawa Rating: 8.9
The original version of Eastwood's "Red Dead Redemption", Kurosawa was originally a fan of John Ford, this film is quite a western, but in the end it was transfused to the western again, which can be said to be a good story. Toshiro Mifune plays a warrior who plays cards unreasonably, encounters two gangsters fighting in the town, the people suffer, Mifune shows his martial skills, causing both sides to compete for hire, and in the end, both sides are eliminated under his scheme.

22. Ghost Dog Killer 1999 Director: Jim Jamusch Rating: 8.8
This killer film shot by Jim Jamush, whose protagonist is an old black who believes in bushido, finally creates an indescribable sense of tragedy. This killer like Leon, while his companions were happy to rap in the streets, he was willing to die at the hands of his unworthy master because of his bushido spirit. The little girl who likes to read Rashomon and Bushido books represents the inheritance of the ghost dog, and the film does not celebrate this culture, but symbolically expresses the sadness of some rebels who move against the trend in a materialistic world.
23. Thirteen Assassins 1963 Director: Eiichi Kudo Rating: 8.8
The original version of Takashi Miike's remake is one of the first samurai films to depict heroes. The story is the same as the Miike version, but the martial arts pursuit realism, the thirteen assassins dealt with only fifty-three lord guards, in order to enhance the realism of the melee, the final battle was shot with a large number of hand-held cameras like "The Great Killing Formation".
24. Hidden Sword Ghost Claw 2004 Director: Yoji Yamada Rating: 8.8
In Yoji Yamada's samurai trilogy, the one that describes swordsmanship is more mysterious, which is also the era of Westernization and transformation of Japan at the end of the shogunate and the decline of samurai, and finally the boss was also first slashed by Sozo, and then his arm was broken by a musket. This film also has the emotional story of ordinary people, the film is very interesting to the performance of the two skills of "hidden sword" and "ghost claw", and finally the protagonist Zongzang is unequal to a woman who was deceived by the lord, and stabbed the lord to death with a "hidden sword".
25. Makai Reincarnation 1981 Director: Shinji Fukasaku Rating: 8.8
Adapted from the work of Yamada Futaro, the historical background is the uprising of Christian believers led by the suppression of Amakusa Shiro Tozada (yes, the big boss of "True Shodown Soul") during the Tokugawa Iemitsu period, telling the story of Amakusa's reincarnation after his death and leading Miyamoto Musashi and other sword heroes to return, trying to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, but defeated by Yanagi Jubei (another Samurai Samurai figure) and others, although it is a magic film, but the martial arts are not as gorgeous as the later remake, but a one-hit kill biased towards traditional Japanese sword fighting. The enchanting female ghost played by Kana Akiko in the film is also impressive.
26. Assassination 1964 Director: Masahiro Shinoda Rating: 8.8
The samurai story set in the background of the assassination at the end of the scene, telling the story of idealists who are paranoid for ideals, the film has a complex structure and many characters, which is a classic of samurai film narrative skills. It shows the same historical event as "Waiting" and other films, but the methods are completely different and more popular.
27. Miyamoto Musashi Trilogy 1954 Director: Hiroshi Inagaki Rating: 8.8
Inagaki's trilogy is shot in a neutral and elegant way, as Miyamoto's monk mentor in the film gave him: "Both culture and martial arts, the square is the right way" (this point is also the difference between Japanese samurai culture and Chinese culture, Chinese scribes and samurai are separated, while Japan inherits the characteristics of China before the Han Dynasty, culture and martial arts are not separated, Miyamoto Musashi is a representative figure). And the story of the film is also quite attractive, the first episode sets off the sinking of Musashi's friend and eight to set off Geng Nao's Musashi, and the third episode decisive battle Iwanyu Island was filmed with quite a fantastic effect.
28. The Attendant of Three Horses 1964 Director: Hero of the Five Societies Rating: 8.7
Zhang Che remakes the original version of the movie "Three Heroes of Border City". Three samurai, Shiba, the great of chivalry. Such as Tsubaki Sanjuro. Sakura, a joyful character, optimist, and casual in everything, like Heihachi in "Seven Samurai". Kikyo's character is the most special, he is cynical, ridicules Chai's ideal, "You think you can change the world", but his heart is full of justice, but the world is disappointed, but in the end he is moved by Chai and joins the side of the peasants. The last three people walked on the road, covered by yellow sand, "three samurai walking on the road". And the road, there is no end.

29. Samurai Imagination 1998 Director: Hiroyuki Nakano Rating: 8.7
A very postmodern samurai film with rock 'n' roll music, camera movement and actors acting like cartoons. The silhouette sword fight scene on a red background in "Kill Bill", that is, COPY from the beginning of the film. The three protagonists of the film are a noble fool young master, an arrogant low-level samurai, and a comic and humble swordsmanship master. After the spoof throughout the text, the protagonist realizes the truth that "by abandoning selfishness and bigotry, people can approach God and receive love".
30. Tange Zuozen: Feiyanju Heji 1966 Director: Five Society Heroes Rating: 8.7
Tange Zuo Zen is a classic character in Japanese samurai films with the same name as Zatou City, one-eyed and one-armed, good and evil, I don't know how many versions have been filmed, of which starring Nishinosuke Nakamura, directed by the heroes of the Five Societies, this film is one of the masterpieces worth watching. Several action scenes are simple and beautiful.
31. Acolyte 1965 Director: Kihachi Okamoto Rating: 8.7
The story of Oedipus in Japanese samurai films, Toshiro Mifune played by the ronin at the end of the scene, is an illegitimate son who does not know whose biological father is, and finally participates in the overshadow assassination in order to get ahead and pursue love, and the person killed finally reveals that it is his father, the film makes a Greek tragic taste, the protagonist's behavior is like Oedipus, breaking through many obstacles and rushing to the final tragic ending, in the final snow, a tragic tragedy of the murder of the father is performed.
32. Sengoku Hero 1958 Director: Akira Kurosawa Rating: 8.7
Kurosawa's Sengoku Samurai entertainment film, the plot design is humorous and tense, Toshiro Mifune plays the wise and courageous Akizuki Kuni general in the film, but the most famous image of the film is the comedy image of two trivial farmers, one tall, thin and one short, who later turned into C3PO and R2D2 in Lucas's "Star Wars" series.
33. Stepping on the Tiger Tail 1952 Director: Akira Kurosawa Rating: 8.7
Kurosawa's entertainment samurai film, telling the story of a retainer of a fallen lord in the Warring States period disguised as a monk to escort the lord out of the customs, there are no fight scenes in the film, but the script is very solidly written, and several scenes of wits and courage with Ichiro Sugai, who plays the head of the level, really make the audience also have a sense of thrill like stepping on a tiger's tail.
34. Mihodo 1999 Director: Nagisa Oshima Rating: 8.6
Nagisa Oshima's gay samurai film classic, it is worth mentioning that the sword fight scenes in the film, especially the competition in the dojo, are real and wonderful, very interesting, and Takeshi Kitano, who starred in the film, also performed a very dashing sword technique.
35. Sword of the Beast 1965 Heroes of the Five Societies Rating: 8.6
The title of the film is very desperate, referring to the transformation of man into a beast, and the protagonist of the film "This is the slaughterhouse!" "A metaphor for this cruel world. But man did not become a beast after all, began to cynical villain protagonist, but finally awakened a sense of justice, to save the people who hunted him, this film is actually about the oppression of the system on the individual, and the latter's resistance, the film is beautiful in picture and smooth scheduling, it is a masterpiece in black and white samurai movies.
36. Thirteen Assassins 2010 Director: Takashi Miike Rating: 8.5
Once known for his bloody perversion, Miike Takashi has become more and more righteous and awe-inspiring in recent years, "Thirteen Assassins" tells the story of thirteen warriors who fought bloody battles with a demon lord in order to eradicate it and eventually died together, half of the film is spent fighting, and Miike-style demons also appear just right, such as the woman whose tongue was cut off with imperfect limbs, which made her blood boil when she wrote "all executions" in her mouth when it was later taken out as an order by the leader of the righteousness.
37. Sarutobi Sasuke 1965 Director: Masahiro Shinoda Rating: 8.4
At the beginning of the 17th century, Japanese spy war films and suspense films, describing the story of the legendary ninja ape flying Sasuke, the film is very good at using light and shadow, lenses, etc. to create a killing array atmosphere, with fictional realism, Miyamoto Musashi's creation of the second knife flow knife method has been shown many times in the film, but unfortunately the killing array design is relatively general, Chinese well-known right-wing writer politician Shintaro Ishigen starred in the film as Mist Hidden Caizang, the finale appeared
38. Yugetsu Monogatari 1953 Director: Kenji Mizoguchi Rating: 8.4
An anti-bushido comedy about a Don Quixote-style Japanese peasant who wants to become a samurai, but finally collapses and abducts to achieve his goal, but the result is that his wife is separated, and he finally wakes up. This film has anti-war sentiment under the supervision of the US military after the war, and it seems that it can also be regarded as a fable of Japan's exhaustive military force that eventually suffered a lot.
39. Makai Reincarnation 2003 Yukihide Hirayama Rating: 8.0
There are many absurd places, but the wonderful places are also wonderful, the martial arts are good, but the most profound is that the demon world tempts the world with perfection, such as the gentleman who worships the Buddha, in order to kill the Buddha to the perfect realm of gun skills, "for this gun, I am willing to go to hell", this is the mind of the real artist, such as "Black Swan", in order to achieve the highest state of art, not hesitate to enter the magic path for the ideal. There are also martial artists who have served the powerful all their lives, and before they died, they awakened their dream of becoming the number one in swordsmanship, which is actually extremely profound.