 | Akira Kurosawa - 4 Samurai Classics (Seven Samurai / The Hidden Fortress / Yojimbo / Sanjuro) - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $64.75 I put this boxed set on here because all of the movies in it are must haves. This is a great foundation to any samurai movie collection.
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 | Red Beard - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $16.48 Toshiro Mifune kicks butt as a samurai doctor with a tender heart and Jujitsu Chop!
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 | Rashomon - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $14.42 Awesome samurai crime drama! Check this out and it'll make you smarter. You'll be able to say things like "the discreprancies in witness' acounts were most likely due to the Roshomon phenomenon."
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 | Rebel Samurai - Sixties Swordplay Classics (Criterion Collection)
Buy new: $89.99 / Used from: $49.50 This is another great "must-have" boxed set. If you have this and the Kurosawa boxed set, you can tell all your friends about your "extensive" samurai movie collection.
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 | The Sword of Doom - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $23.49 / Used from: $12.95 Dark, moody, psychological samura thriller. Lots of blood spraying all over rice paper walls...
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 | Harakiri - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $22.47 Classic tale of revenge. Tear jerker with a final payoff of flying body parts and blood sprays.
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 | Samurai Assassin
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $12.99 Personal favorite. Tragic tale starring Toshiro Mifune. Based on true events, this movie has some great cinematography. Definitely pick it up.
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 | Lone Wolf and Cub Box Set
Buy new: $101.49 / Used from: $69.96 6 disk boxed set of Lone Wolf and Cub series. Great 70's samurai action. Be forwarned the last in the series has skiing ninjas. The first 5 DVDs are awesome though (can be purchased individually)
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 | Samurai Trilogy Box Set - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $62.99 / Used from: $39.59 The film adaptation of Musashi starring Toshiro Mifune. If you're going to sit around and talk samuari movies, you're going to have to know how to talk about Musashi. This boxed set will help.
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 | Shadow Hunters
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $12.47 Another 70s samurai flick. Feels like a western. Lots of fun but not really a classic.
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 | Echo of Destiny: Shadow Hunters II
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $9.00 Sequal to Shadow Hunters. This movie feels even more like a western. As much fun as the first one but this one has a cannon!
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 | Samurai Banners
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.93 Toshiro Mifune conquering Japan! Forest, Fire, Wind, and Mountain...it's a battlefield philosophy not a funky 70s rock group...
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 | Demon Spies
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.25 Another 70s samurai flick, this one about ninjas. Not as much fun as Shadow Hunters but lots of good killing, nudity and demon masks.
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 | Hanzo the Razor
Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $34.50 O.k. this isn't that good at all. But it pretty much defines the sexploitation genre. Imagine Dirty Harry as a sadistic Edo-period cop...
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 | Sex and Fury
Buy used from: $22.99 This one is right here in the gutter with Honzo the Razor, but maybe it's laying face up instead of face down... Still a lot of fun. Kill Bill could never be this good...
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 | The Warrior
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.87 Not a samurai movie at all. But this is an awesome movie that you've probably missed. Lots of awesome Korean vs. Mongol action. Definitely one of the best movies I've ever seen!
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 | A Film By Hiroyuki Nakano: Samurai Fiction
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $5.93 A modern tale of samurai honor, this movie keeps its tongue firmly planted in it's cheek. It's a lot of fun and you can take a date to it ....really.
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