Is there any good samurai movies?

Japan’s 15 Best Samurai Movies Of All Time, Ranked (According To Rotten Tomatoes)

  1. 1 Seven Samurai (1954) – 100%
  2. 2 Harakiri (1962) – 100%
  3. 3 Sanjuro (1962) – 100%
  4. 4 Samurai Rebellion (1967) – 100%
  5. 5 Lady Snowblood (1973) – 100%
  6. 6 The Twilight Samurai (2002) – 99%
  7. 7 Throne of Blood (1957) – 98%

What are samurai movies called?

Chanbara (チャンバラ), also commonly spelled “chambara”, meaning “sword fighting” movies, denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to Western and swashbuckler films.

What movies did Seven samurai inspire?

10 Western Films Influenced By Akira Kurosawa’s Movies

  • 3 The Matrix Revolutions.
  • 4 The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers.
  • 5 Biutiful.
  • 6 Django Unchained.
  • 7 Last Man Standing.
  • 8 The Magnificent Seven.
  • 9 A Fistful Of Dollars.
  • 10 A Bug’s Life.

Are Westerns based off samurai?

There’s a long history of Westerns borrowing from samurai cinema and the other way around, with Akira Kurosawa studying the work of John Ford, which in turn led to many of Kurosawa’s movies to be remade as Spaghetti Westerns.

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Did samurai films inspire westerns?

There’s a long history of Westerns borrowing from samurai cinema and the other way around. Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa studied the work of director John Ford, which, in turn, led to many of Kurosawa’s movies to be remade as Spaghetti Westerns.