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' The Samurai ') is a 1967 neo-noir crime thriller film [7] written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier. A Franco-Italian production, it depicts the intersecting paths of a professional hitman (Delon) trying to find out who hired him for a job and then tried to have ...
The Samurai Trilogy is a film trilogy directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto and Kōji Tsuruta as Kojirō Sasaki. The films are based on Musashi , a novel by Eiji Yoshikawa about the famous duelist and author of The Book of Five Rings .
A samurai film must include samurai warriors, sword fighting and historical setting. Samurai warriors, in film, are differentiated from other warriors by the code of honor, followed to honor the samurai's leader. A samurai must be skilled in warfare and martial arts and ready to defend his honor, even to his death.
Pages in category "1960s samurai films" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto was released in Japan on 26 September 1954 where it was distributed by Toho. [1] It was distributed theatrically in the United States as Samurai (The Legend of Musashi) by Fine Art Films with English-subtitles and English narration on 19 November 1955. [1] [5]
The Last Samurai is a 2003 American [4] epic period action drama film directed and produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan.
The film, intended as a "Magnificent Seven in outer space", [77] [78] is based on the plots of The Magnificent Seven and Seven Samurai. The movie acknowledges its debt to Seven Samurai by calling the protagonist's homeworld Akir and its inhabitants the Akira. Released in 1975 Indian movie Sholay was also inspired from same genre.
The plot revolves around several samurai during a time of change in the ruling and class structures of Japan. The film was written by Yamada with Yoshitaka Asama and, like its predecessor The Twilight Samurai (2002), based on a short story by Shūhei Fujisawa. The soundtrack is an original composition by Isao Tomita.