The best samurai battles in movies

What is your top 10 list of best Samurai battles? We would love to know yours 👇

The Samurai movie "Heaven and Earth" is a really good movie.

All of you must see " Carok "

I have the Criterion Collection for Sanjuro, Yohimbo and Seven Samurai. All classics!

Show the top 5 and more detail on the best fights.

I think the fight between Zatoichi and the Samurai in the snow in "Zatoichi Challenged" is the most stunning sword fight ive seen however i accept it may not be classed as a Samurai film....

you forgot Samurai Hotel

The only problem with this list is that as long as it's honest, it's bound to be heavily dominated by Kurosawa movies with Mifune. The fact that some other scenes made it onto the list is just because better Kurosawa/Mifune scenes were excluded in order to make the list more diverse. Although there are many great samurai movies and battle scenes that are not made by Kurosawa or includes Mifune, any true top 10 list will be completely filled by them before any others make it onto the list.

In Sanjuro, if that guy didn't kill him, the high blood pressure surely would!

Good list. I would have added "When the last sword is drawn" too

Lone wolf and cub was always the best for me.

Sort of doom … but not really …

чушь и сказки

You left out Gohatto also known as Tabu.

Talking too much

Madame Snowblood = Kill Bill.

Great selection of scenes and movies

well, we be sort of cetain Tarantino watched some of these movies.

Yes

Really well done list. My only disagreement is that I think the Sanjuro scene is a little too high on the list (despite my love for the movie). But I'm just stoked that you included it at all. Definitely agree that it's criminally underrated.

Excellent

Ain’t no way you left out rorouni kenshin

Have seen only 3 of them - Lady Snowblood, Ran and 7 Samurais - but in Europe these movies are not exactly "advertised".

More realism there 👍

奇をてらった、最悪の構成。

Excellent 🔥❤️

I like the one with the wind in it

I can't believe there was no mention of Ame Agaru - After the Rain (1999). One of the best samurai movies there is with some good fight scenes.

Luckily people only attack 1 at a time.

Akira Kurosawa 🏆, Toshiro Mifune 🔅

どなたか英語に翻訳願います。日本刀の恐ろしさは、抜き打ちざまに切ってしまうからです。防御が難しい。居合い切りならまばたきで切られます。

私は、隠し剣鬼の爪 をおすすめします。藤沢周平原作の2004年の映画。

- Ame agaru (of the best sword fights i have ever seen)
- Zatoichi

7 samurais the Best got everything !!!

Awesome mentions. What about Roshomon?

As a young boy back in the early 1970s I recall a battle between a sword and a staffwith a big steel ball on top that opened up into a claw that retract... what movie was that?😊😮😅😅

For years I have searched in vain for the name of a samurai movie in which a street battle ends with the protagonist walking past a severed fruit on the ground which he pokes with the tip of his blade, and it falls open. Prior to engaging in that battle, he lured his opponents into a false sense of security by missing cutting that fruit which he tossed into the air to demonstrate his prowess. Thank you.

We just watched Ikiru…not a samurai movie but a masterpiece

Excellent!

What do you mean "no proper conclusion" to Sword of Doom? The conclusion was crystal clear. Living in a nihilistic hell of his own making and doomed to die in lonely, self-hating despair.

I watched my first samurai movie many many decades ago that gave me a deep impression on Japanese martial films.
Two man were fighting and a little boy hug on the older man’s leg handicapping him. The old man seems not to be harming the boy. I think he was the kid’s granddad, and was fighting with the little boy’s father(his son-in-law), who was not taking advantage of his son’s attempt to stop the fighting.
I have always wondered what the name of that film is.

There's a grave omission : Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu)

結局仲代達矢の独壇場だった。

Inagaki’s Samurai Trilogy would deserve a mention. And “Kill!” has some good scenes too.

Without a doubt you missed one of the greatest, Ame Agaru, "After The Rain".
It was written by Kurosawa and directed by his former assistant director of 28 years, Takashi Koizumi, 5 years after Kurosawa's death.

I love the final scene in Throne of Blood. Just the drama and the fearful respect of the foot soldiers as they eventually corner and watch their lord and master Washizu make his last stand. And the shocking end to his life is the final stroke of magical genius that is Kurosawa.