I am a sucker for Jidaigeki 時代劇 Movies & Series

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I Have seen a lot over the years some i cant even remember right now, here are the stuff that i found awesome in my memories.

Shinobi no Mono 1960

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Dokugan-ryu Masamune 1987

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Three Outlaw Samurai 1964

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Mute Samurai 1973
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Many more like Zatoichi series, Wolf and A Cub, Kurosawa Collection, Shinsegumi OLD and New series, King of Zipangu there are a lot...
 
Any Kurosawa film is right up my alley, but I gotta bring up Ran (乱):

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What can I say, that hasn't been said before a thousand times? Probably not much. Still iconic, though.
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I really like the aesthethics of these films in general. I know mostly the Akira Kurosawa ones, Seven Samurai is my current favorite. Though my friend has recommended me Ran, which I have yet to watch.
Also, thanks for bringing it up as well! ::biggrin(y)
 
I have an endless list of such movies. I'm a huge fan of flicks featuring martial arts. These are some of my favorite from Japan:
Sword Devil (1965)
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Dojo Challengers the duology (1964)
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Baragaki (2021)
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The Hidden Blade (2004)
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I love jidai-geki, I don’t have the list right now but I’ve seen more than a hundred easily. A combination of living next to an old theatre in Osaka, years of piracy and an autistic special interest in feudal Japan 🤘
Kurosawa was definitely a gateway and easily the most accessible director when I got into Japanese cinema in the early 2000s. Still one of my favorite directors who deserves all the praise he gets and more, but by now I almost have to give his non period pieces like Stray Dog the win by a hair. Do yourselves a favor and check them out, they’re seriously underwatched and underappreciated.

The genre is really endless. A couple of different recommendations that I find worthwhile:
The original castle of owls (on par with the shinobi no mono series)
Hanzo the razor
Twilight Samurai
Inagaki‘s version of the 47 ronin
Sword of doom
Samurai fiction
Blind woman’s curse
Samurai assassin
When the last sword is drawn
The magic serpent (fun cheesy mix of kaiju and samurai movie)
The lone wolf and cub series
The original harakiri
Gohatto
Humanity and paper balloons
17 ninja
Onibaba

There have been a couple decent recent jidaigeki:
Samurai marathon
Mumon land of stealth
The floating castle
Castle under fiery sky
Goemon (very fantastical take on the mythical Goemon but a fun watch)
Snow on the blades
Sanada 10 braves
Killing (not one of tsukamoto‘s best films but a different take on the genre that‘s worth seeing)

Not all of these are chanbara although the term is often incorrectly used interchangeably with jidai-geki
 

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