[NickGrass]

Zatoichi ( Biito Takeshi) is one of my best.
Mibu Gishi den is a story about the Shinsengumi led by Kondo Isami.
You can watch Shinsengumi now on Japanese Television NHk
www.nhk.or.jp

[Liskaspexia]

Yeah,Akira Kurosawa is Great,so as Toshiro Mifune
I also do like Sho Kosugi too.
Anyway,what do you think about the Taiga Drama on NHK television?(Musashi,Shinsengumi)

[toponlinecasinoer]

Samurai:

Lone Wolf and Cub series(all 6 of them).
Kagemusha
Sanjuro
Seven Samurai
Last Samurai(yes...historically inaccurate...but still enjoyable)

Ninja:

Ninja Scroll(anime)
Red Shadow

[Evdokia]

I got this link from a friend, This movie should be out this summer in the U.S.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/zatoichi.html

Rented it last week from block buster. Zatoichi ....he da man!

[russianstallian]

Ninja Hattori-kun!!!!

I wonder who else know about this manga, from Fujio F Fujida, same author as Doraemon. Its anime was on TV in Hong Kong when I was in kindergarten(!), but I can still remember the tune of its theme song (and partially the Cantonese lyrics).

[Cabinanteerip]

'Heaven and Earth' is not a Kurosawa film.

'Heaven and Earth' was made in 1990 and directed by Haruki Kadokawa

[enurihent]

nothing beats the " Kozure Ookami" series...

[Jannet.K]

i like most of Sho kosugi's ninja movies ,Sonny Chiba had some good ones and Michael Dudikoff wasn't bad in American Ninja.
There are too many good samurai movies , especially if you're into shambara (slice n dice) ones so i'll just mention some actors and directors names:Wakayama Tomisaburo (he was a great iaidoka) and his young bro Katsu Shintaro (the raizor and the Zatoichi series...etc, if you pay attention a the end of the credits in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, his name is included in the small homage with other great martial art movies names),Toshiro Mifune ,Tatsuya Nakadai , Misumi Kenji, Ishikawa Raizo ....and many others.
Kurosawa actually hated the shambara movies ,Yojimbo for instance was meant to be a "parody".Kagemusha is my favorite Kurosawa samurai movie .

[Amorsesombabs]

This site has a bunch of Samurai ( & Ninja ) movies.
http://www.ninjadojo.com/ninjadojo.htm

I like "The Sword of Doom" - final scene is just too much to bear - reminds me of myself after hard practice and then sensei says "Kakari - geiko again" !

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[ëàìèíàò]

I would have to say Ninja Scroll, the shurikens were awesome. Also, Duel to the Death was so tacky, I couldn't help but loving it.