Samurai Movies

[Andres]

Well, it's still a long wait for the release of S2TW.

In the meanwhile, I think I'm going to start some samurai movies to get myself in the mood.

I can think of the following movies:

Seven Samurai
Ran
Kagemusha
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Zatoichi (2003)
Azumi I & II

Except for Zatoichi and Azumi, all of them are directed by Akira Kurosawa. I can highly recommend all of those.

Not a movie, but also great to get in the mood: the miniserie Shogun, based on the work of James Clavell with the same title. I saw it in the eighthies when I was still a kid, but it's out on DVD. Great stuff. The book too, btw.

So, do any of you have have some more recommendations?