Best Shogun movies and TV shows

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021)

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Original name: るろうに剣心最終章 The Beginning
Release: 2021
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: samurai, secret, crime boss, bandit, fight, gang, warrior, criminal, battles, crimes, arms dealer, mystery, smuggling, organized crime, gang war, fighting crime, … MOVIE

Blade of the Immortal (2017)

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Original name: 無限の住人
Release: 2017
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan, United Kingdom, South Korea
Duration: 140 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, jidai geki, splatter
Plot: samurai, ronin, shogun, immortality, revenge, katana, martial arts, soldier, one man army, sword fight, orphan… MOVIE

Sekigahara (2017)

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Original name: 関ヶ原
Release: 2017
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: exciting, tense, sentimental, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, jidai geki, based on true events
Plot: japanese history, shogun, female ninja, samurai, ninja, death sentence, employer employee relationship, spy, slavery, … MOVIE

Snow on The Blades (2014)

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Original name: 柘榴坂の仇討
Release: 2014
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan, Cyprus
Duration: 119 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: captivating, entertaining
Plot: murderer, samurai, murder, chase, vengeance, fight, obsession, deception, destiny, security guard, ronin, anger, shogun, grief, anxiety, employer employee relationship, showdown, minister… MOVIE

Unforgiven (2013)

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Original name: 許されざる者
Release: 2013
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious, realistic, jidai geki, contemplative, remake of american film
Plot: samurai, lone wolves, bounty hunter, vengeance, redemption, one last job, human nature… MOVIE

47 Ronin (2013)

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Release: 2013
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, United Kingdom, Japan, Hungary
Duration: 128 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: exciting, stylized, epic, rough, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, dark fantasy, jidai geki, psychotronic
Audience: boys’ night
Plot: samurai, martial arts, shogun, battles, adventure, ronin, master … MOVIE

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)

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Original name: るろうに剣心
Release: 2012
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, tense, captivating
Audience: boys’ night
Plot: samurai, master warrior, drifter, martial arts, heroes, one man army, swordsman, katana, drug lord, mercenary, … MOVIE

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)

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Original name: 一命
Release: 2011
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, United Kingdom
Duration: 128 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: tense, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, talky, stylized, gloomy, jidai geki
Plot: samurai, life is a bitch, vengeance, society, rivalry, down on your luck, loss of son, feudal japan… MOVIE

Horny House of Horror (2010)

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Original name: ファッション・ヘル
Release: 2010
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: tense, humorous, captivating, splatter
Plot: prostitute, brothel, bondage, seduction, trap, castration, sadism, seductive woman, deathtrap, sexual sadism, trapped, sex, erotica, female nudity, prostitution, shogun, katana, acid… MOVIE

13 Assassins (2010)

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Original name: 十三人の刺客
Release: 2010
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, United Kingdom
Duration: 141 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, intense, unusual plot structure, suspense, visually appealing, tense, harsh, atmospheric
Plot: samurai, warrior, samurai sword, massacre, battles, swordsman, duel, sword fight, … MOVIE

The Lady Shogun and Her Men (2010)

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Original name: Ôoku
Release: 2010
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: shogun, epidemic, samurai, matriarchy, harem, palace, romantic rivalry, love, relationships, forbidden love, love triangle, love and romance, love affair, rivalry, social differences, male female relationship… MOVIE

Atsuhime (2008)

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Original name: 篤姫
Release: 2008
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan 🎬 TV show
Style: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
Plot: shogun, princess, politics, historical figure, intrigue, revolution, feudal japan, political intrigue, female protagonist, government, historical character, royal palace, political unrest, palace intrigue, taiga, samurai, edo period
Place: japan… MOVIE

Samurai Resurrection (2003)

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Original name: 魔界転生
Release: 2003
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: scary, exciting, epic, serious, suspenseful, offbeat
Plot: samurai, ghost, battles, shogun, zombie, heroes, supernatural, reincarnation, vengeance, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, adventure, martial arts, escapades… MOVIE

Shogun’s Ninja (1980)

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Original name: 忍者武芸帖百地三太夫
Release: 1980
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, jidai geki
Audience: boys’ night
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, ninja, shogun, ninja master, adventure, samurai, treasure hunt, heroes, military, gang, battles, graphic violence… MOVIE

Shogun (1980)

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Original name: Shōgun
Release: 1980
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 547 min. 🎬 TV show
Style: epic, twists and turns, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, surprise ending, saga,
Plot: samurai, shogun, battles, intrigue, interracial relations, leadership, adventure, heroes, … MOVIE

Shogun (1980)

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Release: 1980
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 159 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, saga
Plot: samurai, feudal japan, politics, battles, shogun, war, survival, adventure, ship, heroes, military, betrayal, emperor, master warrior, interracial … MOVIE

Shogun Assassin (1980)

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Release: 1980
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: stylized, atmospheric, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, splatter
Audience: boys’ night
Plot: ninja, female ninja, samurai, martial arts, shogun, heroes, lone wolves, master warrior, revenge, cult, survival… MOVIE

The Shogun Assassins (1979)

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Original name: 真田幸村の謀略
Release: 1979
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: jidai geki
Plot: martial arts, samurai, magic, drugs, ninja, monkey, assassin, battles, castle, meteorite, ronin, shogun, assassination, battle
Time: 17th century

Story: This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against

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Bandit vs. Samurai Squad (1978)

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Original name: 雲霧仁左衛門
Release: 1978
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 163 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, jidai geki
Plot: adventure, martial arts, samurai, heist, heroes, betrayal, crimes, vengeance, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty, criminal heroes, cons and scams, religions … MOVIE

The Shogun’s Samurai (1978)

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Original name: 柳生一族の陰謀
Release: 1978
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: epic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
Plot: samurai, rivalry, betrayal, conspiracy, strong violent content, political unrest, assassination, dishonesty, state affairs, uninhibited rivalry, ninja, martial … MOVIE

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)

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Original name: 御用牙
Release: 1972
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, offbeat
Plot: samurai, investigation, martial arts, nudity (full frontal – brief), torture, strong sexual content, heroes, crimes, graphic violence, master warrior, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty, … MOVIE

Sword of the Beast (1965)

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Original name: 獣の剣
Release: 1965
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
Plot: martial arts, samurai, betrayal, strangulation, reform, gambling, ronin, beast, vengeance, shogun, heroes, gang, hitman, crimes, graphic violence, master warrior, tragic love… MOVIE