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97 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
91256 votes

Seven Samurai (1954)

Summary: Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.

Release Date: November 19, 1956

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Hideo Oguni

Runtime: 3 h 27 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Kingsley-International Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Embassy Pictures, Films Incorporated, Janus Films, Landmark Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Cowboy Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 125,000,000

Domestic: $ 318,649

International: $ 27,609

96 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1129449 votes

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Summary: The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Release Date: October 14, 1994

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Writers: Quentin Tarantino

, Roger Avary

Runtime: 2 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, A Band Apart, Jersey Films

Distributor: Fathom Events, Miramax, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Video, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 107,928,762

International: $ 106,000,000

95 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
38457 votes

Ran (1985)

Summary: In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

Release Date: June 01, 1985

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Hideo Oguni

, Masato Ide

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Greenwich Film Productions, Herald Ace, Nippon Herald Films

Distributor: Orion Classics, CBS/Fox, StudioCanal, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures, Wellspring Media

Countries: Japan, France

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 11,500,000

Domestic: $ 4,135,750

International: $ 28,533

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
20221 votes

Throne of Blood (1957)

Summary: A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

Release Date: November 22, 1961

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Hideo Oguni

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Kurosawa Production Co.

Distributor: Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Media Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
10749 votes

The Twilight Samurai (2002)

Summary: As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.

Release Date: November 02, 2002

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Yôji Yamada

Writers: Shûhei Fujisawa

, Yôji Yamada

, Yoshitaka Asama

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

Production: Eisei Gekijo, Hakuhodo, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Nippon Television Network (NTV), Shochiku, Sumitomo Corporation

Distributor: Empire Pictures, Twilight Time

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 559,765

International: $ 6,813,004

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6900 votes

Ugetsu (1953)

Summary: A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Release Date: September 07, 1954

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, War

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Writers: Matsutarô Kawaguchi

, Hisakazu Tsuji

, Akinari Ueda

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei Studios

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 11,197

International: $ 13,762

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1145 votes

A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

Summary: Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.

Release Date: November 25, 2011

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Edward Yang

Writers: Hung Hung

, Mingtang Lai

, Alex Yang

Runtime: 3 h 57 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Yang & His Gang Filmmakers

Country: Taiwan

Language: English

93 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
48284 votes

Rashomon (1950)

Summary: The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Release Date: December 26, 1951

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryûnosuke Akutagawa

, Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei

Distributor: Edward Harrison, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 34,571

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
2093 votes

Sword of the Stranger (2007)

Summary: A swordsman from a strange land is caught in a struggle between morality, righteousness, and devotion as he reluctantly agrees to take a raggedy boy and his dog to a remote, Buddhist temple.

Release Date: February 05, 2009

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Director: Masahiro Andô

Writer: Fumihiko Takayama

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bones

Distributor: Bandai Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
5686 votes

Onibaba (1964)

Summary: Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Release Date: February 04, 1965

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Kaneto Shindô

Writer: Kaneto Shindô

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd.

Distributor: Toho Company, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: English

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1011 votes

Heaven and Earth (1990)

Summary: In 16th century Japan, two samurai engage in massive battles across the countryside, one attempting to conquer and the other attempting to defend his land while repressing his love for a woman after taking a vow of celibacy.

Release Date: February 08, 1991

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Haruki Kadokawa

Writers: Haruki Kadokawa

, Chôgorô Kaionji

, Toshio Kamata

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Haruki Kadokawa Films

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 42,000,000

89 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
86741 votes

Battle Royale (2000)

Summary: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Release Date: December 16, 2000

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Writers: Koushun Takami

, Kenta Fukasaku

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, AM Associates, Fukasaku-gumi, MF Pictures, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Toei Company, WOWOW

Distributor: Anchor Bay Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starmax

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 4,500,000

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
39471 votes

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

Summary: The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.

Release Date: September 06, 2003

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writers: Takeshi Kitano

, Kan Shimozawa

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Asahi National Broadcasting Company, Bandai Visual Company, DENTSU Music And Entertainment, TV Asahi, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co.

Distributor: Miramax, Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 1,118,163

International: $ 33,078,759

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
24047 votes

13 Assassins (2010)

Summary: A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Release Date: September 25, 2010

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Takashi Miike

Writers: Kaneo Ikegami

, Shoichirou Ikemiya

, Daisuke Tengan

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Countries: Japan, United Kingdom

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 802,778

International: $ 17,886,280

87 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
9378 votes

Isle of Dogs (2018)

Summary: Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.

Release Date: April 13, 2018

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Director: Wes Anderson

Writers: Wes Anderson

, Roman Coppola

, Jason Schwartzman

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Studio Babelsberg, Twentieth Century Fox Animation

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Disney+

Countries: United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan

Language: English

Domestic: $ 32,015,231

International: $ 32,641,377

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
12450 votes

Lady Snowblood (1973)

Summary: A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

Release Date: March 22, 1974

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Toshiya Fujita

Writers: Kazuo Kamimura

, Kazuo Koike

, Norio Osada

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.

Distributor: HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
94 votes

Lupin III: The First (2019)

Summary: Lupin III goes on a grand adventure to uncover the secrets of the Bresson Diary, which is tied to the legacy of his famous grandfather.

Release Date: October 18, 2020

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Director: Takashi Yamazaki

Writers: Monkey Punch

, Takashi Yamazaki

, Maurice Leblanc

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Abe Shuji, Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company (CTV), Fukuoka Broadcasting System (FBS), Hiroshima Telecasting (HTV), Marza Animation Planet, Miyagi Television Broadcasting, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company, Shirogumi, Shizuoka Daiichi Television, TMS Entertainment, Toho Company, Video Audio Project (VAP), Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (YTV)

Distributor: GKIDS

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 245,724

International: $ 7,256,886

84 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
11398 votes

Radio Days (1987)

Summary: A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.

Release Date: January 30, 1987

Genre: Comedy

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Image Entertainment, Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,792,779

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
32558003 votes

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

Summary: After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.

Release Date: October 10, 2003

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Writers: Quentin Tarantino

, Uma Thurman

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, A Band Apart, Super Cool ManChu, Shaw Brothers

Distributor: Miramax, Miramax Films, HBO Max, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 70,099,045

International: $ 110,807,031

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
268365 votes

Equilibrium (2002)

Summary: In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state.

Release Date: December 06, 2002

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Kurt Wimmer

Writer: Kurt Wimmer

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dimension Films, Blue Tulip Productions, Dimension Films

Distributor: Miramax, Dimension Films, Dimension Home Video, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,203,794

International: $ 4,164,423

Seven Samurai (1954)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Ran (1985)

Throne of Blood (1957)

The Twilight Samurai (2002)

Ugetsu (1953)

A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

Rashomon (1950)

Sword of the Stranger (2007)

Onibaba (1964)

Heaven and Earth (1990)

Battle Royale (2000)

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

13 Assassins (2010)

Isle of Dogs (2018)

Lady Snowblood (1973)

Lupin III: The First (2019)

Radio Days (1987)

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

Equilibrium (2002)

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