Best Samurai Movies & TV Series

Looking for the best samurai movies and TV series? These 128 are the highest-rated on 3eyedraven, weighted by vote count so a handful of glowing reviews never beats a proven favourite.

Rurouni Kenshin: The Final 2021 ★ 7.7

Lupin the 3rd 1971 ★ 8.0

Last Samurai Standing 2025 ★ 7.8

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning 2021 ★ 7.7

Onibaba 1964 ★ 7.7

Gintama: The Very Final 2021 ★ 8.2

Lupin the 3rd: Goemon's Blood Spray 2017 ★ 7.8

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno 2014 ★ 7.6

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins 2012 ★ 7.5

The Castle of Cagliostro 1979 ★ 7.5

Sword of the Stranger 2007 ★ 7.6

Shōgun 1980 ★ 7.7

Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo 2026 ★ 9.2

13 Assassins 2010 ★ 7.3

Kuroneko 1968 ★ 7.4

Afro Samurai 2007 ★ 7.3

Zatoichi 2003 ★ 7.2

Yasuke 2021 ★ 7.3

Three Outlaw Samurai 1964 ★ 7.4

Gintama: The Movie 2010 ★ 7.4

Orient 2022 ★ 7.5

The Elusive Samurai 2024 ★ 7.8

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril 1972 ★ 7.3

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 ★ 7.2