Help with good Samurai DVDs.
 

With the new movie out (Last Samurai) im getting more into good samurai movies. I want to pick up some on dvd and am asking you people which ones are worth getting. I do know about the kurosawa films. But are there any other Samurai films I should look into. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Here's a good start list

The Zatoichi films (Animeigo and Home Vision)
Sword of Doom
The 47 Ronin
Samurai Trilogy (Samurai I - III, Criterion)
Lone Wolf and Cub films (Animego, first two are available and more to come)
Shogun (miniseries, questionable at times but worthwhile)

There's a lot more out there but

I'm sure everyone here will suggest many non-region 1 DVDs for you. But I'm assuming you don't have a region free player.

You said you know about all the Kurosawa movies, so I'd suggest the first DVDs you should get are:

Lone Wolf & Cub: Sword Of Vengence

Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

The Samurai Trilogy

Samurai Fiction: 2-Disc set - A bit offbeat but still an excellent film.

And you can never go wrong starting on the Zatoichi series.

If you go to Amazon.com and type in the word "saumrai" in the DVD search box you'll end up with 49 hits. That might be a good place to start. Seems that we are not making too many suggestions for you. I too like the Samurai movies, but I had no idea that there were 49 of them to choose from!!! Good grief! How to choose!

one word Kurosawa

start with
Seven Samurai
Ran
The Hidden Fortress
and just keep going

7 words:

Read the first post in this thread:)