There are two I tend to use as my game has moved into the Rokugani Equivalent of the Heian Era: Onmyoji (2001) and Onmyoji II (2003). As these two films deal with the more spiritual aspects of Japanese/Rokuganese culture, I find it helps in giving shuganja players some context or ideas for playing a Shugenja

and a list of various movies

Samurai Cinema

Kill!

Samurai Rebellion

Sword Of the Beast

Samurai Spy

Samurai Assassin

Swords Of Vengeance: (The 47 Loyal Ronin)

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi

Gojoe

Samurai Fiction

Red Shadow

The Seven Samurai

Hari Kiri

Zatoichi: The Outlaw

Zatoichi: The Festival of Fire

Zatoichi at Large

Zatoichi In Desperation

Zatoichi’s Conspiracy

Zaotichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

Zatoichi 1: The Tale Of Zatoichi

Zatoichi 2: The Tale Of Zatoichi Continues

Zatoichi 3: New Tale Of Zatoichi

Zatoichi 6: Zatoichi and the Chest Of Gold

Zatoichi 10: Zatoichi’s Revenge

Zatoichi 11: Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

Zatoichi 13: Zatoichi’s Vengeance

Zatoichi 12: Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

Ran

Rashomon

The Hidden Fortress

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Sanjuro

Yojimbo

Kagemusha

Onibaba

Shogun’s Shadow

Throne Of Blood

Aragami: The Raging God Of Battle

The Twilight Samurai

Shikoku

Onmyoji: The Yin-Yang Master

Onmyoji II

Sword of Doom

When the Last Sword is Drawn

Shinsengumi

Sansho The Bailiff

Incident at Blood Pass

Samurai Banners

Red Lion

Goyokin

Baian The Assassin 1-4

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

Shadow Warriors Season 1

Shogun’s Shadow

Shogun’s Ninja

Chushingura

On 2/9/2017 at 4:00 AM, TheWanderingJewels said:

and a list of various movies

Samurai Cinema

LOADS OF SAMURAI MOVIES

Both thank you, and God **** you! I need to go watch this list now!

I actually think the American version of 47 Ronin isn't a bad L5R-ish movie. It has monsters, magic beings and swords etc.... all tied around a Japanese setting.

One can't go wrong with anything in the Criterion Collection. So many good ones. I really like Three Outlaw Samurai. It is a decent morality tale. Yojimbo/Sanjuro have to be my favorites. I wish my budget allowed me to own more, but they are pricey.

I do like The Last Samurai and 47 Ronin. 13 Assassins is also very good.

You can always watch the western remakes of some of them.

A fistful of dollars (Yojimbo)

The magnificient seven (seven samurai)

SEVEN SOULS IN SKULL CASTLE.

I didn't put in caps just to show it's a title, but to show my excitement. :-D Not only is it a fabulous (and fabulously over-the-top) Sengoku-era drama, you can map the characters to L5R factions without even trying. Two Yoritomo brothers, a Kaiu, a Tsi, the widow of a Daidoji Harrier . . . the only real question is which way you want to spin Nobunaga and his followers: 1) what clan did he belong to (there's an argument to be made for both Lion and Scorpion), and 2) were all three of Ranmaru, Sutennosuke, and Tenmao of the same clan, or was he the Shogun or Emerald Champion or whatever and his retainers came from multiple clans?

Seriously, I can't recommend this movie enough.

After all this time, no one has yet to say When the Last Sword is Drawn? It's up on Crunchyroll with subtitles and won the Japanese Academy Award in 2004! It is the ultimate take on Ronin life. It follows the story of one Shinsengumi member, a country samurai/sensei from Nambu who forsakes everything and joins the Shinsengumi just to keep his family fed, from two points of view... his former student/daimyo's son, and Saito Hajime. It tells a haunting story that kicks you right in your feel's nads and refuses to remove the steel toe boot.

I've always been a big fan of Princess Mononoke.

While neither of these are samurai movies, I would recommend "Woochi" and "Kundo." Fun movies with close enough ties to L5R

13 Assassins is always in the first or second slot of my Netflix recently watched list.

On ‎2‎/‎8‎/‎2017 at 8:00 PM, TheWanderingJewels said:

and a list of various movies........

I would have tried to +2 this list somehow just for not including "The Last Samurai"

I do notice it's missing "Heaven and Earth" which is a nice movie to get a feel for large scale samurai warfare.

Pretty much anything by Akira Kurosawa was inspirational when I ran the old RPG.