YOJIMBO (1961)
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
KAGEMUSHA (1980)
A petty thief who resembles a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double, but when the warlord dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980)
When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he's ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire...
THE SWORD OF DOOM (1966)
Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.