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Best 1 Kill!
Kill!

1968 Japanese comedy-samurai film directed by Kihachi Okamoto in which a cynical ronin and an aspiring farmer inadvertently find themselves exchanging life ambitions.

2 Hana
Hana

2006 Japanese period film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda about a young samurai living among Edo-era commoners in a tenement while reluctantly fulfilling his duty of vengeance.

3 Ronin Gai
Ronin Gai

1990 Japanese period film directed by Kazuo Kuroki following destitute ronin living as social outcasts in a red-light district during the late Edo period.

4 Samurai Wolf

A 1966 Japanese chambara film directed by Hideo Gosha, following a wandering swordsman and representing Gosha's gritty, character-driven approach to the jidaigeki genre.

5 Samurai Wolf II

A 1967 Japanese chambara sequel directed by Hideo Gosha, continuing the wandering swordsman's story from the first film with the director's characteristic moral ambiguity.

6 Sleepy Eyes of Death: The Chinese Jade

Directed by Kenji Misumi, this 1963 Japanese film is the first installment in the Sleepy Eyes of Death franchise, starring Raizo Ichikawa as a cynical ronin.

7 Sleepy Eyes of Death: Hell Is a Woman

One of the later Daiei Film entries in the Nemuri Kyoshiro series, starring Raizo Ichikawa as the nihilistic half-European ronin who became a major Japanese cinema icon.

8 Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Seduction

Part of the Daiei Film chambara series (1963–1969) starring Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri Kyoshiro, a half-European nihilist ronin known for his signature Full Moon Cut technique.

9 Sleepy Eyes of Death: Full Circle Killing

Daiei Film entry in the Nemuri Kyoshiro series, with Raizo Ichikawa as the brooding half-Portuguese ronin whose stories were adapted from Renzaburo Shibata's popular novels.

10 Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Satan

Chambara entry in the Daiei Film Nemuri Kyoshiro series starring Raizo Ichikawa as the half-European ronin, one of twelve films released between 1963 and 1969.

11 Sleepy Eyes of Death: Mask of the Princess

Daiei Film Nemuri Kyoshiro installment starring Raizo Ichikawa as the brooding half-Portuguese swordsman, part of a popular chambara series produced between 1963 and 1969.

12 Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Adventure

One of twelve Daiei Film chambara installments starring Raizo Ichikawa as the cynical half-European swordsman Nemuri Kyoshiro, adapted from Renzaburo Shibata's novels.

13 Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Fire

Daiei Film production in the long-running Nemuri Kyoshiro series, with Raizo Ichikawa as the nihilistic ronin whose signature Full Moon Cut dispatches enemies in each entry.

14 Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Villainy

Among the final Daiei Film Nemuri Kyoshiro entries, starring Raizo Ichikawa as the iconic half-European ronin in one of his last screen appearances before his 1969 death.

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