Shichinin no samurai (AKA: Seven Samurai)

IMDB: 8.6/10

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

Jigoku de naze warui (AKA: Why Don't You Play in Hell?)

IMDB: 7.1/10

A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.

Sullivan's Travels

IMDB: 7.9/10

Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

Shin Zatôichi monogatari (AKA: New Tale of Zatoichi)

IMDB: 7.3/10

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.

Shin Zatôichi: Yabure! Tôjin-ken (AKA: Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman)

IMDB: 7.1/10

Two of Japan and China's greatest heroic swordsman find themselves caught in a plot to protect a young child. But will national distrust and simple misunderstanding keep the two kindred spirits apart?

Zatôichi kenka-daiko (AKA: Samaritan Zatoichi)

IMDB: 7.2/10

Zatoichi is tricked by a crime gang into killing a man. Realizing his mistake, he sets out to protect the dead man's sister, who is conflicted in accepting his help.

Zatôichi sekisho-yaburi (AKA: Adventures of Zatoichi)

IMDB: 7.1/10

The blind swordsman tries to locate a girl's missing father.

Zatôichi abare tako (AKA: Zatoichi's Flashing Sword)

IMDB: 7.2/10

After being wounded in a fight, Zatoichi is nursed to health by a young woman and her father. Now indebted to the family, he works to protect their ferry business from local thugs.