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50 Best Samurai Films of All Time (by Paste Magazine)

WORK IN PROGRESS *

First thoughts: this is a super predictable, obvious list of with the bare minimum of observation or research.

1-3: PRE-MUROMACHI | BEFORE THE 14th CENTURY A.D.
4-10: THE AGE OF CIVIL WAR | 1460s – 1603
11-48: THE EDO PERIOD | ca. 1603 – 1860s
49-61: THE END OF THE SAMURAI | LATE 19th CENTURY

There are 61 entries in the list bc the original list includes trilogies and series counted as single entries. They have been split into individual entries.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/08/the-50-best-samurai-films-of-all-time.html?a=1

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Movies on 50 Best Samurai Films of All Time (by Paste Magazine) List
Title	Director(s)	Year Released	Watched	Viewed On
Assassination	Masahiro Shinoda	1964	No	N/A
Gate of Hell	Teinosuke Kinugasa	1953	No	N/A
Dora-heita	Kon Ichikawa	2000	No	N/A
Goyokin	Hideo Gosha	1969	No	N/A
Samurai Wolf	Hideo Gosha	1966	No	N/A
Chûshingura	Hiroshi Inagaki	1962	No	N/A
When the Last Sword Is Drawn	Yojiro Takita	2003	No	N/A
47 Ronin, The	Kenji Mizoguchi	1941	No	N/A
Heaven and Earth	Haruki Kadokawa	1990	No	N/A
After the Rain	Takashi Koizumi	2000	No	N/A