Samurai film

/sˈamjʊɹˌaɪ fˈɪlm/

/sˈæmjʊɹˌaɪ fˈɪlm/

Samurai film

a movie genre that features Japanese warriors known as samurai, often set in feudal Japan, and typically involves sword fights, honor codes, and themes of loyalty and sacrifice

Examples

1. "The image of Japan in the West (in the 1980s and early 1990s) was composed of two extremes: that of orientalist feudal, Japan depicted in samurai films with ninjas and sword fights, and that of hyper modern Japan where economic animals are crammed into trains and pump Walkman and Toyota to the world."

2. Unlike Ozu, Kurosawa kept his camera moving, a style he would bring to many of his later samurai films.