Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

Three Outlaw Samurai
1964
7.4/10

Sex and Fury
1973
6.1/10

The Warrior
2001
6.4/10

Bad City
2022
6.9/10

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973
7.4/10

Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
2013
6.7/10

Blade of the Immortal
2017
6.7/10

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973
7.4/10

Grappler Baki: The Ultimate Fighter
1994
6.7/10

Outrage
2010
6.9/10

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
1972
7.1/10

Gate of Flesh
1964
6.6/10

Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
2020
8.1/10

Revenge of the Ninja
1983
6.3/10

Shogun Assassin
1980
6.9/10

Branded to Kill
1967
7.2/10

Crazy Samurai Musashi
2020
6.0/10

Sonatine
1993
7.5/10

The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain
2008
7.0/10

Miller's Crossing
1990
7.5/10
Pure Race
1995
10/10