Rurouni Kenshin
Takeru Satoh plays the wandering swordsman across five films, from Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins to Rurouni Kenshin: The Final and Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning.
Masters of the form
The Twilight Samurai, 13 Assassins and Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai carry the great tradition forward.
Epics
Kingdom and its sequels stage the warring states of ancient China on a grand scale. Open Samurai and swordplay.