A sub category of the costume picture is the samurai movie.

'You ever see any of those old samurai movies?'

The owner, Mitsuhiro Minowa, barely has room for another samurai movie.

Several of the characters in Usagi's world are inspired by or make reference to samurai movies.

A number of western movies have re-told the samurai movie in a Western context.

Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies were an inspiration to many Western directors.

Many of the famous samurai movies by Akira Kurosawa take place during this era.

Like westerns, samurai movies are often populated by veterans of civil war who can face death impassively because their defeat is already an accomplished fact.

There he will think about writing a book on Japanese samurai movies.

A tribute to the samurai movies of the 1970's, it won him the Silver Lion for best director in 2003.