Platform: Netflix
Year: 2021
Chapters: One season, six episodes
Duration: Around 40 or 45 minutes per chapter
Thematic: War Documentaries / History / Violent
Recommended age: For people over 16 years old
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Rurouni Kenshin
One of the great anime classics that we can see on Netflix and one of the samurai series par excellence. Ruroni Kenshin takes us to the Japan of the Meji Era to meet the wanderer Kenshin Himura. Travel from city to city with a single purpose: wants to forget his past as a bloody murderer, as one of the most dangerous in Japan. He travels with his reverse-edged sword, seeks to be anonymous and not stay anywhere but wanders from city to city. But i know he will find a teenage girl, Kamiya Kaouru, who will invite you to stay with her as an instructor of the Kendo dojo that she has inherited from her father. But Kenshin is haunted by ghosts (and the living with a vengeance). A classic that cannot be missing from this list and that was released in 1996 but still today is an excellent option to enjoy with the family.
In addition, Kenshin has a couple of live action movies on Netflix that we can see if we want to also on the streaming platform, although they are criticized by many for not living up to the series.
Platform: Netflix
Year: nineteen ninety six
Episodes: A 94-episode season
Duration: About 23 minutes per chapter
Thematic: Samurais and action
Age: Over 13 years old
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Watch Kenshin the Samurai Warrior – The Beginning on Netflix
Watch Kenshin the Samurai Warrior – The End on Netflix
Samurai 7
A remake or reinvention in anime format of The 7 Samurai by Akira Kurosawa that we can see on Netflix. Around 26 episodes of this TV series that takes us to the village of Kanna in the distant future. The Nobuserie continually threaten the peasants of this town, samurai who are ruined because there are no wars and who must steal to survive. They steal the harvest and terrorize the peoples. But to protect them, they will decide that they will “hire” other samurai to make him face it.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2004
Episodes: One season, 26 episodes
Duration: About 25 minutes
Thematic: Samurai, historical anime
Age: For over twelve years
Yasuke
Yasuke is an anime series available on Netflix if you are looking for cartoon samurai series. He is a boatman. A peaceful boatman with a past: he was known before as the Black Samurai and now he has left the fight behind but your peace plans They change when he must protect a girl with powers. A series based on a character that really existed and one of the best anime series that we can see today on Netflix.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2021
Episodes: One season, six episodes
Duration: About 30 minutes per chapter
Thematic: Fantastic anime, Japanese series
Age: For people over 16 years old
The gourmet samurai
It is not a samurai series as such but a comedy that follows Takeshi, a recently retired man who will show his passion for food here. Based on an eponymous book and manga, only twelve episodes of a miniseries in which Takeshi connects “With the warrior within” trying all kinds of dishes that bring us closer to Japanese culture. A comedy, cooking and warrior miniseries by a man who knows that his retirement will dedicate him to enjoying what he loves most: culinary pleasures. Here there is no action or wars or fights but twelve episodes of twenty minutes in which the protagonist will walk through the city discovering new restaurants. In this discovery of each new restaurant, we also move back in time to find the “samurai” that Takeshi has inside.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2017
Episodes: One season, 12 episodes
Duration: About twenty minutes for each chapter
Thematic: Based on manga / Cooking and culinary experience
Age: For over seven years
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Kingdom
One of the most addictive and popular Korean series on Netflix is Kingdom, a series of samurai and zombies, post-apocalyptic and vintage. A union between Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead that follows the story of the Joseon dynasty. The king has died and in Korea rumors begin about the cause of his death. A plague threatens to spoil everything that surrounds the kingdom and the crown prince will have to find a solution before the zombie apocalypse ends everything. Zombies, power, kings, queens, revenge and betrayal in a palace in which disaster worries in a plot that hooks.
Kingdom is not so much a series of samurai as it is a series of zombies that is committed to a different approach than usual: it is not the citizens who flee and seek to survive but those who command must put an end to this disaster, they have the mission to save His town. Or they will finish them off.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2019
Chapters: Two seasons, twelve episodes
Duration: Between 45 and 60 minutes
Thematic: Zombies, Survival and Apocalypse / Korean Series
Recommended age: For people over 16 years old