Jim Jarmusch

The director Jim Jarmusch proved Don Johnston's worth, with the excellent Ghost Dog way of the Samurai, and is still on watered down form.

Jessy Terrero

Jessy Terrero is a director and producer, known for Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), The Pursuit and Soul Plane (2004).

Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa is the best known to western audiences, and similarly has directed the samurai films best known in the West.

Keishi Ōtomo

Keishi Ōtomo is directing this samurai film starring 22-year-old actor Takeru Satoh ( Kamen Rider Den-O , Rookies, Beck, Ryōmaden ) as the titular character.

Joe Novak

This film is directed by Joe Novak and based on a screenplay by Jonathan Ball (!) and David Navratil called Way of the Samurai.

Guillermo Del Toro

The ghost of the giant Japanese creature is all over the film and thankfully director, Guillermo Del Toro, does not hide from this but Guillermo Del Toro embraces thankfully director.

Dead Man

Following artistic success and critical acclaim in the American independent film community, Dead Man achieved mainstream renown with Dead Man's far-East philosophical crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, shot in Jersey City and starring Forest Whitaker as a young inner-city man who has found purpose for Dead Man's life by unyieldingly conforming it to the Hagakure, an 18th-century philosophy text and training manual for samurai, becoming, as directed, a terrifyingly deadly hit-man for a local mob boss to whom Dead Man may owe a debt, and who then betrays Dead Man .

Takashi Miike

The insanely prolific director Takashi Miike surprised nearly everyone with this masterfully executed samurai film that stands alongside some of Kurosawa’s best.

Yuji Shimomura

The film, directed by Yuji Shimomura, follows a legendary soldier with a mysterious past who now decides to once again unleash Yuji Shimomura's beast inside of Yuji Shimomura to stand up for what Yuji Shimomura cares about.

Caleb Landry Jones

Throughout Caleb Landry Jones's career, Caleb Landry Jones ’s taken on popular film with Caleb Landry Jones's signature deadpan dialogue and traditional staging, most notably with the 2013 vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive and the 1999 mob-meets-ninja mashup, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

famed independent film director Jim Jarmush

Later in the decade, famed independent film director Jim Jarmush wrote the film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai specifically for Whitaker to play the lead.

Kenji Nagasaki

The series was directed by Kenji Nagasaki (Gundam Build Fighters, My Hero Academia) at studio Bones, with Satoshi Ishino (Release the Spyce, A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-) providing character designs.

Akira

Akira Kurosawa is the best known to western audiences, and similarly has directed the samurai films best known in the West.

Michael Dougherty

Michael Dougherty directed the film and featured Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah.

Sadao and the producer

The team from The Samurai were on the job again - the script was by Igami Masaru, the director was Funatoko Sadao and the producer

Edward Zwick, who previously worked with Cruise on 2003's The Last Samurai, and also features Avengers star Cobie Smulders

The film is directed by Edward Zwick, who previously worked with Cruise on 2003's The Last Samurai, and also features Avengers star Cobie Smulders.

Keishi Outomo

Keishi Outomo is directing this samurai film with 22-year-old actor Takeru Satoh as the titular character, while 17-year-old actress Emi Takei plays the heroine Kaoru Kamiya.

Seijun Suzuki

This onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colours got director Seijun Suzuki

Yoji Yamada

Except 3 episodes, the films were directed by Yoji Yamada (the director of “The Twilight Samurai”).