Top 10 Movie Swordsmen
The latest Three Musketeers film hits theaters this weekend. TIME looks back at cinema's best swashbucklers, samurai and swordsmen/women.
Top 10 Movie Swordsmen
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- Zorro (The Mask of Zorro), 1998
- Maximus (Gladiator), 2000
- Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride), 1987
- Sanjuro (Yojimbo/Sanjuro), 1961/2
- The Bride (Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2), 2003/4
- Zatoichi (The Tale of Zatoichi), 1962
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace), 1999
- Peter Blood (Captain Blood), 1935
- Athos, etc. (The Three Musketeers), 1973
- Yu Shu Lien and Jen Yu (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), 2003