Films set in the 1570s

2022 film directed by Ryan Coogler

1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith

is a 1980 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class petty thief who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.

1994 film by Patrice Chéreau

1923 film by Frank Lloyd

2010 film by Bertrand Tavernier

2025 film directed by Alejandro Amenábar

2023 film by Takeshi Kitano

2005 film by Min Joon-ki

2008 film by Antonio del Real

1989 film by Carlos Saura

Kenau is a 2014 Dutch / Hungarian / Belgian action film directed by Maarten Treurniet. The film is inspired by the legendary story of Kenau who led an army of women in the siege of Haarlem by the Spaniards in 1573 during the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain.

1942 film by Corrado D'Errico

1975 film by Vatroslav Mimica