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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005)
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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005)
Original name: Shinobi
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as the leader of the five to represent their respective villages.
Style: exciting, captivating, stylized, serious, anime, inspirational, sincere, surreal, visual, visually stunning
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, ninja, master warrior, tragic love, martial arts, supernatural ability, state affairs, forbidden love, heroes, battles, uninhibited rivalry, supernatural, dishonesty, medieval, love and romance, tribe, elimination, imaginary, japanese history, asian history, superhero, fight, karate, ballet, assassin ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, ancient china, asia
Keyword: fighting movie

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Most similar movies to Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, stylized, exciting and captivating films with plots about martial arts, rivalry, heroes, samurai, medieval, master warrior and escapades mostly in Action, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Shinobi: Heart Under Blade: 47 Ronin (2013), Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Out Live (2000), Mumon: The Land of Stealth (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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47 Ronin (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Hungary
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Based on the original 1941 movie from Japan, and from ancient Japan’s most enduring tale, the epic 3D fantasy-adventure 47 Ronin is born. Keanu Reeves leads the cast as Kai, an outcast who joins Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), the leader of the 47 ...
Style: stylized, epic, exciting, fairy tale, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, martial arts, ronin, medieval, battles, beast, revenge, shogun, exile, samurai sword, sword and sorcery, heroes ...
Time: 18th century, year 2013, middle ages, 2010s
Place: japan, asia, ancient china
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80%
The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom (2014)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the twilight of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial court is plagued by corruption as tyrants rule over the land. With the Manchurians preying on a weakened empire, war is imminent. To save the victims from their suffering, sorceress Jade Raksha ...
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, stylized, tense ...
Plot: martial arts, female warrior, wizards and magicians, tragic love, betrayal, supernatural ability, wuxia, witch, heroes, good versus evil, rivalry, escapades ...
Place: china, ancient china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rurouni Kenshin 3: The Legend Ends (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
Style: exciting, stylized, dorama, anime, manga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, martial arts, samurai era, fight, medieval, good versus evil, heroes, master warrior, battles, showdown, hitman, political unrest ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former ...
Style: serious, stylized, suspenseful, perverse, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, ninja, martial arts, danger, rivalry, superhuman powers, heroic mission, medieval, battles, military, good versus evil, chase ...
Place: japan, ancient china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
Style: epic, atmospheric, colorful, visually stunning, stylized ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: martial arts, sword fight, wuxia, fight, kung fu, sword, master warrior, female martial artist, tough girl, warrior, monastery, heroine ...
Time: 18th century, year 2000, 2000s, 19th century, 17th century ...
Place: china, beijing china, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Former legendary assassin Kenshin Himura has now become a wandering samurai. Offering aid & protecting those in need as atonement for his past deeds. During this time Kenshin Himura comes across and aides Kaoru Kamiya (Emi Takei). Her father ...
Style: exciting, serious, manga, realistic, anime ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, martial arts, master warrior, japanese culture, katana, drifter, swordsman, shogun, heroes, one man army, medieval, fight ...
Time: 1800s, 2010s, 1870s, 1860s, 19th century
Place: japan, asia, ancient china, tokyo, kyoto japan
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100%
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Out Live (2000)
Genre: Drama, Action, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A sweeping, epic tale of a martial arts warrior who attempts to defy a kingdom to be with his love.
Style: suspenseful, stylized, exciting, emotional, epic ...
Plot: martial arts, mongol empire, love triangle, crimes of passion, forbidden love, redemption, uninhibited rivalry, lovers reunited, medieval, true love, karate, sword ...
Time: medieval times, 14th century, middle ages
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Mumon: The Land of Stealth (2017)
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon (Satoshi Ohno, of idol group Arashi) is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychedelic
Plot: ninja, samurai, ninja warrior, sword fight, medieval, warlord, ninja master, assassination plot, warrior, battles, fight for supremacy, gang ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Style: visually stunning, stylized, visual, exciting, epic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: martial arts, sword fight, wuxia, swords and armor, tragic love, warrior, kung fu, love, emperor, medieval, tragic event, resistance ...
Time: middle ages, year 2004, 2000s, 9th century, medieval times ...
Place: china, east asia, asia, ancient china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Goemon (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon (Yosuke Eguchi) in an epic story. One night while looting treasure from Nanban (Southern Barbarians), Goemon finds a mysterious box hidden inside a secret grave. A forgotten relic from the past ...
Style: exciting, captivating, epic, anime, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, samurai, heroes, rich and poor, betrayal, social differences, medieval, battles, rivalry, ninja, robin hood, revenge ...
Time: 15th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Painted Skin (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit that feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely, youthful appearance. When ...
Style: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, supernatural, wuxia, good versus evil, uninhibited rivalry, deadly creature, escapades, medieval, ghost, heroes, dishonesty, supernatural ability ...
Time: middle ages
Place: china, ancient china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Zatoichi: The Last (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, tense ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, homecoming, medieval, forced into action, village, blind man, save the day, protector, murder, danger ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The Sorcerer and the White Snake is an ancient Chinese fable about a woman demon who falls in love with a mortal is brought to life through the latest advances in CGI and action techniques.
Style: serious, stylized, exciting, epic, romantic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, supernatural, kung fu, good versus evil, heroes, escapades, rivalry, fall in love, deadly creature, love, snake woman ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Basilisk (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: The year is 1614 AD. Two warring ninja clans, each supporting a son of Hidetada Tokugawa as the next shogun, send ten representatives each to fight to the death for the possession of a scroll. The prize: the annihilation of the other and the staunch ...
Style: anime, captivating, serious, stylized, manga ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: ninja, battles, heroes, rivalry, escapades, danger, love affair, forbidden love, female ninja, mature, samurai, ninja warrior ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is ...
Style: stylized, anime, intense, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, katana, martial arts, sword fight, survival, medieval, redemption, assassin, good versus evil, ambition, rivalry, political unrest ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: japan, asia, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Sword of Doom (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopathic samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
Style: black and white, visual, cerebral, tense, stylized ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, ninja, medieval, violent, swordplay, vengeance, fencing, japanese history, kung fu, master warrior, sword fight ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1966
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Storm Warriors (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Wind and Cloud find themselves up against a ruthless Japanese warlord intent on invading China.
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, visually stunning, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, supernatural ability, supernatural, master warrior, heroes, good versus evil, friends, battles, medieval, imaginary, partner ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Shogun's Samurai (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother ...
Style: perverse, epic, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: samurai, ninja, martial arts, medieval, japanese history, shogun, asian history, kung fu, rivalry, strong violent content, conspiracy, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
Style: bloody, stylized, talky, manga, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, assassin, samurai, ninja, father son relationship, weapons, drifter, gory, master warrior, fight, warrior ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Ninja Wars (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the insatiably greedy Lord Donjo. Only the ninja Jotaro can stop ...
Style: stylized, serious, grindhouse, splatter
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, medieval, pluto, asian, tough heroes, battles, good versus evil, escapades, heroes, master warrior, clergy ...
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Ninja, a Band of Assassins (1962)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: [Period covered: 1575-1681] Fist film in the Shinobi series starring Raizo Ichikawa. Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan, a young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, jidai geki ...
Plot: ninja, samurai, martial arts, medieval, tokugawa shogunate, swordplay, clan, sword, kung fu, assassination, religions or cults, battles ...
Time: medieval times, 60s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his ...
Style: serious, sentimental, stylized, epic, romantic ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, caste system, feudal japan, vengeance, politics, love and romance, family life, medieval, edo period, ninja, winter ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
Style: bloody, grindhouse, atmospheric, stylized, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, martial arts, master warrior, sword fight, ninja, father son relationship, weapons, ronin, kung fu, fight, gory, martial artist ...
Time: year 1972
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Mushi-Shi: The Movie (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Mushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living things. Most humans are incapable of perceiving Mushi and are oblivious to their existence, but there are a few who possess the ability to see and ...
Style: serious, stylized, exciting, captivating, anime ...
Plot: supernatural, heroes, escapades, danger, battles, plague, infected, supernatural power, superhero, countryside, doctor, healer ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Legend of Eight Samurai (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess ...
Style: serious, dark fantasy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, martial arts, kung fu, zombie, ninja, witch, kaiju, bow and arrow, princess, ancient, giant monster, asian ...
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.
Style: visual, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, samurai, assassin, kung fu, warrior, ancient, swordplay, weapons, ice, snow, cold, revenge ...
Place: japan, antarctic, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This 26th film installment of the Zatoichi series sees Shintaro Katsu return to this classic role after a 10 year hiatus. The blind masseur Ichi gets caught between rival Yakuza clans.
Style: cult classic, tense, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, zatoichi, swordsman, ninja, medieval, yakuza, female nudity, ronin, swordplay, clan, handicapped ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Samurai Spy (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, serious, realistic, exciting
Plot: samurai, ninja, japanese history, medieval, clan, swordplay, martial arts, spy, espionage, heroic mission, hitman, gang ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Samurai Reincarnation (1981)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
Style: perverse, serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: samurai, martial arts, ninja, medieval, deal with the devil, reincarnation, kung fu, dead, tokugawa shogunate, undead, supernatural, master warrior ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Ashura (2005)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not ...
Style: serious, exciting, stylized, suspenseful
Plot: fall in love, rivalry, good versus evil, love and romance, imaginary, haunted by the past, danger, save the world, supernatural, forced into action, martial arts, fight ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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