Movies like The Princess Blade

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The Princess Blade (2001)
 5.6
 3K
The Princess Blade (2001)
Original name: 修羅雪姫
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Yuki is the last surviving royal of the House of Takemikazuchi or Takemikazuchi no Hime (たけみかずち の ひめ), who live in a futuristic post-apocalyptic isolationist world where they use their skills as former Mikado guards to become hired assassins. The wise old sage Kuka, who was once Yuki's mother's bodyguard, gives Yuki information that changes her life—and her destiny. She discovers that Byakurai has a dangerous connection to Yuki. After learning this information she chooses to leave the House of Takemikazuchi. She soon encounters Takashi, leader of the rebel movement, who offers Yuki a chance at revenge—and perhaps love. They soon discover similarities for they are both trying to escape the past to start new lives....
Style: stylized, serious, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, futuristic, thought provoking, brutal, enigmatic, bad ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female warrior, martial arts, vengeance, sword fight, ninja, rebellion, heroic mission, love affair, escapades, rivalry, danger, dystopian future, medieval, dark heroine, samurai, sword, assassin, blood, superhero, fight, rape and revenge, fight club, female hero, female fight, heroes ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia, hong kong, tokyo

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Most similar movies to The Princess Blade

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting and stylized films with plots about martial arts, rivalry, heroes, danger, escapades, deadly and superhero mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like The Princess Blade: Azumi (2003), Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005), Ultraviolet (2006), Lady Snowblood (1973), Saviour of the Soul (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Azumi (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ...
Style: intense, breathtaking, realistic, epic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, samurai, ninja, brutality, gory, good versus evil, vengeance, storytelling, kung fu, sword, heroes, medieval ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, ancient china, asia
⇓ 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%
 4.3
 84K
Ultraviolet (2006)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease, giving them enhanced speed, incredible stamina and acute intelligence. As they are set apart from "normal" and ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, sexy, action packed, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, one woman army, female protagonist, heroic mission, rescue, heroine, cyberpunk, tough heroes, dystopia, chases and races, disease, superhero ...
Time: future, near future, year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 16K
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. ...
Style: grindhouse, suspenseful, bloody, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, martial arts, revenge, prison, childbirth, rape and revenge, murder, female killer, female protagonist, samurai, female assassin, rape ...
Time: 19th century, year 1973, 1800s, 1870s, 1890s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Saviour of the Soul (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman blinds a martial arts master and his pupil vows revenge on her. She is forced to abandon her loved ones without explanation in order to protect them from her ill-intentioned pursuer.
Style: fast, semi serious, stylized, futuristic
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, two worlds meeting, swashbuckler, mistaken identity, working undercover, heroic mission, vengeance, vigilantism, superhero, undercover, criminal's revenge ...
Time: future
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Zebra City 2025 – music echoing across what used to be Tokyo from Zebra Queen marks the start of Zebra Time, a 5 minute window twice a day when the city population is free to commit any crime and the Vengeful Zebra Mini-Skirt Police and masked ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, futuristic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: evil alien, good versus evil, heroes, partner, heroic mission, martial arts, memory loss, imaginary, space and aliens, danger, medieval, unlikely partners ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: asia, japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.6
 1K
Kamui (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: KAMUI is a Ninja on the run from the world of Ninja bound by rules in search of true freedom. However, he is burdened with the fate, where it is not allowed to take the secret of their powers outside of the tribe -- if you are born as Ninja, you ...
Style: exciting, rough, stylized, epic, anime ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, redemption, heroes, rebellion, human spirit, rivalry, tough heroes, on the run, escapades, danger, good versus evil ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.1
 1K
Sky High (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, serious, suspense, detective
Plot: good versus evil, supernatural, investigation, danger, vengeance, ghost, obsession, destiny, murder, devil worship, afterlife, superhero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
44%
The Dragon from Russia (1990)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A former member of a band of criminals known as the 'Eight-Hundred Dragons' is living in fear in Manchuria as the clan does not allow people to leave alive. However, he is eventually tracked down, and kidnapped along with a young ...
Style: fast, stylized, serious, suspenseful, anime
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, superhero, chases and races, heroes, fighting crime, criminal heroes, assassination, assassination attempt, partners against crime, danger, mind game, murder ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, russia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.4
 747
Samurai (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An ageless Demon Warrior is magically impregnated into the womb of a Parisian Kung-Fu Master's girlfriend. But what is the Demon's relationship with a new-release blockbuster fighting game?
Style: exciting, scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: martial arts, rivalry, supernatural, ghost, investigation, danger, samurai, reincarnation, medieval, save the world, heroes, heroic mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, france, paris france, tokyo, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of ...
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, splatter, art house, realistic ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, sexploitation, investigation, tokugawa shogunate, violent, medieval, revenge, superhero, ancient, edo period, torture ...
Time: middle ages
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.1
 607
Yakuza Weapon (2011)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The resulting battle leaves both men severely injured, and Shozo awakens in a mysterious medical facility to ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, vengeance, danger, rivalry, gangster, murder, violence, triad, monster, sexploitation, organized crime, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.0
 14K
Casshern (2004)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people ...
Style: stylized, intense, exciting, suspenseful, cerebral ...
Plot: dystopia, good versus evil, vengeance, mutant, superhero, artificial intelligence, rescue, tragic hero, heroic mission, redemption, laboratory, heroes ...
Time: future, near future, distant future
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate ...
Style: grindhouse, splatter, visual, bloody, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, martial arts, ninja, revenge, kung fu, assassin, breast feeding, violent, weapons, drifter, gory, lone wolves ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.1
 490
The Challenge (2005)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, rivalry, survival, tough heroes, dictator, life is a bitch, danger, one man army, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, folk hero, vigilantism ...
Time: future
Place: berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Kikaider: The Ultimate Human Robot (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The movie is set in the near future, when the “ARK Project” has initiated a program to increase the quality of human life through the peaceful use of robots. Dr. Komyoji, the chief scientist on the project, has developed a process to create a ...
Style: stylized, serious, exciting, touching, futuristic
Plot: good versus evil, rivalry, save the day, friendship, androids and robots, heroes, superhuman powers, escapades, danger, moral dilemma, superhero, transformation ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.2
 843
Ghost Warrior (1984)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When skiers in Japan come across the frozen body of centuries-old samurai warrior Yoshimita, scientists secretly whisk the corpse to a high-tech laboratory in California, where they bring him back to life. But when Yoshimita escapes onto the mean ...
Style: independent film, serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: martial arts, cryogenics, immortal, gang, culture clash, violent content, chases and races, heroes, escapades, rivalry, danger, misfit ...
Time: 1900s, 16th century
Place: usa, japan, los angeles, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master II (2003)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A group of demons in the ancient Japanese capital of Heian is dismembering members of a family of Japanese nobles.
Style: serious, suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural ability, martial arts, exorcism, medieval, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals, vengeance, rivalry, wizards and magicians, heroes, supernatural, kaiju ...
Time: 10th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.
Style: visual, rough, epic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, martial arts, assassin, kung fu, warrior, ninja, fight, superhero, ancient, swordplay, weapons, drifter ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the ...
Style: exciting, realistic, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, investigation, danger, working undercover, heroes, terrorism, master warrior, race against time, undercover, dishonesty, self mutilation, kickass women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
42%
 4.0
 720
Virtual Combat (1995)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This lively low-budget action movie is packed with martial arts, sexy sirens, and a sci-fi plot involving computers and virtual reality images that become real. The tale centers on two Nevada border officers, Dave Quarry (Don "The Dragon" ...
Style: independent film, serious, suspenseful, futuristic
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virtual reality, female warrior, cyberpunk, martial arts, kickboxer, woman with a gun, female fight, kung fu, warrior, kung fu master, heroes, dystopian future ...
Time: future
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 2.8
 644
Gangland (2001)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, an evil pack of outlaws is systematically turning civilians into prisoners and slaves. Worse yet, the spread of a terrifying deadly flesh-eating virus threatens to destroy all of humanity. As good and evil ...
Style: serious, rough, bleak, independent film, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, against humanity, good versus evil, dystopian future, save the world, imaginary, rescue, life is a bitch, survival, heroes, confined, rivalry ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Samurai Resurrection (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overthrowing the shogunate for killing his companions. To do this , he resurrects an army od living dead swordsmen. Between him and his goal, only Yagyu ...
Style: serious, exciting, scary, epic, suspenseful ...
Plot: samurai, shogun, battles, ghost, zombie, heroes, danger, rivalry, vengeance, supernatural, reincarnation, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla (2002)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After the appearance of a new Gojira (Godzilla), the Japanese government builds a robotic Godzilla from the bones of the original monster that attacked Tokyo in 1954 to stop the beast.
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, natural horror, daikaiju ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: godzilla, giant monster, kaiju, androids and robots, monster, creature feature, bio weapon, supernatural, chaos, battles, technology gone awry, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: jurassic, year 2003, year 1999, 90s, 2000s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.9
 407
Sasori (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When a band of assassins invade the home of their target Hei Tai they find only his lovely, innocent, bride-to-be, Nami and force upon her a cruel dilemma: either she kills her fiancee’s sister or they kill her fiancee. Trapped, and unable to ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, retro ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: women's prison, revenge, life turned upside down, chases and races, rivalry, criminal heroes, confined, life is a bitch, fugitives, martial arts, murder, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.5
 1K
Alive (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, rough, serious, weird
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: death row, survival, experiment, vengeance, confined, danger, martial arts, prison life, imaginary, human experiment, electric chair, space and aliens ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Protector 2 (2013)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kham is the last in long line of guards who once watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. Traditionally, only the perfect elephants could successfully help defend the throne, after his harrowing quest to retrieve the elephants, Kham ...
Style: rough, exciting, suspenseful, serious, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, danger, heroes, motorcycle chase, chases and races, daring rescue, escapades, fight, medieval, tough heroes, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
41%
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