Movies like Sword of the Stranger

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Sword of the Stranger (2007)
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Sword of the Stranger (2007)
Original name: ストレンヂア -無皇刃譚-
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The unlikely companions form a bond over saving the dog from a poison attack, but chaos erupts when the assassins find Kotaro, and No Name must face his past before a horrible fate is met again.
Style: anime, exciting, manga, captivating, serious, suspenseful, touching, sincere, epic, surreal ...
Audience: kids
Plot: samurai, swordsman, master warrior, little boy, emperor, escapades, curses spells and rituals, espionage, human animal relationship, feudal japan, kidnapping, stranger, friendship, hostage, witchcraft, lucifer, adventurer, mature, road trip, violent, canine, swordplay, heroes, politics, rivalry ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, medieval times
Place: japan
Keyword: chinese, challenge

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Most similar movies to Sword of the Stranger

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, exciting, serious and captivating films with plots about escapades, danger, heroes, rivalry, imaginary, good versus evil and fight mostly in Action, Animation and Adventure genres. Some movies like Sword of the Stranger: Ninja Scroll (1993), Dororo (2019), Blade of the Immortal (2008), Bleach: Memories of Nobody (2006), Samurai Champloo (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ninja Scroll (1993)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, hiring his services to those with gold... or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a hideous plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways and ...
Style: anime, exciting, manga, sexy, adult anime ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, samurai, ninja, transformation, good versus evil, demon, ninja warrior, supernatural, graphic violence, master warrior, duel, sword fight ...
Time: middle ages, 1800s, ancient times
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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Dororo (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones ...
Style: anime, disturbing, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: samurai, danger, demon, friendship, society, uncover truth, violence, fight, human versus monster, supernatural, poverty, losing-it hero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Blade of the Immortal (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, History, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Blade of the Immortal is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura. The series is set in Japan during the mid-Tokugawa Shogunate period and follows the cursed samurai Manji, who has to kill 1000 evil men in order to regain his mortality. The manga ...
Style: anime, captivating, tense, rough, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: samurai, danger, master warrior, superhuman powers, imaginary, battles, rivalry, obsessive quest, healing power, poisoning, heroes, escapades ...
Time: 16th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bleach: Memories of Nobody (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In Karakura Town, unidentifiable spirits begin appearing en mases. While attempting to deal with these strange souls, Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki meet Senna, a mysterious shinigami who wipes out most of them. Senna refuses to answer any ...
Style: anime, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: escapades, vengeance, danger, samurai, supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, rivalry, kidnapping, porn, superhero, heroes ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Samurai Champloo (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Mugen is a ferocious, animalistic warrior with a fighting style inspired by break-dancing. Jin is a ronin samurai who wanders the countryside alone. They may not be friends, but their paths continually cross. And when ditzy waitress Fuu gets ...
Style: anime, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: samurai, pride and honor, martial arts, sword fight, friendship, master warrior, danger, katana, breakdance, on the road, road trip, journey ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, okinawa japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A year has passed since Guts parted ways with the Band of the Hawks. Meanwhile, his former mercenary group is plotting a rescue mission to save an imprisoned Griffith.
Style: anime, adult animation, serious, dark, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: imaginary kingdom, medieval, battles, good versus evil, demon, dark hero, strength, imaginary, supernatural ability, heroes, supernatural, rivalry ...
Time: middle ages, year 2013, medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The strongest Hunters that once existed in the Hunters Association were split into "light" and "dark", and each walked down their respective paths. The "dark" side begins moving in order to massacre all Hunters! What ...
Style: anime, semi serious, exciting, captivating, manga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ambitious, imaginary, friendship, team, adventurer, good versus evil, escapades, heroes, friends, fight, journey, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hunter X Hunter: Phantom Rouge (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Kurapika became a Hunter to take vengeance on the Class-A crime group Phantom Troupe who massacred his clan for their unique eyes. The eyes of the Kurta clan turn scarlet in times of anger or emotional agitation and are considered the most beautiful ...
Style: anime, exciting, captivating, light, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, escapades, young heroes, bounty hunter, team, treasure hunt, danger, ambition, parents and children, twists and turns, imaginary, fighting crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: InuYasha is a half-demon who was trapped in the Legendary Tree and was set free by Kagome, a girl who traveled 500 years through time. This time, both of them will have to face Menomaru, a Chinese demon whose father, known as Hyoga, came 300 years ...
Style: anime, semi serious, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, heroic mission, magic, good versus evil, monster, demon, imaginary, supernatural, imaginary kingdom, vengeance, race against time ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from his past. The sparks of violence dropped along Afro’s bloody path now burn out of control – and ...
Style: anime, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: samurai, vengeance, sword fight, martial arts, master warrior, supernatural, mortal combat, justice, ninja, dark hero, brutality, violence ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Rurouni Kenshin: Requiem for the Ishin Patriots (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The war against the Tokugawa Shogunate ended years ago. But there are some who are not happy with the outcome. Shigure Takimi watched his friends and family get slashed down in the name of freedom and prosperity. Now he and a band of desparate ...
Style: anime, serious, stylized, exciting, crying
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, pacifism, rurouni kenshin, battles, righting the wronged, escapades, hopes, vengeance, danger, superhero, redemption, lone wolves ...
Time: ancient times
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Beowulf (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 6th-century Scandinavian warrior, Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the manlike ogre Grendel, a descendant of Cain.
Style: computer animated, epic, fairy tale, adult animation, dark fantasy ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, mythology, dragon, viking, heroic mission, legends and myths, sword fight, magic, good versus evil, beast, ancient, supernatural ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 2007, 2000s, 6th century
Place: denmark, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Swordsman (1990)
Genre: Action, History
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a scroll containing valuable martial arts secrets is stolen from the Emperor, an army detachment is sent to recover it. It is based on the novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer by Jinyong.
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, medieval, kung fu, martial artist, swashbuckler, strong female lead, danger, obsessive quest, heroes, rivalry, state affairs ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Guts, an immensely strong sword-for-hire, has little direction in his life, simply fighting one battle after the next. However, this all changes suddenly when he meets and is bested by Griffith, a beautiful and charismatic young man who leads the ...
Style: anime, serious, manga, captivating, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: battles, supernatural ability, heroes, vengeance, supernatural, good versus evil, shape shifting, imaginary, uninhibited rivalry, danger, military, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2012, medieval times, middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Sengoku Basara: The Last Party (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, History
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story of the film is set after the conflict instigated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended, but not before the Battle of Sekigahara determines who shall be the Shogun of Japan.
Style: anime, tense, captivating, serious, bleak ...
Plot: samurai, artificial intelligence, imaginary, curses spells and rituals, war, state affairs, technology gone awry, society, danger, chaos, rivalry, campaign
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the land of Orlais, a brash young Seeker—Cassandra—fights to stop a blood-soaked conspiracy. Hidden hands seek to tear apart the realm's most powerful religious order, and as the sinister plot unfolds, Cassandra is accused of treason and ...
Style: anime, exciting, stylized, suspenseful, adult animation ...
Plot: magic, female warrior, conspiracy, frame up, imaginary kingdom, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, supernatural ability, escapades, religions or cults, save the day ...
Time: year 2012, middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Akira Kurosawa's: Samurai 7 (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 702 min.
TV show
Story: Samurai 7 is a 2004 anime TV series, produced by Gonzo and based on Akira Kurosawa's highly regarded 1954 movie Seven Samurai. The series was directed by Toshifumi Takizawa and its music was composed by Kaoru Wada and Eitetsu Hayashi. There are ...
Style: anime, serious, futuristic, stylized, epic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: samurai, kendo, master warrior, rescue, righting the wronged, heroic mission, danger, fighting crime, good versus evil, hopes, society, dystopian future ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Second part of the new Fist of the North Star movie pentalogy presenting the story from Yuria's perspective, spanning from her childhood, including the day she first met Kenshiro.
Style: anime, exciting, captivating, serious, touching ...
Plot: one against many, nuclear holocaust, warrior, good versus evil, fight, friendship, love, supernatural power, honor, kidnapping, rescue, wrestler ...
Time: future, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min.
Story: In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new ...
Style: anime, intense, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, gory, deadly creature, murder, secret movement, good versus evil, heroic mission, battles, escapades, imaginary, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Lupin the Third: Record of Observations of the East - Another Page (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lupin has become a suspect in the murder of a professor named Theo Argent. The professor had just discovered the missing page of Marco Polo's Record of Observations of the East travel journal. As Lupin is being pursued by the police, he ends up ...
Style: anime, captivating, tense, exciting, entertaining ...
Plot: lupin iii, male female relationship, friend, robbery, interpol, espionage, femme fatale, forgery, friendship, fall in love, heist, car chase ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Road to Ninja - Naruto the Movie (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sixteen years ago, a mysterious masked ninja unleashes a powerful creature known as the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox on the Hidden Leaf Village Konoha, killing many people. In response, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze and his wife Kushina Uzumaki, the ...
Style: anime, captivating, manga, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: naruto, love, village, alternate reality, teenager, fight, good versus evil, warrior, rivalry, danger, friendship, superhero ...
Time: year 2012
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Storm Rider Clash of the Evils (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: China
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The film is a spinoff of the original story and the two protagonists Wind and Cloud. The residents of Sword-Worshipping Manor, which houses the best sword-smiths in the world, are brutally massacred after they are alleged to be plotting a rebellion ...
Style: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, forces of nature, good versus evil, pride and honor, save the day, imaginary, heroic mission, magical, supernatural ability, imaginary kingdom, escapades, alternate timeline ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Rurouni Kenshin (1996)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The Meiji Era was one of great renewal for Japan, where swords and killing were outlawed. However, many survivors from the time of Revolution still live, lurking in the shadows and waiting for a chance to use their killing blades again. Only Kenshin ...
Style: anime, manga, exciting, shounen, brutal ...
Audience: kids, manly
Plot: samurai, master warrior, martial arts, swordsman, mature, bully, superhero, rurouni kenshin, serial killer, sword fight, battles, innocence ...
Time: 19th century, 60s, 1860s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 50 min.
Story: After falling through a time-slip, Yusei Fudo (who has just had his powerful card stolen by a mysterious stranger) meets with Jaden Yuki and Yugi Muto, who agree to help Yusei defeat the evil Paradox, who is planning to destroy Pegasus before he can ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, girls' night
Plot: monster, time travel, master villain, escapades, save the world, good versus evil, chase, heroes, imaginary, danger, save the day, teenage boy ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Karas: The Revelation (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the city of Shinjuku, a conflict between a rouge Karas by the name of Eko and the "will of the city" rage in a conflict for dominance. A Karas brought about to fight the rouge has fallen, leaving the city and its inhabitants ...
Style: anime, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, epic ...
Plot: heroes, vengeance, battles, danger, escapades, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, destruction, demon, gangster, custody ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Blue Exorcist: The Movie (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Rin Okumura is raised by a famous exorcist named Father Fujimoto. After an argument between the two, Rin discovers he is the son of the devil. Rin decides to fight his fate by joining the True Cross Academy to become an exorcist and defeat demons. ...
Style: anime, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: demon, supernatural, good versus evil, parallel world, heroic mission, rivalry, satan, brother brother relationship, exorcism, curses spells and rituals, friendship, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Half a year after the events of the series "Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress", the team attempt to take back Unato castle.
Style: anime, captivating, unusual plot structure, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: survival, zombie apocalypse, team, friends, escapades, fight, chase, death, friendship, youth, danger, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Fist of the North Star: Legend of Raoh - Chapter of Fierce Fighting (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A film adaptation of the Last Nanto General story arc from the manga, depicting the final battle between Kenshiro and Raoh that led to Kenshiro becoming the successor of Hokuto Shinken. Some events from the manga / anime have been excluded from the ...
Style: anime, serious, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: martial arts, nuclear holocaust, warrior, brother vs brother, fight to the death, battles, post apocalypse, good versus evil, fight, supernatural power, friendship, wrestler ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
InuYasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Inuyasha and his brother, Sesshomaru, each inherited a sword from their father after his death. However, their father had a third sword, named Sounga, that he sealed away. Seven hundreds years after his death, Sounga awakens and threatens ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, exciting, stylized
Audience: pre-teens, kids
Plot: supernatural, good versus evil, heroic mission, young heroes, danger, master warrior, youth, escapades, imaginary, curses spells and rituals, clairvoyant, haunting ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Highlander: Vengeance (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Colin MacLeod hunts for the man responsible for the death of his love. He chases the immortal Marcus Octavius across centuries as his quest threatens to take over his life and heart. In his quest, he meets a woman who reminds him of his slain ...
Style: anime, adult animation, touching, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroes, redemption, idealism, revenge, battles, hopes, good versus evil, heroic mission, obsessive quest, supernatural, rivalry, escapades ...
Time: 22nd century, near future, future
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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