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An Actor's Revenge (1963)
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An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Original name: 雪之丞変化
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, psychological, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, jidai geki, light, noir ...
Plot: samurai, revenge, sword fight, obsession, thief, lgbt, murder, voyeur, transformation, voyeurism, suicide, female impersonator, shogun, katana, stage actor, theatrical troupe, friendship, friends, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, gender bending, fall in love, vengeance, rivalry ...
Time: year 1963, 1830s, 19th century, 1930s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
Keyword: partners, russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, stylized and atmospheric films with plots about samurai, heroes, rivalry, vengeance, murder, society and medieval mostly in Drama, Action and History genres. Some movies like An Actor's Revenge: Kwaidan (1964), Samurai Rebellion (1967), Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011), Hero (2007), The Hidden Blade (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kwaidan (1964)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story: Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his ...
Style: anthology, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot: samurai, ghost, supernatural, macabre, snow, spirit, naval battle, japanese mythology, surrealism, folk horror, betrayal, visceral ...
Time: 19th century, 17th century, 11th century, 13th century, 1900s ...
Place: japan, asia, kyoto japan
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Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Style: tense, emotional, stylized, black and white, sincere ...
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Time: 18th century, year 1967
Place: japan, asia
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
Style: tense, serious, bleak, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: samurai, feudal japan, revenge, medieval, society, life is a bitch, vengeance, loss of son, down on your luck, rivalry, winter, hara kiri ...
Time: 17th century, middle ages
Place: japan, asia
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Hero (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Kohei Kuryu returns to Tokyo, reunites with his former colleagues, and goes up against one of the most famous lawyers in Tokyo to solve a new case and team up with his best partner, Maiko Amemiya.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: rivalry, master warrior, legal action, investigation, partner, murder, uncover truth, love, danger, friendship, prosecutor, heroes ...
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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 ...
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Place: japan, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the travelers trapped at the inn. Ihei Misawa is a ronin, a samurai without a master, whose skills ...
Style: spiritual, jidai geki, serious, captivating, stylized ...
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The Rebirth (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, friendship, life is a bitch, small town, loss of daughter, forgiveness, friends, starting over, dealing with death, interview, very little dialogue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the ...
Style: tense, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: samurai, sword fight, feudal japan, poverty, love, friendship, medieval, character study, tragedy, visceral, love story, assassination ...
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Memories of Tomorrow (2006)
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Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, family relations, mental illness, family problems, unfulfillment, family in crisis, supportive spouse, terminal illness, businessman, love, society, friendship ...
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New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)
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Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: cult classic, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, medieval, ninja, ancient, handicapped, ronin, swordplay, murder, village, kidnapping ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him ...
Style: lyrical, melancholic, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Plot: world war two, memory, anti war, grandmother, depression, brothers, family relations, samurai, haunted by the past, society, battles, parents and children ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, post world war two
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Duration: 180 min.
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Style: serious, emotional, atmospheric, stylized, crying ...
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Time: middle ages
Place: europe, denmark
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Style: thought provoking, masterpiece
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Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
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