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Ichi (2008)
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Original name: ICHI
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.
Style:
exciting, rough, epic, suspenseful, period piece, scenic, cult classic, atmospheric, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, blind woman, ninja, sword, sword fight, female protagonist, medieval, samurai, japanese woman, attempted rape, brutality, heroes, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, danger, village, gang, gory, good versus evil, female killer, opponent, kung fu, zatoichi, swordswoman ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
asia, japan, ancient china
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Most similar movies to Ichi
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, stylized and realistic films with plots about martial arts, heroes, rivalry, samurai, master warrior, sword fight and kung fu mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ichi: Zatoichi (2003), Azumi (2003), Blind Fury (1989), Yojimbo (1961), Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
15K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, ancient china, asia, tokyo
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50%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
Style:
cult classic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
142K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, rough, jidai geki ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, east asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
visual, atmospheric, epic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
grindhouse, visual, bloody, perverse, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal ...
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cult classic, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, assassin, samurai sword, ninja, weapons, father son relationship, drifter, samurai, gory, master warrior, fight ...
Place:
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100%
1K
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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:
epic, exciting, stylized, rough, anime ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, medieval, heroes, rebellion, redemption, rivalry, tough heroes, rebelliousness, on the run, danger, good versus evil ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.
Style:
grindhouse, art house, cult classic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 81 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, perverse, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, master warrior, martial artist, sword fight, samurai sword, ninja, father son relationship, weapons, ronin, kung fu, fight ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Vietnam veteran by the name of Cole (Franco Nero) visits his war buddy Frank Landers (Alex Courtney) and his newly wed wife Mary Ann Landers (Susan George), who are the owners of a ...
Style:
grindhouse, bloody, action adventure, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
the philippines, tokyo, japan, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
cult classic, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
japan, asia
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Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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44K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, india
Similarity:
100%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
stylized, rough, suspenseful, perverse, exciting ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
china, ancient china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, exciting, serious, tense, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: Hong Kong
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
china, east asia, asia
Similarity:
100%
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