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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1989)
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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1989)
Original name: 座頭市
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, exciting, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, zatoichi, swordsman, medieval, ninja, yakuza, female nudity, handicapped, ancient, ronin, clan, exploitation, swordplay, village, heroes, gang, gory, master warrior, escapades, rivalry, danger, good versus evil, lone wolves, gangster ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, cult classic and realistic films with plots about martial arts, heroes, samurai, master warrior, escapades, lone wolves and zatoichi mostly in Action, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964), Kamui (2009), Blades of Blood (2010), Goemon (2009), Zatoichi: The Last (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: zatoichi, martial arts, handicapped, swordplay, ronin, samurai, gangster, violent content, assassination attempt, escapades, master warrior, one man army ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
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100%
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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 ⇓
100%
Blades of Blood (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the 16th century in Chosun dynasty, HWANG Jung-hak and LEE Mong-hak create the “Grand Alliance” with the united dream of a better world. While the new leader LEE dreams of eradicating this world of all its corruption and becoming king ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, tense, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, rivalry, political unrest, danger, sword fight, medieval, vengeance, assassination attempt, politics, dishonesty, escapades, sword ...
Time: 16th century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
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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%
Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: zatoichi, samurai, swordsman, martial arts, conspiracy, handicapped, ronin, swordplay, village, corruption, gangster, violent content ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan ...
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, swordplay, handicapped, ancient, ronin, katana, sword, violent content, gangster ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.
Style: cult classic, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, medieval, ninja, ancient, handicapped, ronin, swordplay, murder, village, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman's Pilgrimage (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Our hero Zatoichi sails to one of the distant islands to begin a pilgrimage to a total of 88 Shinto shrines.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, yakuza, handicapped, clan, swordplay, ancient, village, self defense, one man army, lone wolves ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Blind Swordsman Samaritan (1968)
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode ...
Style: cult classic, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, handicapped, adventurer, ancient, swordplay, ronin, yakuza, sword, violent content, gangster ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
Style: cult classic, exciting, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, handicapped, ancient, swordplay, ronin, katana, snake, gangster, violent content, village ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.
Style: cult classic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ronin, swordplay, mafia, handicapped, katana, gangster, heroes, good versus evil, lone wolves ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
100%
Adventures of Zatoichi (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, new year's eve, sword, swordplay, ronin, handicapped, village, one man army, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, captivating, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, ancient, handicapped, swordplay, samurai, gangster, violent content, escapades, moral dilemma, friendship ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: zatoichi, chess, martial arts, ninja, handicapped, ancient, swordplay, sword, samurai, violent content, escapades, hopes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Zatoichi's Spurting Blood Road (1967)
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 ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, katana, sword, swordplay, ronin, handicapped, fight scenes, undercover, hopes, getting home ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, rough, emotional, serious ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, danger, chases and races, babies and infants, master warrior, motherhood, death of mother, prostitute, martial arts, ninja, murderer ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led ...
Style: cult classic, exciting, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, handicapped, swordplay, corruption, village, violent content, escape, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Zatoichi's Cane-sword (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a ...
Style: cult classic, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: zatoichi, martial arts, ancient, swordplay, handicapped, gangster, village, samurai, violent content, lone wolves, master warrior, redemption ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, handicapped, swordplay, yakuza, corruption, village, swordsman, edo period, violent content ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Return of Masseur Ichi (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love: his own brother. He must face in combat not only the pursuing retainers but his own ...
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, handicapped, adventurer, ancient, swordplay, sword fight, one man army, yakuza, criminal, violent content ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 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: cult classic, art house, grindhouse, captivating, serious ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, medieval, yakuza, sword fight, ninja, badass, swordplay, international relations, handicapped, kung fu ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Zatoichi's Revenge (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, one man army, ninja, handicapped, swordplay, katana, village, murder, sword, violent content ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Zatoichi in Desperation (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Zatoichi tries to save a maiden in distress in this sequel to the popular series about a blind samurai swordsman who moonlights as a masseur. Always fighting for the underdog, noble Zatoichi sets out to keep a girl from becoming a prostitute. But he ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, saga, semi serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: zatoichi, samurai, katana, handicapped, yakuza, animal abuse, ancient, swordplay, martial arts, righting the wronged, prostitute, escapades ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking ...
Style: cult classic, stylized, semi serious, realistic
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, spy, gold, sword fight, handicapped, drifter, kung fu, ancient, clan ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Zatoichi at Large (1972)
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into ...
Style: cult classic, saga, semi serious, atmospheric
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ancient, swordplay, handicapped, sword, gangster, gory, pregnancy, escapades, babies and infants ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, serious
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, kung fu, yakuza, katana, exploitation, ancient, wuxia, swordplay, drifter ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, cult classic ...
Plot: samurai, yakuza, zatoichi, martial arts, gambling, rivalry, dishonesty, small town, village, mob boss, blind character, murder ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Zatoichi monogatari (1974)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gangs.
Style: exciting, rough, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: zatoichi, handicapped, ronin, martial arts, one man army, danger, attempted murder, heroes, escapades, wise man, village, violent content ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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