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Revenge (1964)
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Revenge (1964)
Original name: 仇討
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: This tragic drama shows a young man fettered by Bushido, the way of the Samurai, who tried to escape the chains of his position, but was being forced to die. When the Tokugawa Shogunate ruled the land, Tatsuno castle in Wakisaka Clan's home of Harima held an established custom, the inspection of the arms warehouse. The Government Inspector Okuno Magodayu found a slight bit of dirt on the point of a spear and mentioned it with disdain. Ezaki Shinpachi heard it and started an argument with him. Magodayu then sent a a letter of challenge to him because he felt insulted by a low-ranking underling without a title. As it turned out Magodayu was killed. Since then, Shinpachi and the Okuno family have had continuous revenge duels. The tension mounts as this story builds to an extremely violent climax, when blood must pay for blood if the clan is to survive!
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, jidai geki
Plot: samurai, time travel, revenge killing, politics, injustice, vengeance, rivalry, revenge, duel, feudal japan
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about samurai, martial arts, rivalry, heroes, medieval, master warrior and ronin mostly in Drama, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like Revenge: Samurai Banners (1969), The Sword of Doom (1966), The Shogun's Samurai (1978), Harakiri (1962), Incident at Blood Island (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Samurai Banners (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, jidai geki
Plot: samurai, power relations, betrayal, politics, state affairs, military, fall in love, master warrior, dishonesty, heroes, medieval, violent content ...
Time: 16th century, medieval times
Place: japan, asia
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Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Fire (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
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Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: japan
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The Sword of Doom (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopathic samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
Style: black and white, visual, cerebral, tense, stylized ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, ninja, medieval, violent, swordplay, vengeance, fencing, japanese history, kung fu, master warrior, sword fight ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1966
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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The Shogun's Samurai (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother ...
Style: perverse, epic, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: samurai, ninja, martial arts, medieval, japanese history, shogun, asian history, kung fu, rivalry, strong violent content, conspiracy, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 17th century
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Harakiri (1962)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
Style: tense, disturbing, bleak, black and white, melancholic ...
Plot: samurai, suicide, poverty, revenge, seppuku, medieval, tragedy, courage, life & death, sword fight, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 17th century, year 1962
Place: japan, asia, east asia
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Incident at Blood Island (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the ...
Style: serious, realistic, jidai geki
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, rough ...
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Bandit vs. Samurai Squad (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: martial arts, clan, religions or cults, cons and scams, heist, dishonesty, heroes, rivalry, vengeance, betrayal, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Samurai Spy (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of ...
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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 ...
Plot: samurai, father son relationship, rebellion, revenge, medieval, martial arts, violence, vengeance, kidnapping, family relations, injustice, master warrior ...
Time: 18th century, year 1967
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Geisha Assassin (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min.
Story: One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she fights hard against samurais with her sword. Kotono tries to chase the samurais who scramble to escape. ...
Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: female ninja, ninja, sword fight, exploitation, female martial artist, revenge, japanese woman, duel, samurai, geisha, female protagonist, parent child relationship ...
Place: japan
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Zatoichi: The Last (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 132 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, tense ...
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Time: 19th century
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Adventure, Action
Country: Japan
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Style: cult classic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
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Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
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Style: cult classic, tense, captivating, exciting, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sword of the Beast (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
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Genre: Action, Drama
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Duration: 122 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: splatter, captivating, realistic, serious, offbeat ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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47 Samurai (1962)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 207 min.
Story: The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was Kōzuke no suke. The ...
Style: epic, harsh, bleak, atmospheric, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Last Riders (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When his family is murdered, Johnny gets revenge on his former biker gang, The Slaves, and the police who lied to the gang about Johnny selling them out to the authorities.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Kill! (1968)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In this pitch-black action comedy by Kihachi Okamoto, a pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, ...
Style: dark comedy, serious, realistic, jidai geki, spoof ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 1968, 19th century, 60s, 1830s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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