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Azumi (2003)
15K
Original name: あずみ
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ultimate assassin.
Style:
breathtaking, epic, realistic, rough, serious, intense, fast paced, perverse, stylized, manga ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, samurai, gory, vengeance, medieval, visceral, brutality, storytelling, kung fu, sword, heroes, asian history, good versus evil, danger, introspection, elimination, weapons, samurai sword, fight, honest, revenge, violence, death, sword fight ...
Time:
17th century, 1600s
Place:
japan, ancient china, asia, tokyo
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Most similar movies to Azumi
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, stylized, exciting and suspenseful films with plots about samurai, martial arts, heroes, rivalry, sword fight, ninja and samurai sword mostly in Action, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Azumi: Kamui (2009), Blood: The Last Vampire (2009), Seven Swords (2005), Ichi (2008), The Princess Blade (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former ...
Style:
suspenseful, stylized, serious, perverse, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, medieval, ninja, martial arts, heroic mission, tough heroes, danger, superhuman powers, rivalry, battles, military, partners against crime ...
Place:
japan, ancient china
Similarity:
100%
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:
intense, suspense, anime, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, katana, sword fight, martial arts, medieval, fight, survival, one man army, redemption, assassin, good versus evil, samurai era ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, hong kong, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
1K
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:
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, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, France, China, Argentina
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling." Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her ...
Style:
intense, serious, atmospheric, anime, gothic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, girl heroine, medieval, martial arts, vengeance, ninja, revenge, murder, sword fight, betrayal, greed, adaptation ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Australia, Netherlands
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Seven warriors come together to protect a village from a diabolical General.
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, scenic, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, samurai, wuxia, sword, last stand, leadership, heroic mission, vengeance, good versus evil, rivalry, emperor, mercenary ...
Time:
17th century, middle ages
Place:
china, east asia, ancient china
Similarity:
100%
4K
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 ...
Style:
exciting, epic, rough, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
asia, japan, ancient china
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Yuki is the last surviving royal of the House of Takemikazuchi or Takemikazuchi no Hime (たけみかずち の ひめ), who live in a futuristic post-apocalyptic isolationist world where they use their skills as former Mikado guards to become ...
Style:
stylized, serious, suspenseful, fast, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female warrior, martial arts, vengeance, sword fight, ninja, rebellion, heroic mission, medieval, dystopian future, rivalry, escapades, danger ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia, hong kong, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
Style:
bloody, stylized, talky, manga, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, assassin, samurai sword, ninja, weapons, father son relationship, drifter, samurai, gory, master warrior, fight ...
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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179K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Based on the original 1941 movie from Japan, and from ancient Japan’s most enduring tale, the epic 3D fantasy-adventure 47 Ronin is born. Keanu Reeves leads the cast as Kai, an outcast who joins Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), the leader of the 47 ...
Style:
epic, exciting, stylized, fairy tale, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, ronin, revenge, battles, medieval, shogun, beast, half breed, sword and sorcery, samurai sword, heroes ...
Time:
middle ages, 18th century, year 2013, 2010s
Place:
japan, asia, ancient china, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
5K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, stylized, serious, surreal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, time travel, japanese history, murder, heroic mission, righting the wronged, reincarnation, danger, vengeance, supernatural, master warrior, rivalry ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
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, tense, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
samurai, zatoichi, swordsman, martial arts, samurai sword, ninja, medieval, yakuza, female nudity, handicapped, ronin, clan ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess ...
Style:
serious, dark fantasy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, kung fu, witch, ninja, samurai sword, kaiju, princess, bow and arrow, youkai, asian, giant monster ...
Place:
japan, east asia, asia
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, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, manga, realistic, anime ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, ancient china, tokyo, kyoto japan
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
grindhouse, visual, bloody, perverse, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, revenge, martial arts, ninja, kung fu, violent, assassin, breast feeding, samurai sword, weapons, drifter, lone wolves ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia, australia, tokyo
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:
grindhouse, suspenseful, exciting, melancholic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, revenge, vengeance, female killer, rape and revenge, murder, female protagonist, vigilante, female assassin, childbirth, blood, assassination ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, year 1973, turn of the century, 1880s ...
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
75%
104K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
Style:
serious, sexy, atmospheric, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
superheroine, assassin, vigilante, supernatural, female assassin, heroes, martial arts, woman with a gun, female protagonist, danger, uninhibited rivalry, youth ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 2000s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the ...
Style:
bloody, brutal, exciting, fast paced, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, revenge, kung fu, assassin, martial artist, one man army, vengeance, hand to hand combat, fight to the death, ninjitsu, assassination ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s, 21st century
Place:
china, osaka japan, berlin germany, asia, japan
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In an unknown place and unknown time, a lone Samurai known only as Grave thirsts for the ultimate battle.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, fast
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, vampire, rivalry, supernatural, heroes, heroic mission, imaginary, danger, escapades, ninja, sword ...
Place:
japan, asia, ancient china
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
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:
year 1972
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.
Style:
visual, atmospheric, epic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, assassin, samurai sword, kung fu, warrior, ninja, sword duel, superhero, fight, ancient, swordplay ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.
Style:
visual, serious, exciting, rough, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, samurai, samurai sword, assassin, kung fu, warrior, ancient, swordplay, cold, ice, weapons, superhero ...
Place:
japan, antarctic, asia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
Style:
exciting, stylized, dorama, perverse, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, medieval, samurai era, martial arts, fight, good versus evil, heroes, master warrior, samurai sword, hitman, showdown, battles ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, tokyo
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of ...
Style:
grindhouse, visual, atmospheric, stylized, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ninja, kung fu, martial arts, female nudity, yakuza, female ninja, revenge, samurai sword, violence, exploitation, assassin, violent ...
Time:
16th century, 19th century, 15th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
26%
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, captivating, exciting, bleak ...
Plot:
samurai, ninja, martial arts, medieval, asian history, shogun, samurai sword, japanese history, kung fu, rivalry, conspiracy, strong violent content ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
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, samurai sword, violent, fencing, swordplay, vengeance, kung fu, japanese history, master warrior ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Style:
unusual plot structure, intense, suspense, harsh, tense ...
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, samurai sword, warrior, medieval, seppuku, swords and armor, assassin, shogun, swordsman, battles, revenge ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
Style:
epic, jidai geki, captivating, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, samurai sword, medieval, ninja, fight, exploitation, kung fu master, swordplay, assassin, edo period, violent content ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
25%
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, exciting, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, samurai sword, medieval, ninja, ancient, handicapped, ronin, swordplay, murder, kidnapping ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the ...
Style:
jidai geki, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, samurai sword, ninja master, revenge, shogun, karate, kung fu, ancient, clan, master warrior, warlord ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
25%
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