Movies like 実録 新選組
If 実録 新選組's mix of samurai, jidaigeki and shinsengumi stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what 実録 新選組's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
2021 · Directed by Keishi Otomo · 138 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: samurai, jidaigeki, shinsengumi · Also a Japanese historical drama
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.
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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
2012 · Directed by Keishi Otomo · 134 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: samurai, jidaigeki, shinsengumi · Also a Japanese historical drama · From the same decade (2010s)
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
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Harakiri
1962 · Directed by Masaki Kobayashi · 135 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: samurai, jidaigeki · Also a Japanese historical drama
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce…
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Throne of Blood
1957 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 108 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: samurai, jidaigeki · Also a Japanese historical drama
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses…
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
2011 · Directed by Takashi Miike · 128 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: samurai, jidaigeki · Also a Japanese historical drama · From the same decade (2010s)
A 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.
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Kagemusha
1980 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 180 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: samurai, jidaigeki · Also a Japanese historical drama
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans.
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Ran
1985 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 160 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: jidaigeki · Also a Japanese historical drama
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
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Sword of the Stranger
2007 · Directed by Masahiro Ando · 103 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: samurai · Also a Japanese historical drama
Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase.
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Seven Samurai
1954 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 207 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: samurai, jidaigeki
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and…
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Yojimbo
1961 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 110 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: samurai, jidaigeki
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.
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Rashomon
1950 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 88 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: samurai, jidaigeki
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
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13 Assassins
2010 · Directed by Takashi Miike · 141 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: samurai, jidaigeki · From the same decade (2010s)
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…