If You Liked The Tale of Zatoichi Continues, Watch These Next
Finished The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Tale of Zatoichi Continues, most of them are adventure, action, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman(1971)
6.8AdventureActionDramaAlso adventure and action
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 youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's…
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2.Rurouni Kenshin: The Final(2021)
7.7ActionAdventureHistoryAlso action and adventure
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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3.Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades(1972)
7.1DramaActionAdventureAlso drama and action
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
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4.Revenge of the Ninja(1983)
6.3ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and drama
A peaceful ex-ninja's life shatters when his son's kidnapping forces him back into violence amid an American-Japanese criminal drug war.
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5.Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima(1973)
7.3DramaCrimeActionAlso drama and action
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
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6.ICHI(2008)
6.8ActionAdventureDramaAlso action and adventure
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…
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7.13 Assassins(2010)
7.3AdventureDramaActionAlso adventure and drama
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.
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8.The Challenge(1982)
5.9ActionDramaAlso action and drama
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from…
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9.No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers(1990)
6.7ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and drama
Two feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.
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10.Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends(2014)
7.7ActionAdventureFantasyAlso action and adventure
Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
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11.Blade of the Immortal(2017)
6.7ActionFantasyAdventureAlso action and adventure
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless…
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12.Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno(2014)
7.6ActionAdventureDramaAlso action and adventure
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 now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new…
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13.No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder(1987)
6.0ActionAdventureAlso action and adventure
In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops.
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14.Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins(2012)
7.5AdventureActionFantasyAlso adventure and action
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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15.Lupin the Third: Jigen's Gravestone(2014)
7.4AnimationAdventureActionAlso adventure and action
Lupin & Jigen have their sights set on a treasure called the Little Comet, which is located in the heavily fortified country of East Doroa. During the heist, Jigen is almost killed by a sniper named Yael Okuzaki. His specialty is preparing tombstones for his targets before executing them. It's said that no one can…
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17.The Violence Action(2022)
6.1ActionCrimeAdventureAlso action and adventure
Kei Kikuno attends a vocational school as a student. For her part-time job, she works as a contract killer. She is excellent at her job and never gets scared by anyone. One day, she receives the most challenging request.
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18.In Full Bloom(2019)
6.8ActionDramaAlso action and drama
Set shortly after the end of World War II, a philosophical boxing drama of two fighters from opposite worlds (USA and Japan) who are pulled together for a questionable fight arranged by their unscrupulous managers and the Yakuza.
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19.Goemon(2009)
6.9ActionDramaFantasyAlso action and drama
Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon in an epic story. One night while looting treasure from Nanban, Goemon finds a mysterious box hidden inside a secret grave. A forgotten relic from the past containing untold powers.
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20.Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass(2002)
7.7ActionAnimationAdventureAlso action and adventure
With their most formidable foe vanquished, Inuyasha and his comrades begin returning to their everyday lives. But their peace is fleeting as another adversary emerges: Kaguya, the self-proclaimed princess from the Moon of Legend, hatches a plot to plunge the world into an eternal night of the full moon. Inuyasha,…
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