If You Liked ICHI, Watch These Next
Finished ICHI (2008) 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 ICHI, most of them are action, adventure, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.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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2.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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3.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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4.The Tale of Zatoichi Continues(1962)
7.1AdventureActionDramaAlso adventure and action
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.
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5.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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6.Female Yakuza Tale(1973)
6.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and drama
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
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7.Shogun Assassin(1980)
6.8ActionAdventureAlso action and adventure
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 vengeance.
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8.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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9.Lady Snowblood(1973)
7.5ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and drama
A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
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10.American Ninja(1985)
6.0ActionAdventureAlso action and adventure
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in the Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the…
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11.Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair(2011)
8.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and drama
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four…
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12.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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13.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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14.The Warrior's Way(2010)
6.6AdventureFantasyActionAlso adventure and action
A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.
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15.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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17.Taboo(1999)
6.6DramaHistoryThrillerAlso drama and history
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering on a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to…
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18.Falcon Rising(2014)
6.3AdventureActionAlso adventure and action
Chapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead.
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19.Samurai Marathon(2019)
6.0ActionDramaHistoryAlso action and drama
When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race.
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20.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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