Movies Like Buddha: The Great Departure
If you liked Buddha: The Great Departure (2011), a adventure and animation movie directed by Kozo Morishita, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 1 Wandering; Agateram (2020)
★ 7/10Also animation and adventureThe wandering knight, Bedivere, reaches the end of his journey. It is A.D. 1273 in Jerusalem. The Holy Land has been transformed into a massive desert and its people have been forced out of their homes as three major…
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Kingdom (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and historySet in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a fateful encounter with young King Eisei. King Eisei aims to unify all…
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Scarlet (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and dramaAfter failing to avenge her father's murder, Princess Scarlet, wakes up in the "Land of the Dead." In this world filled with madness, if she does not achieve her revenge against her nemesis and reach the "No End…
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Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and adventureA thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage…
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Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans (1993)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and animationDr. Raichi is one of the only survivors of the Tuffles, a race that once lived on Planet Plant before the coming of the Saiyans. The Saiyans not only massacred the entire Tuffle race, but also stole their technology…
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and adventureThe film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is…
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Kagemusha (1980)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and historyA feudal epic presenting the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. The impostor becomes comfortable living his life among…
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One Piece Episode of East Blue (2017)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and adventureExperience the inspiring moments that launched Luffy and the first four members of his crew on their grand adventure to find the One Piece! It’s all here—from Shanks giving Luffy the straw hat, to Nami facing the…
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Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and adventureGuts, an immensely strong sword-for-hire, has little direction in his life, simply fighting one battle after the next. However, this all changes suddenly when he meets and is bested by Griffith, a beautiful and…
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Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel (2005)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and adventureNaruto, Shikamaru, and Sakura are executing their mission of delivering a lost pet to a certain village. However, right in the midst of things, troops led by the mysterious knight, Temujin, attack them. In the violent…
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Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission (2013)
★ 7/10Also adventure and animationIsaac Netero is the chairman of the Hunter Association. Decades ago he sealed away Jed, a Hunter who had mastered the use of On, the dark "shadow" of Nen. Now On users have reappeared at the Heaven's Arena "Battle…
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Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and adventureSecond part of the new Fist of the North Star movie pentalogy presenting the story from Yuria's perspective, spanning from her childhood, including the day she first met Kenshiro.
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Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom (2006)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure and animationNaruto Uzumaki, Kakashi Hatake, Sakura Haruno, and Rock Lee are assigned to protect the prince of the Land of the Moon, Michiru, during his world trip; other escorts had been hired, but quit due to being treated…
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Macross Plus: The Movie (1995)
★ 7/10Also adventure and animationThree decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden…
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Escaflowne: The Movie (2000)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and adventureGaea is a mythical realm ruled by sword and sorcery and immersed in blood and violence. Thrust into a conflict she doesn't quite understand, Hitomi Kanzaki helps aid the young Prince Van as they embark upon a journey…
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Naruto: The Lost Story - Mission: Protect the Waterfall Village! (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and adventureNaruto and his friends must get back a jug of stolen holy water from a band of higher class ninjas.
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Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower (2010)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and animationAssigned on a mission to capture Mukade, a missing-nin, Naruto Uzumaki sets out for the once glorious historic ruins of "Ouran", where he pursues and corners the rouge ninja. Mukade's goal is revealed to be a dormant…
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Flyboys (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyThe adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
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Fire and Ice (1983)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and adventureThe villainous Nekron and his mother, Queen Juliana, plot against the human race from their frigid fortress. Creating mass destruction with huge glaciers, mother and son incur the wrath of Larn, a warrior whose entire…
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Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and dramaCaptain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.