Movies Like Shingo's Final Duel
If you liked Shingo's Final Duel (1964), a history and action movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda, 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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Samurai Reincarnation (1981)
★ 5.8/10Also actionAfter surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a…
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The Challenge (1982)
★ 5.9/10Also actionRick, 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…
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Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (1978)
★ 7/10Also actionFollowing 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…
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also action and historyIn 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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The Sword of Doom (1966)
★ 7.8/10Also actionRyunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.
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The Paper Tigers (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also actionThree middle aged men polish their martial arts skills to avenge their fallen master.
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Sister Street Fighter (1974)
★ 6.6/10Also actionLi Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug lord, his sister Li Koryu turns to his former martial-arts school, including the powerful Sonny Kawasaka, for help in the…
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Gintama 2: Rules Are Made to Be Broken (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also actionThe Yorozuya gang returns to protect the country's shogun when the Shinsengumi police force finds itself in a crisis.
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Chûshingura (1962)
★ 7.1/10Also history and actionAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Shootfighter: Fight to the Death (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also actionNick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a "shootfighter" (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.
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X (1996)
★ 6.2/10Also actionIt's the year of destiny, and 15 year old Kamui Shiro, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence, having left when he was very young. He wants to be with his childhood friends, Fuma (his best…
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47 Ronin (2013)
★ 6.2/10Also actionKai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the…
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Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also actionShishio 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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Tokyo Fist (1995)
★ 6.8/10Also actionA businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Kojima might be having an affair with his fiancée Hizuru…
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Kingdom (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also action 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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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)
★ 7.5/10Also action and historyIn 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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Killing (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also actionIn mid-19th century Edo period, a masterless rōnin named Mokunoshin Tsuzuki resides in a peaceful village among those he helps. However, as the prevalent peace and tranquility are sure to be replaced by war and…
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Golden Kamuy (2024)
★ 7/10Also actionOn the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to find treasure mapped out on tattooed outlaws.
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Girls und Panzer der Film (2015)
★ 6.9/10Also actionWhen the Ministry of Education goes back on its promise to keep Ooarai Girls Academy open, the task of saving the five-mile-long Academy Ship from the wreckers falls to Miho and her barely-seasoned tankery team…
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Mumon: The Land of Stealth (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also action and historyRaised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into his…