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Movies Like Ashura's Legend Death Fight

If you liked Ashura's Legend Death Fight (2001), a movie directed by Hidetaka Nagahama, 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.

  1. 1ICHI

    ICHI (2008)

    ★ 6.8/10

    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…

  2. 2Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation…

  3. 3Zatoichi

    Zatoichi (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

  4. 4Tokyo Drifter

    Tokyo Drifter (1966)

    ★ 7.1/10

    After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable…

  5. 5Crying Freeman

    Crying Freeman (1995)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace…

  6. 6Kids Return

    Kids Return (1996)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world…

  7. 7Graveyard of Honor

    Graveyard of Honor (2002)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A barkeeper saves a yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.

  8. 8Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

    Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)

    ★ 7.3/10

    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…

  9. 9Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

    Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)

    ★ 7.1/10

    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.

  10. 10The Tale of Zatoichi

    The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)

    ★ 7.3/10

    The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.

  11. 11Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

    ★ 8/10

    An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

  12. 12Love and Honor

    Love and Honor (2006)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

  13. 13Azumi

    Azumi (2003)

    ★ 6.9/10

    In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an…

  14. 14The Outsider

    The Outsider (2018)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

  15. 15Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

    Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, scruffy…

  16. 16Altered Carbon: Resleeved

    Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10

    On the planet Latimer, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.

  17. 17The Fable

    The Fable (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10

    The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life" in Osaka.

  18. 18Falcon Rising

    Falcon Rising (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Chapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead.

  19. 19The Twilight Samurai

    The Twilight Samurai (2002)

    ★ 7.8/10

    Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects…

  20. 20Crows Zero

    Crows Zero (2007)

    ★ 7.1/10

    The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.

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