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Movies that feel likeHarakiri (1962)

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

If you loved Harakiri, the closest films we have are Ran (1985), 13 Assassins (2010) and Sholay (1975). All three share Harakiri's kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shogun Assassin (1980).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Masaki Kobayashikineticcontemplativeepicrelentlessmelancholy
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Ran
1985 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 96%★ 8.2action · drama · history

Both are working the same pair: revenge, seppuku

The difference: Trades the melancholy of Harakiri for an angle of its own

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

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13 Assassins
2010 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 95%★ 7.5adventure · drama · actionPrime Video

Two things both keep coming back to: suicide and japan

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Harakiri does

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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Sholay
1975 · dir. Ramesh Sippy
🍅 95%★ 8.1action

Kinetic where it counts, relentless underneath

After his family is slain by notorious bandit Gabbar Singh, former Inspector Thakur Baldev Singh enlists low-level outlaws Jai and Veeru to capture Gabbar and seek revenge.

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The Virgin Spring
1960 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 88%★ 8drama · history

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

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Shogun Assassin
1980 · dir. Robert Houston
🍅 82%★ 7.3action · adventure

Epic action, and it commits to that

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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Lady Snowblood
1973 · dir. Toshiya Fujita
🍅 100%★ 7.6action · crime · dramaMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: japan

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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47 Ronin
2013 · dir. Carl Rinsch
🍅 16%★ 6.3drama · action · fantasyStarz

The same two preoccupations: samurai, and ronin

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Kai—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 warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

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Fist of Fury
1972 · dir. Lo Wei
★ 7.2drama · action · thriller

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.

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Winter Light
1963 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 77%★ 8drama

One thread runs through both: suicide

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 96%★ 7.8adventure · drama · actionPrime Video

Both lean on momentum more than on history

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

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Red River
1948 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 100%★ 7.7western · drama · adventure

Common ground: black and white

Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.

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The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 91%★ 7.8western

Melancholy action in both cases

After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.

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