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10 Best Movies Like A Modern Samurai Village

If you loved A Modern Samurai Village, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Modern Samurai Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#2
Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones

2004★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Modern Samurai Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kama...

#3
Suzaku

Suzaku

1997★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Modern Samurai Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Econ...

#4
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Modern Samurai Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their ...

#5
Taboo

Taboo

1999★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Modern Samurai Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 t...

#6
Goyokin

Goyokin

1969★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Modern Samurai Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place....

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