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10 Best Movies Like Assassin's Target: Iemitsu

If you loved Assassin's Target: Iemitsu, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

2001★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Assassin's Target: Iemitsu for fans of Action & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attack...

#2
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

2012★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Assassin's Target: Iemitsu for fans of Action & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing....

#3
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final

Rurouni Kenshin: The Final

2021★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Assassin's Target: Iemitsu for fans of Action & Drama & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 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....

#4
Samurai Assassin

Samurai Assassin

1965★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Assassin's Target: Iemitsu for fans of Action & Drama & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, ...

#5
Shogun's Samurai

Shogun's Samurai

1978★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Assassin's Target: Iemitsu for fans of Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Following 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...

#6
13 Assassins

13 Assassins

1963★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Assassin's Target: Iemitsu for fans of Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter...

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