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10 Best Movies Like Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema

If you loved Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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As

2023★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Three years after the death of her beloved child, Elouise, Mara still feels her presence when she sits on the butterfly bedding in front of the jar with her ashes in it. Mara arran...

#2
Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison

2011★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After his capture for attempted assassination of the Raikage, leader of Kumogakure, as well as killing Jōnin from Kirigakure and Iwagakure, Naruto is imprisoned in Hōzukijou: A cri...

#3
Naruto Shippuden the Movie

Naruto Shippuden the Movie

2007★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema for fans of Animation. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Demons that once almost destroyed the world, are revived by someone. To prevent the world from being destroyed, the demon has to be sealed and the only one who can do it is the shr...

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1982★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema for fans of Crime. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent....

#5
Raya and the Last Dragon

Raya and the Last Dragon

2021★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema for fans of Animation. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save huma...

#6
Thinking XXX

Thinking XXX

2004★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

For a book project, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders took photographs of 30 stars of adult movies, each pair of photographs in the same pose, clothed and nude. This film rec...