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10 Best Movies Like The Great Killing

If you loved The Great Killing, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
13 Assassins

13 Assassins

1963★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Killing 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...

#2
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

1972★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Killing for fans of Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son,...

#3
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

1972★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Killing for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei....

#4
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

1974★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Killing for fans of Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the...

#5
Samurai Rebellion

Samurai Rebellion

1967★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Killing for fans of Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her....

#6
13 Assassins

13 Assassins

2010★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Killing for fans of Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 t...

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