10 Best Movies Like The King
If you loved The King, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The King for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Me...
Taboo
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The King 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...
Samurai Rebellion
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The King for fans of 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....
Shogun's Samurai
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The King for fans of 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...
New Tale of Zatoichi
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The King for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home....
Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The King for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local ga...