50 Movies Like Harakiri (1962) You Need to Watch Next
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver
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Kobayashi's 1962 masterpiece begins with a destitute ronin requesting a place to commit ritual suicide — then peels back a devastating story that turns the samurai code's honour inside out. Coldly beautiful and quietly furious, it's a slow-burning indictment of hypocrisy and cruelty masquerading as tradition. If its measured tension and moral weight gripped you, seek out classic samurai dramas that wield restraint and a single, shattering swordfight to indict an entire system.
If you loved Harakiri (1962) by Masaki Kobayashi, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Warrior, Sound of Freedom, Deepwater Horizon. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Movies Similar to Harakiri
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Deepwater Horizon
2016 · Peter Berg
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Bāhubali: The Beginning
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A Taxi Driver
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Apocalypto
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Chernobyl: Abyss
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The Count of Monte Cristo
2024 · Alexandre de La Patellière
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Twister
1996 · Jan de Bont
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Creed II
2018 · Steven Caple Jr.
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Southpaw
2015 · Antoine Fuqua
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014 · Ridley Scott
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991 · Kevin Reynolds
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Creed III
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Robin Hood
2010 · Ridley Scott
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The Smashing Machine
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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
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The Guardian
2006 · Andrew Davis
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Driven
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F1
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Ford v Ferrari
2019 · James Mangold
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Rush
2013 · Ron Howard
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Ran
1985 · Akira Kurosawa
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The Perfect Storm
2000 · Wolfgang Petersen
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The Edge
1997 · Lee Tamahori
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Gladiator II
2024 · Ridley Scott
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King Kong
2005 · Peter Jackson
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with t
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300: Rise of an Empire
2014 · Noam Murro
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The Wandering Earth
2019 · Frant Gwo
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Greyhound
2020 · Aaron Schneider
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Rambo: Last Blood
2019 · Adrian Grünberg
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Platoon
1986 · Oliver Stone
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The Karate Kid
1984 · John G. Avildsen
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Lone Survivor
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The Fugitive
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The Patriot
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Tears of the Sun
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Fearless
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Deep Impact
1998 · Mimi Leder
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Immortals
2011 · Tarsem Singh
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The Longest Day
1962 · Ken Annakin
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's A
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The Woman King
2022 · Gina Prince-Bythewood
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The Outpost
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Sniper: The White Raven
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