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Movies that feel likeLady Snowblood (1973)

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

If you loved Lady Snowblood, the closest films we have are A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Outfit (1973) and Rolling Thunder (1977). All three share Lady Snowblood's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shogun Assassin (1980).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Toshiya Fujitakineticgrittycontemplativerelentless
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A Better Tomorrow
1986 · dir. John Woo
🍅 95%★ 7.4action · crime · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

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The Outfit
1973 · dir. John Flynn
🍅 86%★ 7crime · drama

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Lady Snowblood does

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

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Rolling Thunder
1977 · dir. John Flynn
🍅 82%★ 6.9drama · thriller · action

The same mix in both: momentum, then grit

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Lady Snowblood does

A recently-returned Vietnam POW loses his family and his right hand during a violent home invasion, and seeks retribution against those responsible.

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A Bittersweet Life
2005 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 100%★ 7.4action · drama · crime

Contemplative where it counts, relentless underneath

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.

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New Police Story
2004 · dir. Benny Chan
🍅 63%★ 6.9action · thriller · crime

Kinetic action in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb out of the bottle and track down the gang and its ruthless leader.

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The Virgin Spring
1960 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 88%★ 8drama · history

Both are built on the same subject: rape and revenge

The difference: Trades the momentum of Lady Snowblood for an angle of its own

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

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The Punisher
2004 · dir. Jonathan Hensleigh
🍅 30%★ 6.4action · crime · drama

Crime built on grit, twice over

When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.

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Fist of Fury
1972 · dir. Lo Wei
★ 7.2drama · action · thriller

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.

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In the Fade
2017 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 75%★ 7.1drama · crimePrime Video

Both lean on relentlessness more than on crime

Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

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Four Brothers
2005 · dir. John Singleton
★ 6.8action · crimeParamount+

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

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Game of Death
1978 · dir. Robert Clouse
🍅 38%★ 5.9drama · action · thriller

Another one that scratches it

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

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Shogun Assassin
1980 · dir. Robert Houston
🍅 82%★ 7.3action · adventure

Both lean on relentlessness more than on action

A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of vengeance.

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