Movies Like The Petrified Forest

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

1970·1h 44m·★ 6.8·Masahiro Shinoda

2 shared crewDir. Masahiro ShinodaDP: Kōzō Okazaki

Assassination

1964·1h 44m·★ 7.1·Masahiro Shinoda

Both star Shima Iwashita & Takeshi KusakaDir. Masahiro Shinoda

Killers on Parade

1961·1h 22m·★ 6.6·Masahiro Shinoda

Both star Shima Iwashita & Hiroshi MizushimaDir. Masahiro Shinoda

Lady Snowblood

1973·1h 37m·★ 7.6·Toshiya Fujita

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Red Beard

1965·3h 5m·★ 8.3·Akira Kurosawa

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

2003·1h 51m·★ 8.2·Quentin Tarantino

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Nobody Knows

2004·2h 21m·★ 8.0·Hirokazu Kore-eda

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The Naked Island

1960·1h 37m·★ 8.0·Kaneto Shindō

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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final

2021·2h 18m·★ 7.2·Keishi Otomo

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The Last Samurai

2003·2h 34m·★ 7.8·Edward Zwick

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Memoirs of a Geisha

2005·2h 26m·★ 7.3·Rob Marshall

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Vengeance Is Mine

1979·2h 20m·★ 7.6·Shōhei Imamura

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Kikujiro

1999·2h 1m·★ 7.7·Takeshi Kitano

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Lost in Translation

2003·1h 42m·★ 7.7·Sofia Coppola

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2021·1h 52m·★ 7.2·Nora Fingscheidt

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Battle Royale

2000·1h 53m·★ 7.5·Kinji Fukasaku

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Zatoichi

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Above the Rim

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How Good Is The Petrified Forest?

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