If you loved Sword of the Beast, try Three Outlaw Samurai
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Hideo Gosha, and they sit in Action / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Sword of the Beast, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Three Outlaw Samurai is
You wander into a rain-lashed village where peasants have seized the magistrate's daughter and ask you to stand with them. Then the magistrate's guard shows up, led by two defectors who throw in with the rebels. The director, working in a decade when honor codes were collapsing into gunpowder, leaves you on a bridge where water and blood blur beneath the swords.

