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Fireworks (1997)
35K
Original name: HANA-BI
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A police officer leaves the force in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into a depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Style:
bloody, emotional, bleak, art house, lyrical, touching, disturbing, sentimental, serious, rough ...
Plot:
police, yakuza, gangster, character study, dying, death, samurai, loss, love and romance, life is a bitch, loss of loved one, loss of partner, couple relations, law enforcement, fighting illness, organized crime, loneliness, illness, asian, melancholy, disability, beach, loan, visceral, robbery ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s, 1990s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji, india
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Most similar movies to Fireworks
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, stylized and weird films with plots about violence, death, blood, brutality, rivalry, murder and revenge mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Fireworks: Outrage (2010), All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), 3-Iron (2004), A Bittersweet Life (2005), Takeshis' (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
16K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man Ikemoto, head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to ...
Style:
serious, tense, cynical, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, gang member, gang, organized crime, gangster, hanging, criminal heroes, gang war, danger, rivalry, gory, merciless ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yuichi Hasumi and Shusuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yuichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, teen, depressing, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, music, alienation, high school, teenage life, social misfits, adolescence, friendship, youth, abuse, school ...
Time:
2000s, year 1999, year 2000, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, okinawa japan, asia, tokyo ...
Similarity:
100%
61K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. ...
Style:
philosophical, lyrical, contemplative, surreal, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
golf, motorcycle, relationships, melancholy, drifter, mission, abusive husband, love triangle, jealousy, existentialism, love story, love ...
Time:
year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, east asia, asia, seoul ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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, Heesoo, for fear that she may be cheating on ...
Style:
suspense, tense, bleak, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gangster, asian gangster, hitman, gunfight, fall in love, organized crime, brutality, vengeance, violent, betrayal, character study ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, ...
Style:
surreal, semi serious, stylized, psychedelic, meta ...
Plot:
yakuza, surrealism, dark humor, obsession, actor's life, lifestyle, identity crisis, showbiz, wannabe, lookalikes, audition, doppelganger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
25K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans ...
Style:
bloody, neo noir, art house, stylized, sincere ...
Plot:
yakuza, gangster, beach, organized crime, mafia, death, dark humor, gang, gunfight, epic battle, asian gangster, criminal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
japan, okinawa japan, east asia, asia, tokyo ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The movie is set in Hong Kong and the Philippines in 1960. Yuddy, or 'York' in English, is a playboy in Hong Kong and is well-known for stealing girls' hearts and breaking them. His first victim is Li Zhen who suffered emotional and ...
Style:
surreal, artsy, sexual, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
obsession, unrequited love, love, melancholy, asian, friendship, drinking, hotel, violence, abandoned baby, prostitute, seduction ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
hong kong, china, the philippines, asia, macau ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results.
Style:
bloody, neo noir, bleak, witty, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, violence, police corruption, yakuza, drug dealer, police officer, vigilante, crime boss, corrupt cop, criminal, vigilantism, hitman ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
japan, east asia, tokyo
Similarity:
31%
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26K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, California, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang. This is the first English film by Takeshi Kitano.
Style:
intense, harsh, serious, rough, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, mafia, culture clash, gangster, suicide, gang, organized crime, samurai, sibling relationship, family relations, interracial relations, gang war ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, japan, usa, california, tokyo
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Style:
bloody, art house, crime drama, neo noir, hood ...
Plot:
yakuza, revenge, gangster, homosexual rape, gang, mafia, anal rape, gang violence, drinking, tragic event, baseball, crime family ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, okinawa japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, gangster, power struggle, criminal heroes, danger, rivalry, law enforcement, gang, elimination, japanese mafia, organized crime, police ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
29%
81K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, stylized, exciting, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
assassin, female assassin, female killer, hitman, professional killer, woman with a gun, espionage, female agent, working undercover, spy, femme fatale, secret government organization ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, venice, europe, italy
Similarity:
100%
18K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif -- specifically, the kind practiced in Bunraku doll theater performances -- opening each section of his film with a story provided by the puppets and their masters, which relates thematically to the ...
Style:
emotional, surreal, lyrical, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love, obsession, renewed love, regret, culture clash, philosophy, suicide attempt, disfigurement, love and romance, mental illness, blind character, melancholy ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, india, tokyo
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ôtomo gets involved with new Yakuza battles after he comes back the Yakuza society.
Style:
disturbing, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, crime boss, organized crime, gangster, violence, mafia, gunfight, brutality, hitman, survival, murder, danger ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, jeju island
Similarity:
22%
53K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Zatôichi is a 19th century blind nomad who makes his living as a gambler and masseur. However, behind this humble facade, he is a master swordsman gifted with a lightning-fast draw and breathtaking precision. While wandering, Zatôichi discovers a ...
Style:
humorous, harsh, exciting, perverse, stylized ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, sword fight, master warrior, vengeance, medieval, violence, fencing, revenge, zatoichi, violent, swordsman ...
Time:
19th century, year 2003, 2000s, 1800s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Style:
suspense, black and white, intense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
police, ransom, samurai, child kidnapping, class differences, tragedy, secrets, visceral, character study, mistaken identity, police investigation, rescue ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s, post world war two
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
21%
253K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, clever, gloomy, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, tragedy, drug addiction, drug addict, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, grief, redemption, drug, loneliness, drug abuse, loss ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film is based around the interactions of a triad group with a police officer as well as opposing yakuza organizations. When the younger brother to a renegade police officer becomes the lawyer to the triad group, an argument between the two leads ...
Style:
crime drama, serious, realistic, exciting, bleak ...
Plot:
yakuza, sexual attraction, organized crime, chinese mafia, lawyer, gay, triad, police detective, police officer, girl on top, bare breasts, anal rape ...
Time:
90s
Place:
taiwan, japan, tokyo, asia, taipei
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers..
Style:
stylized, rough, suspenseful, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, hitman, danger, murder, gangster, betrayal, vigilantism, police investigation, criminal's revenge, chase, master criminal, lone wolves ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the ...
Style:
sincere, jidai geki, talky, touching, lyrical ...
Plot:
samurai, poverty, feudal japan, sword fight, asian history, friendship, love story, tragedy, character study, samurai era, visceral, assassination ...
Time:
19th century, 2000s, y2k, 1800s, year 2002
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mole, manhunt, vengeance, danger, law enforcement, criminal heroes, swat, husband wife relationship, protection, train, criminal, cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, breathtaking, touching ...
Plot:
parole officer, mute or deaf, thief, disappearance, deaf woman, loneliness, bartender, deafness, ex convict, relationships, opposites attract, workplace ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man (Shinya Tsukamoto) becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
Style:
black and white, neo noir, deep, cult classic, art house ...
Plot:
mental disorder, suicide, violence spree, samurai, extreme, cyberpunk, mental health, big city, nihilism, gang, punk rock, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things ...
Style:
disturbing, neo noir, depressing, bloody, surprise ending ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, violence, vengeance, torture, loss of loved one, suicide, brutality, tragedy, murder, gory, organ donation ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, y2k, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style:
neo noir, detective, sexy, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
loner, hitman, assassination, chase, professional killer, lone wolves, gangster, surveillance, police investigation, murder, assassin, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style:
suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, police, gangster, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, lone hero, multiple storylines, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s, 70s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After being cruelly set up by a crooked detective named Sugimi (Isao Natsuyagi), whom she loved, Nami Matsushima (aka Matsu the Scorpion) (Meiko Kaji) is sentenced to do hard time in a women's prison, which is run by sadistic and horny male ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse ...
Plot:
prison, women in prison, women's prison, fugitives, yakuza, female nudity, female prisoner, asian sex, vengeance, sexploitation, lesbian breast sucking, sexual humiliation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, exciting, captivating, surreal ...
Plot:
heroes, gangster, escapades, danger, parents and children, police, yakuza, filmmaking, samurai, asian, moving, asteroids and comets ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
86K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
vengeance, violence, revenge, vigilante, vigilantism, murder, violent, brutality, car, storytelling, character study, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
virginia, ethiopia, usa, delaware
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, visually appealing, neo noir ...
Plot:
violence, organized crime, gangster, mafia, bad mother, investigation, justice, complex characters, vengeance, character study, drug dealer, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, peru, melbourne, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
19%
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