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The Wolves (1971)
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The Wolves (1971)
Original name: 出所祝い
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.
Style: crime drama, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
Plot: yakuza, samurai, mobster, gang, gangster, heroes, murder, conspiracy, rivalry, society, dishonesty, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, tough heroes, violent content, death, tradition, pardon, released from prison, graphic violence, mob, deadly, crime, crimes, release from prison
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 20s
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about gangster, rivalry, criminal heroes, gang, deadly, organized crime and murder mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Wolves: The Woman Sharper (1963), Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2007), Beyond Outrage (2012), Family (2001), Witness Protection (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Woman Sharper (1963)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of ...
Style: serious, realistic, offbeat, stylized, suspenseful
Plot: yakuza, gambling, casino, organized crime, gangster, violent content, rivalry, dishonesty, femme fatale, gang, danger, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Former Yakuza underling Kiryu Kazuma, who has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration, and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his Yakuza past. Unfortunately Kiryu's problems slowly escalate ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, heroic ...
Plot: yakuza, gang, gangster, danger, vengeance, bank, rivalry, hitman, heist, triad, japanese mafia, heroic bloodshed ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Style: grindhouse, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, betrayal, mafia, gang, female nudity, samurai, mafioso, battles, tough guy, humanity, japanese mafia ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place: hiroshima japan, japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Beyond Outrage (2012)
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, noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, criminal heroes, law enforcement, rivalry, gang, danger, elimination, japanese mafia, power struggle, police, organized crime ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Family (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, rivalry, gangster, dishonesty, master criminal, betrayal, organized crime, mafia, rape, assassin, nurse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story of a Wild Elder Sister: Widespread Lynch Law (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
Place: asia, japan
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Witness Protection (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career criminal Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore); on the outs with the mob and facing ...
Style: crime drama, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witness protection program, organized crime, gang, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, criminal heroes, rivalry, ghost, couple relations, murder, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Gunrunner (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 1926. The Chinese Civil War. Drifter Ted Beaubien is captured and forced to witness his girlfriend's execution. He finally escapes and vows to avenge her death by taking on a deadly mission to buy guns abroad and smuggle them back. Arriving in ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: couples, exploitation, gang, gangster, twists and turns, kidnapping, arms dealing, dishonesty, criminal heroes, dangerous attraction, rivalry, intrigue ...
Time: year 1989, 1920s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Witness to the Mob (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
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Style: cult classic, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Street Mobster (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Japanese yakuza films certainly have a well-earned reputation of being violent and chaotic. Some are more frenetic than others and Street Mobster is unbelievable high on savagery and energy. It dawned the re-birth of the genre, telling the story ...
Style: bloody, exciting, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three childhood friends join the Hong Kong Triads only to discover that fame and fortune will ultimately break them apart as only one can become the leader of the gang.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Plot: triad, gangster, gang, rivalry, ambition, criminal heroes, buddies, friends, criminal underworld, bandit, gang leader, criminal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sleepless Town (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 122 min.
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Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 104 min.
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Duration: 109 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: cult classic, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
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Bummer 2 (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
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Style: realistic, serious, stylized, rough, suspenseful ...
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Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
Style: crime drama, bloody, mind blowing, perverse, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, hitman, gang, organized crime, triad, big city, contract killer, japanese mafia, assassin, samurai, killer, prostitute ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 96 min.
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Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Grand Pardon (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
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Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
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Style: tense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Mobsters (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Style: talky, suspense, intense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mobster, gangster, organized crime, friendship, betrayal, greed, murder, criminal heroes, blind ambition, dishonesty, gang, mob boss ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Johnny Virus (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: serious, futuristic, rough, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: heroes, vengeance, rivalry, assassination, criminal heroes, danger, chaos and mayhem, mob boss, mob hit, anti hero, chainsaw, deadly
Time: 1940s, future
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what ...
Style: political, psychological, serious, realistic, surreal ...
Plot: anarchist, anarchism, suicide, killing spree, death, murder, sexuality, yakuza, held captive, captive, anarchy, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
American Born (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A teenager who is obsessed with gangster movies believes himself to be a real gangster after his father is murdered.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, mafia, teenage life, tough heroes, unlikely criminals, obsession, rivalry, vengeance, gangster, teenager, death of father, father ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Borsalino (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: europe, france, south of france, marseille, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Dillinger and Capone (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. ...
Style: realistic, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, master criminal, fighting crime, missing person, kidnapping, law enforcement, manhunt, crime gone awry, obsessive quest, rivalry, folk hero, criminal heroes ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1935, year 1940
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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