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The Woman Sharper (1963)
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Original name: 関東無宿
Genre: Action, Crime
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 gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, offbeat
Plot:
yakuza, gangsters, gambling, organized crime, casino, gang, graphic violence, rivalry, femme fatale, dishonesty, criminal heroes, mysterious character, uninhibited rivalry, danger, deadly, scar, crime, gangster, crimes
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia
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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 rivalry, gangsters, yakuza, gang, deadly, criminal heroes and danger mostly in Crime, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like The Woman Sharper: Tokyo Drifter (1966), The Wolves (1971), Pale Flower (1964), Like a Dragon (2007), Graveyard of Honor (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the ...
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Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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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 ...
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
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69%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman who is out seeking thrills, and whose presence adds ...
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neo noir, cynical, realistic, serious, tense ...
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yakuza, gambling, gangsters, casino, ex convict, existentialism, police raid, isolation, samurai, organized crime, jazz, released from prison ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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63%
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 ...
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exciting, captivating, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
yakuza, gangsters, gang, vengeance, hitman, bank, track down, rivalry, suspense, heist, martial arts, video game ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely ...
Style:
gloomy, suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious ...
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yakuza, gangsters, mafia, organized crime, drug addiction, samurai, exploitation, city, prison, cemetery, honor, sexual content ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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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 ...
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tense, realistic, serious, rough, bloody ...
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Professional baduk (go) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his ...
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exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic
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boys' night
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gambling, vengeance, gangsters, murder, rivalry, dishonesty, prison, violence, monster, casino, suspense, fight ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, bleak, bloody ...
Plot:
yakuza, gangsters, gang, life is a bitch, rivalry, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, addiction, drug abuse, attempted murder, violence, psychopath ...
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
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suspenseful, serious, rough, tense, realistic ...
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gangsters, gang, dishonesty, rivalry, criminal heroes, organized crime, criminal, strong violent content, nude, unfulfillment, ambition, rise and fall ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Jo Dae-yeong is a police officer investigating a pickpocket ring with ties to the Yakuza. One day he rescues Baek Jang-mi from danger, only to discover that she is the boss of the gang he has been tracking.
Style:
rough, exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
femme fatale, gang, police investigation, police detective, rescue, dishonesty, master criminal, heroes, rivalry, redemption, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Asami returns exhausted after three years of intense training to become a yakuza hunter. She decides to visit her old master, Inokuma, who runs a bar. However, she finds his place in ruins and nothing is as it was when she left. As it turns out, the ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, exciting, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
As one of Suzuki's last fims, it is related to his 1967 Branded to Kill, either as a remake or sequel. The plots of both films involve a third-ranked hit man deposing the top-ranked hit man to claim the top rank.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, realistic, atmospheric, experimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Former Scissor Gang leader Eun-jin (Shin Eun-kyung), who now suffers from amnesia, nevertheless defends Jae-cheol (Jun Gyu Park), a restaurateur who employs her, from a gangster who wants his business.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, stylized, exciting
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The intertwined stories of an international Don in Malaysia, David Billa, chased by the cops, an Indian police officer, a woman who wants to avenge the death of her brother, and a lowly thief, Velu who shares with Billa, an unusual connection.
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suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting
Plot:
gangsters, law enforcement, rivalry, twists and turns, disorder, criminal heroes, hidden identity, working undercover, master criminal, undercover, switching roles, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
One of Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs.
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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33%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
To infiltrate a criminal organization responsible for the death of one of his colleagues, the Detective Tajima adopts the behavior of of a brutal thug and plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sung-chan is a top detective of the special crime squad. He is notorious for punishing the opponent who hurts his pride. When Hyun-min impersonates as Sung-chan and robs a cash transport car under the daylight, and seizes $10 billion worth of ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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