Movies like 1-Ichi

If you like "1-Ichi" you are looking for rough, serious and suspenseful movies about / with gang, vengeance, high school, mysterious character, kids in trouble, youth and misfit themes of Action, Drama and Thriller genre shot in Japan.

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1-Ichi (2003)

5.2

780

Original name: 1-イチ-

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 83 min.

Story: We follow Ichi during his high school years. Mr. Dai is the best fighter in school... whenever he fights Ichi is there and has a huge smile on his face. Mr. Dai thinks that Ichi is laughing at him but in fact he enjoys watching the violence that goes through the fights. Everyone is bullying, taunting and making fun of Ichi... even little kids from his karate class. Yet Ichi refuses to let go of his anger and fight others. Just when Mr. Dai is about to get Ichi, a new transfer student starts to make his own laws... by beating up everyone and breaking their bones! In a fight with the new student, Mr. Dai ends up on the ground, beaten and broken up from almost everywhere. It seems like this new guy wants to fight Ichi because supposedly he is the only one that could give him some challenge.

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high school

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mysterious character

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kids in trouble

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youth

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misfit

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Most similar movies to 1-Ichi

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about rivalry, revenge, vengeance, murder, deadly, danger and gang mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like 1-Ichi: Ichi the Killer (2001), Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002), The Russian Specialist (2005), Freeze Me (2000), Sukeban Deka The Movie (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.

Ichi the Killer (2001)

7.0

57K

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 129 min.

Story: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)

6.7

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..

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The Russian Specialist (2005)

5.5

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Germany, USA

Duration: 94 min.

Story: A Russian ex-hit man is called back to Russia for one last job. This time against his former employees, the Russian mob.

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Soo: Revenge for a Twisted Fate (2007)

6.0

407

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 122 min.

Story: Tae-soo tries to steal from a gang. The gang catches Tae-Soo's brother, Tae-Jin, instead. The incident causes the brothers to separate. Tae-Soo becomes a mob fixer and an assassin. Tae-Jin becomes a police detective. When a call brings the ...

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Freeze Me (2000)

6.2

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 101 min.

Story: Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover ...

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Sukeban Deka The Movie (1987)

6.2

224

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 93 min.

Story: After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, she accidentally bumps into a young man named ...

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Crows Zero II (2009)

7.2

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 133 min.

Story: Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the ...

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Headshot (2016)

6.3

15K

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Indonesia

Duration: 118 min.

Story: A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.

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19%

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forced sexual contact

violence spree

727

based on comic

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humiliation

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Sex and Fury (1973)

6.7

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 88 min.

Story: Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on ...

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Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009)

6.0

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 91 min.

Story: A debt collector for the mob (Academy Award(R)-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr.) finds his fate taking a series of treacherous turns after his powerful boss and mentor (Miguel Ferrer) is caught in a dangerous double cross with the most dangerous drug dealer ...

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Violent Cop (1989)

7.1

12K

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.

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19%

Monster (2014)

6.4

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 113 min.

Story: Bok-Soon (Kim Go-eun-I) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Bok-Soon may not be the brightest girl but what she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in uncontrollable rage. She’s infamously known as the “psycho ...

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19%

Avenging Force (1986)

5.8

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 104 min.

Story: Martial arts expert Matt Hunter was one of the most promising operatives in Army intelligence until his parents were killed by terrorists, and he retired to the family's farm in Louisiana to take care of his 12-year-old sister Sara and their ...

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19%

Ichi (2008)

6.5

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 120 min.

Story: Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the ...

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18%

Contraband (1980)

6.5

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Italy

Duration: 97 min.

Story: Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a graphic rape scene.

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18%

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Into the Sun (2005)

4.3

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: USA, Japan

Duration: 97 min.

Story: After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he ...

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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)

6.6

920

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 88 min.

Story: Agent Zero (Miki Sugimoto) is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's ...

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18%

Black Angel Vol. 1 (1998)

5.9

889

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 107 min.

Story: Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious ...

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18%

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The Principal (1987)

6.3

11K

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 109 min.

Story: Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean ...

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18%

Run and Kill (1993)

6.7

621

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 90 min.

Story: A man (Fatty) returns home to find his wife with another man. He goes to a bar and begins to drink, waking up the next day to find that he owes a mafioso money for killing his wife. Not wanting to pay the money, he enlists a malitia organization ...

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Villa Captive (2011)

3.8

336

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: France

Duration: 79 min.

Story: A young actress seeking a life away from adult movies moves to Florida insearch of a new identity. Her newfound peace is shattered when local thugsrecognize her.

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The Substitute (1996)

6.0

14K

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 114 min.

Story: After he did some jobs for CIA, ex-marine John Shale is visiting his high school love Jane. She's now a teacher in Columbus High School in Miami. Soon after his arriving Jane has her knee cap broken while jogging. After that, John decides to go ...

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18%

A Dangerous Place (1994)

5.3

489

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 97 min.

Story: When Ethan's older brother Greg is found dead, the police rule the case a suicide, but Ethan suspects foul play stemming from Greg's recent involvement with a martial arts team called the Scorpions. Ethan is also accomplished at martial ...

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Death Sentence (2007)

6.7

73K

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 105 min.

Story: Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when ...

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18%

Detention (2003)

4.1

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA, Canada

Duration: 98 min.

Story: A heroic high school teacher leads a band of students trapped in school by violent drug-runners.

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Toy Soldiers (1991)

6.6

24K

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 111 min.

Story: After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.

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18%

Muay Thai Fighter (2007)

6.2

755

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Thailand

Duration: 116 min.

Story: After learning the art of muay thai fighting from skilled masters, small town friends Piak (Akara Amarttayakul) and Phao (Thawatchai Phanpakdee) move their passion to Bangkok, where they become active in underground activities that put what ...

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17%

The Evil That Men Do (1984)

5.9

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Mexico, USA, UK

Duration: 90 min.

Story: Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist ...

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17%

Viktor (2014)

3.8

534

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: France, Russia

Duration: 134 min.

Story: After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, ...