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Pale Flower (1964)
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Original name: 乾いた花
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 spice to the staid masculine underworld rituals. Muraki becomes her mentor while simultaneously coping with the shifts of power that have affected the gangs while he was interred. When he notices a rogue, drug-addicted young punk hanging around the gambling dens, he realizes that Saeko's insatiable lust for intense pleasures may be leading her to self-destruction.
Style:
neo noir, cynical, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, noir, offbeat
Plot:
yakuza, gambling, gangsters, casino, ex convict, mafia, samurai, hitman, jazz, organized crime, isolation, existentialism, police raid, released from prison, prison, japanese woman, mysterious woman, chinaman, gambling house, life is a bitch, nightlife, ambition, city life, dishonesty, unfulfillment ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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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 gangsters, yakuza, rivalry, gang, samurai, murder and organized crime mostly in Action, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Pale Flower: Tokyo Drifter (1966), The Woman Sharper (1963), Graveyard of Honor (1975), Street Mobster (1972), Beyond Outrage (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 88 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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