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Pale Flower (1964)
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Original name: 乾いた花
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
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, noir, cynical, black and white, existential, crime drama, tense, atmospheric, offbeat, serious ...
Plot:
yakuza, gambling, casino, ex convict, gangster, samurai, prison, japanese woman, chinaman, voice over narration, mafia, hitman, jazz, professional killer, organized crime, existentialism, police raid, released from prison, mobster, gambling house, life is a bitch, nightlife, ambition, city life, dishonesty ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Most similar movies to Pale Flower
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about gangster, organized crime, murder, gang, yakuza, mafia and hitman mostly in Crime, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pale Flower: Tokyo Drifter (1966), The Wolves (1971), The Woman Sharper (1963), Gamblers in Okinawa (1971), Sonatine (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 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 ...
Style:
surreal, colorful, aesthetic, avant garde, art house ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
yakuza, hitman, betrayal, gangster, drifter, surrealism, killer, bar fight, gang, mafia, loyalty, japanese mafia ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
crime drama, realistic, serious, stylized, rough ...
Plot:
yakuza, samurai, mobster, gang, gangster, violent content, conspiracy, tough heroes, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, society, criminal heroes ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
56%
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, stylized, offbeat, suspenseful
Plot:
yakuza, gambling, casino, crime family, organized crime, gangster, violent content, mysterious character, uninhibited rivalry, danger, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
asia, japan
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51%
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, exciting, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
yakuza, organized crime, betrayal, mafia, gang, gang war, crime family, nude girl, tough guy, humanity, battles, japanese mafia ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Style:
crime drama, brutal, dark, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
yakuza, organized crime, crime family, gang warfare, violence, power struggle, underworld, loyalty, revenge, moral ambiguity, honor, machismo ...
Time:
70s
Place:
okinawa japan, tokyo
Similarity:
39%
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:
allegory, political, tense, surreal, realistic ...
Plot:
anarchism, anarchist, suicide, murderer, killer, killing spree, sexuality, murder, death, yakuza, held captive, captive ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
38%
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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:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
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:
perverse, bloody, mind blowing, crime drama, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, hitman, professional killer, gang, organized crime, triad, samurai, assassin, crime family, killer, contract killer, big city ...
Time:
90s
Place:
taiwan, asia, taipei
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Charles, a sixty-something career criminal, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned ...
Style:
noir, neo noir, crime drama, tense, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, caper, casino, thief, bag of money, crime gone awry, planning, ex convict, heist gone wrong, seaside, elderly man, robbery ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
cannes, france, cote d'azur, french riviera, europe ...
Similarity:
37%
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:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
murder, embezzlement, prison, money, obsession, criminal heroes, betrayal, political corruption, materialism, martial artist, jail, desire ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
No overview found
Style:
crime drama, tense, melancholic, noir, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hitman, organized crime, mafia, gangster, betrayal, violence, loneliness, tragic romance, character study, italian immigrant, urban, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
36%
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:
35%
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, suspense, tense, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
yakuza, gang, gangster, danger, vengeance, hitman, bank, rivalry, japanese mafia, triad, heroic bloodshed, video game ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Style:
neo noir, clever, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
gambling, poker, mafia, addiction, friendship, casino, voice over narration, underdog, card playing, buddies, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
yakuza, gangster, violent content, police corruption, gang, rivalry, police investigation, vengeance, drug dealing, chaos and mayhem, hitman, contests and competitions ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
tokyo, asia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Style:
neo noir, avant garde
Plot:
yakuza, prostitution, call girl, street walker, gambling, animal, pig, u.s. navy, poverty, post war japan, female fight, military base ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s, post world war two
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Is it just another evening at the hugely popular Italian restaurant of proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa in New York? Anything but as tonight's guests include; a local police detective and his wife specially invited by the owner; on the ...
Style:
witty, stylized, realistic, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
gambling, gangster, hitman, mafia, cooking, organized crime, crime gone awry, complex characters, violent content, lifestyle, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.
Style:
psychological, intense, atmospheric, twisted, period drama
Plot:
lesbian, revenge, murder, jealousy, trauma, loss, tragedy, lgbt, betrayal, obsession, guilt, seduction ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Lou, a small time gangster who thinks he used to be something big, meets and falls for a sexy casino employee named Sally. She needs his help realizing her dream of going to Monte Carlo, a symbol of the glamorous life that she has been looking for ...
Style:
cult classic, neo noir, realistic, aesthetic, cynical ...
Plot:
casino, gangster, gambling, murder, older man younger woman relationship, drug, voyeurism, mafia, mobster, cocaine, passion, redemption ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, philadelphia, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city, california ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic ...
Style:
freeze frame, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, prostitute, father son relationship, violence, psychopath, sex scene, brutality, murder, lover lover relationship, father in law daughter in law relationship, womanizer, strangulation ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1979, 70s, 1930s ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Style:
intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rise and fall, gangster, violence, organized crime, gang, torture, revenge, psychopath, mafia, betrayal, violent, brutality ...
Time:
year 2000, future, 60s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for advancement, as well as by his bodyguards growing jealousy ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, gay asian, gay, jealousy, mafia, musician, organized crime, bartender, samurai, gangster, drug dealing, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
asia, japan, okinawa japan
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to make it and become embroiled in misunderstandings, gangster brawls and police raids.
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gangster, nightclub, kidnapping, love triangle, friendship, gang, betrayal, city life, urban, dishonesty, politics, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
asia, china
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Titta di Girolamo has been living in a small hotel in Lugano for ten years, he leads a dull and rigid live and has apparently lost his capability to feel human emotion. This all changes when he decides to talk to Sofia, the Barmaid.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, tense, suspenseful, cerebral ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, loneliness, fall in love, insomnia, age difference, haunted by the past, unlikely couple, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, manipulation, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
sicily, europe, italy, switzerland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino ...
Style:
cult classic, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, hitman, crime family, gang, courtroom drama, gangsta, italian mafia, organized crime, cosa nostra, professional killer, italian gangster ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, yakuza, organized crime, homosexual, gay love, crime family, triad, big city, violence, gangster, murder, gang ...
Time:
90s
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
24%
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:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A hitman for the Sicilian Mafia, Salvo is solitary, cold and ruthless. When he sneaks into a house to eliminate a man, he discovers Rita, a young blind girl who powerlessly stands by while her brother is assassinated. Salvo tries to close those ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
hitman, mafia, gang war, blind girl, murder, danger, sicilian mafia, fall in love, blind woman, couples, girl, professional killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, sicily
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian ...
Style:
disturbing, harsh, atmospheric, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, criminal's revenge, organized crime, lovers on the run, love triangle, gang, chase, rivalry, drug dealing, master criminal, danger, hitman ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, brazil
Similarity:
23%
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