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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
Original name: 実録・安藤昇侠道(アウトロー)伝 烈火
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: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, crime drama, realistic, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, danger, betrayal, murder, gangster, vigilantism, police investigation, criminal's revenge, master criminal, chase, lone wolves, partner, rivalry, assassination attempt, samurai, mafioso, triad, badass, martial arts, psychopath, heroes, master warrior, chases and races, law enforcement ...
Time: contemporary
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: gangsters, partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, rivalry, violence, gang, murder, danger and criminal heroes mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Deadly Outlaw: Rekka: Triad Wars (2008), Agitator (2001), Dead or Alive 2 (2000), Graveyard of Honor (2002), Dead or Alive (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Triad Wars (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the midst of a violent gang war, a series of misfortunes threaten the fate of a gang boss and his mob.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, betrayal, kidnapping, police investigation, hitman, gangster, vigilantism, vengeance, dishonesty, criminal heroes, danger, gory ...
Time: 21st century
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Agitator (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story: When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death fo a prominent crime boss. Devastated by htis turn of ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Plot: yakuza, crime boss, organized crime, anger, rage, wrath, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, betrayal, mob boss, friendship, friend, assassin ...
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Dead or Alive 2 (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, friendship, friends, buddies, drug dealing, criminal heroes, danger, gangster, orphan, shooting, yakuza, triad ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Graveyard of Honor (2002)
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, crime drama ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, life is a bitch, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, rivalry, drug abuse, addiction, psychopath, violence, attempted murder, organized crime ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Dead or Alive (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down. Jojima attempts to start a gang war between the Triad and yakuza. Ryūichi and Jojima ...
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, controversial, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, massacre, drug, brutality, gratuitous violence, insanity, contests and competitions, danger, mafia, violence, exploitation ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, taiwan, asia
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The City of Lost Souls (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 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, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, organized crime, lovers on the run, love triangle, gang, rivalry, master criminal, danger, chase, drug dealing, hitman, martial arts ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is based around the interactions of a triad group with a police officer as well as opposing yakuza organizations. When the younger brother to a renegade police officer becomes the lawyer to the triad group, an argument between the two leads ...
Style: crime drama, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, triad, lawyer, police officer, gay, sex crime, big city, gangster, chase, police detective, dark humor ...
Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Violent Cop (1989)
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.
Style: neo noir, bloody, detective, bleak, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: japan, east asia, tokyo
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Ley Lines (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of ...
Style: crime drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, prostitute, organized crime, samurai, big city, triad, drug dealer, gang, gangster, friendship, intrigue, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sex and Fury (1973)
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 ...
Style: grindhouse, erotic, sensual, cult classic, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 1900s, 19th century, 1880s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Outrage (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man Ikemoto, head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to ...
Style: serious, tense, cynical, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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51%
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Blues Harp (1998)
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, blues, samurai, gay asian, gangster, danger, friendship, drug dealing, nightclub, gay interest, gay subtext, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia, okinawa japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Style: neo noir, bloody, cult classic, intense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 80s, year 1986, future, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, asia, taiwan, taipei
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Blood in the Streets (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 111 min.
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Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, action thriller, retro, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: italy, rome italy, europe, alps, paris france ...
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Black Rain (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Story: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, ...
Style: neo noir, detective, exciting, suspense, tense ...
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Nowhere to Hide (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Story: Over the next 72 days, Detective Woo will push his skills to the limits and his team of cops to the edge as they conduct a manhunt for an elusive criminal. Woo takes the law into his own hands as the hunt becomes personal, and as his target may get ...
Style: stylized, neo noir, fast, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
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Rain Fall (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, heroic ...
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Story: Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in ...
Style: tense, serious, suspense, exciting, unusual plot structure ...
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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
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Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Style: epic, neo noir, hood, grim, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, heroic ...
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Empire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
Style: intense, stylized, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
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Shatter (1974)
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Style: psychotronic, independent film, fast, realistic, serious ...
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Time: 70s
Place: hong kong, england, europe, asia, china ...
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War (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a violent clash of rival gangs. ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, action packed, fast paced ...
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Plot: revenge, hitman, vengeance, martial arts, assassin, mafia, fbi, presumed dead, tough law enforcer, betrayal, guilt, loss of friend ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
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100%
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The Gunman (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, vigilante, investigation, vengeance, police detective, haunted by the past, serial killer, law enforcement, danger, psychopath, murder, who done it ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, profanity, gangster, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Brother (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, California, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang. This is the first English film by Takeshi Kitano.
Style: harsh, intense, serious, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, mafia, culture clash, organized crime, gang, samurai, suicide, sibling relationship, family relations, gang war, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Prodigy (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: "The Prodigy" tells the story of small-time enforcer Truman Fisher's vicious conflict with a sadistic assassin who has chosen the unwilling Truman to be his successor. The assassin, who goes by the alias Rains and whose exploits have ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, riddles and clues, law enforcement, gang, danger, police investigation, rivalry, psychopath, murder, assassin, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Wolves (1971)
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: yakuza, samurai, mobster, gangster, gang, conspiracy, violent content, tough heroes, heroes, rivalry, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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