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3 Seconds Before Explosion (1967)
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3 Seconds Before Explosion (1967)
Original name: 爆破3秒前
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 1960s Japanese spy / heist / yakuza / action film with a typically complicated plot.
Style: grindhouse
Plot: yakuza, master thief, jewelry, jewel theft, judo, ex nazi, fistfight, shootout, loot, heist, gunfight, explosion, gun

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out grindhouse, realistic, serious and independent film films with plots about violence, shootout, yakuza, gangster, murder, explosion and fistfight mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like 3 Seconds Before Explosion: Bloody Territories (1969), Cruel Gun Story (1964), Kill Panther Kill (1968), Asian Cop: High Voltage (1994), A Colt Is My Passport (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bloody Territories (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets. Someone wants to stop them. Is ...
Plot: yakuza, lesbian sex, revenge, syndicate, bloodbath, betrayal, self sacrifice, lesbian, infidelity, loan shark, lesbianism, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Cruel Gun Story (1964)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: yakuza, heist, shootout, armored truck, ex convict, heist gone wrong, car, woman in a wheelchair, brother sister relationship, horse race, boxer, airport ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Kill Panther Kill (1968)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Italy, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the opening moments of Kill, Panther, Kill! we see the daring escape, during a prison transfer, of master criminal Arthur Tracy. Tracy has been in stir for four years after thieving a fortune in jewels worth three million dollars. Now his loyal ...
Style: grindhouse, poliziottesco, eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, jewel theft, jewelry, brother, secret agent, twin brother, rodeo
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Asian Cop: High Voltage (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Donnie Yen is back with a vengeance in this electric action thriller. The star of Fist of Fury, Hero and Highlander goes up against Hong Kong's deadliest gangsters in a no holds barred duel to the death. Donnie Yen has proven to be one of ...
Plot: martial arts, cop, combat, blood, death, brutality, violence, kung fu, bloodbath, gunfight, fight, karate ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
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.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, hitman, killer, rivalry, mob boss, mafia, samurai, assassin, criminal, professional, explosions, japanese mafia ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Gangland Odyssey (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A retired cop is summoned by his ex-boss to save his kidnapped son from the hands of a deadly Japanese triad. Action violence and a little romance makes GANGLAND ODYSSEY a promising treat!
Style: heroic
Plot: heroic bloodshed, yakuza, gunfight, sword duel, kung fu, sword fight, martial arts, son, blood, violence, brutality, gun fu ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards (1963)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
Style: grindhouse, fast, not serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, private detective, undercover, dishonesty, fighting crime, hidden identity, disorder, dark humor, working undercover, heist, shootout ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Massacre Gun (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio ...
Plot: yakuza, mobster, hitman, shootout, violence, gangster, female stockinged legs, woman slaps man, pantyhose, man slaps a woman
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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 ⇓
54%
Stray Cat Rock: Crazy Rider '71 (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Toshiya Fujita brings the five film Stray Cat Rock series to a highly enjoyable end. Like his previous instalment, Wild Jumbo, Beat ’71 is an easy going youth drama that does not follow Yasuharu Hasebe’s wild gang film path. Instead Fujita deals ...
Style: crime drama
Plot: yakuza, sexploitation, exploitation, prison, alcoholism, stealing, prison escape, theft, mayor, father son relationship, violence, bus ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Golgo 13 (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, Iran
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Live-action adaptation of the hit manga. Golgo 13, also known by the pseudonym Duke Togo, is a professional assassin. His age and birthplace are unknown and there is no consensus in the worldwide intelligence community as to his true identity. Most ...
Style: tension
Plot: yakuza, killer, monster, assassin, shooting, professional killer, violence, murder, death, killing, live action, slender attractive woman ...
Place: iran, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima. Akira Kobayashi's Takeda tries to keep ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: yakuza, battles, police, murder, gang war, assassination, mob boss, family relations, violence, arrest, gangster, shot to death
Time: 60s
Place: hiroshima japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
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.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, bloody, crime drama, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, female nudity, mafia, murder, police detective, organized crime, gang war, violence, working undercover, pimp, tough heroes, hitman ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Killer Force (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Switzerland, USA, UK, Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly manages to become very unpopular, particularly with Claire Chambers, a celebrated cover girl, ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, action thriller, independent film
Plot: desert, mission, criminal, exploitation, security guard, mercenary, helicopter, diamond, shooting, security, jewel theft, killing ...
Time: year 1976
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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss ...
Style: grindhouse
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Streetfighter (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Terry is a tough mercenary and a master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, bloody, stylized, perverse ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
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Plot: yakuza, sexploitation, biker, motorcycle, pink film, lesbian, violent, exploitation, girl gang, feminist, gang leader, motorcycle chase ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Bloody Brotherhood (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bloody Brotherhood didn't make much of a splash at the HK box office (just reaching that "magic" two-week theatrical run where most HK movies reach the break-even point) and it's gone largely ignored by fans, even though it stars ...
Style: heroic, poliziottesco
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Country: Japan
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Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
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Cop Target (1990)
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Mean Tricks (1992)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Hornsby, a recently retired FBI agent goes to South America to find his old partner.
Style: independent film, poliziottesco
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Armed Response (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to exchange ransom money to recover the statuette, but the trade ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: anthology, grindhouse, banned
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Lock 'n' Load (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Vietnam vet has nightmares about murder and zombies, and then discovers that he and other vets have been programmed to commit crimes and then kill themselves afterwards so they can't be traced. He investigates to try to find out who is ...
Style: splatter, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: vietnam veteran, shootout, police, betrayal, hospital, robbery, violence, murder, assassin, brainwashing, explosion
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: grindhouse, independent film
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Woman Sharper (1963)
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, offbeat, stylized, suspenseful
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Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Code Name: Diamond Head (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A failed Quinn Martin pilot for a series starring a Hawaii-based government counter intelligence agency run by the indomitable Aunt Mary. In this, his only adventure, Diamond Head has to prevent the evil Tree from stealing a deadly nerve toxin gas ...
Style: grindhouse, tv series pilot
Plot: bio weapon, multiple murder, kidnapping, gambling, spy, disguise, attempted murder, hanging, fistfight, boat chase
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Last Conflict (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Interpol officer Dickson Kwan is sent to Hong Kong to investigate in a fake passport forgery case and collaborates with officer Pau Sei and Lau Ting Kin. Due to different approaches on investigating, Dickson and Sei often get into conflicts. Later ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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