Movies like Heat Wave 1991

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Heat Wave (1991)
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Heat Wave (1991)
Original name: 陽炎
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
Plot: sex, gambling, yakuza, murder, restaurant, tattoo, mafia, contest, elite, debt, revenge, female nudity, death, sword fight, fire, orphan, bathhouse, woman, casino, execution, family feud, nudity, traveler, gangster, nude ...
Place: japan
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and tense films with plots about murder, female nudity, yakuza, death, violence, nudity and gangster mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Heat Wave: The Yakuza Wives (1986), The Wolves (1971), Outrage Coda (2017), Agitator (2001), Massacre for an Orgy (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 5: Final Episode (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode is part five and the final installation of a series of yakuza films directed by Kinji Fukasaku. In the wake of a big police crackdown, Akira Kobayashi's icily sun- glassed Takeda attempts to ...
Plot: yakuza, prison, sex, battles, murder, mafia, mob hit, mob boss, political party, corruption, arrest, gang war ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Yakuza Wives (1986)
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by ...
Plot: yakuza, female yakuza, released from prison, girl fight, tattoo, fight, bare breasts, prison, marriage, love, murder, female nudity ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaoji) finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hit man and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi ...
Audience: manly
Plot: yakuza, hitman, female nudity, sex, mafioso, battles, mafia, samurai, revenge, psychopath, violence, prison ...
Time: 1950s
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66%
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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 ...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
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, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, betrayal, mafia, gang, female nudity, samurai, mafioso, battles, tough guy, humanity, japanese mafia ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place: hiroshima japan, japan, tokyo, asia
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Outrage Coda (2017)
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: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
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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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Massacre for an Orgy (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A police officer attempts to shut down an illegal girls-for-drugs operation (American version).
Plot: white slavery, gang, sex, nudity, playing footsie, prostitute, lesbianism, murder, lesbian, female nudity, police, drug
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Gamblers in Okinawa (1971)
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, grindhouse
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, exploitation, city, japanese man, mafia, mobster, gangster, gang war, hitman, murder, blood ...
Place: okinawa, okinawa japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Story of a Wild Elder Sister: Widespread Lynch Law (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Irezumi (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In this elegant proto-feminist shocker from Yasuzo Masumuro, a woman forced into prostitution wreaks her spidery revenge. A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's back. She and her lover are ...
Style: thought provoking, masterpiece
Plot: samurai, female nudity, yakuza, femme fatale, girl, prostitution, forced prostitution, vengeance, strangulation, kidnapping, prostitute, adultery ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Swallowtail Butterfly takes place in an alternate Japan, in a ghetto where immigrants from all over the world have come to live and make their fortune. The city is called Yentown, and it is much like Tokyo. Sixteen-year-old Ageha (Ito), a young girl ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, forgery, dysfunctional society, outsider, sex, melancholy, money, money laundering, illegal prostitution, gangster, immigrant, disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hunted City (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Commissario Paolo Ferro (Maurizio Merli) stars as a (typical) tough cop again. This time he returns to the city of Milan to go after a murder corporation. Acampora (Mario Merola) is believed to be the prime suspect although he later proves to be one ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, police raid, fire, gambling, massacre, pistol, mercilessness, sex, death, revenge, murder, robbery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Youth Killer (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Plot: nudity, female nudity, rape, running from police, bare chested male, dead body, family relations, parents, disposing of a dead body, assassination attempt, dreaming, crucifix ...
Place: japan
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The Oil-Hell Murder (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.
Style: jidai geki
Plot: edo period, debt, prostitute, bored wife, murder of a woman, cuckolded husband, river, cheating wife, unhappy wife, womanizer, arranged marriage, woman killed ...
Time: 18th century
Place: japan
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The Claudia Case (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress Márcia Rodrigues's sister, was found in the seashore. After Police investigation, it was found she had been ...
Plot: death, corpse, violence, criminal, female nudity, corruption, murder, crime investigation, murder of a nude woman, nudity, homicide, naked dead woman
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Gardenia (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: restaurant owner, city, exploitation, revenge, restaurant, murder, friendship, mafia, blackmail, italian restaurant, drug, hitman
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy, italy
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Last of the Wolves (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: yakuza, fighting crime, gangster, police detective, organized crime, mafioso, criminal gang, criminal, gang, mob hit, mafia, bandit ...
Place: japan, hiroshima japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Vengeance is Mine (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 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 ...
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Plot: serial killer, father son relationship, parents and children, on the run, prostitute, violence spree, violence, sex scene, killer, female nudity, sociopath, sex ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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
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Nympha (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A re-imagination of the Celso Ad Castillo classic, "Nympha" tells the story of an orphan woman named Nympha living in a backward province with a narrow minded aunt who is a religious fanatic.
Plot: female nudity, murder, sex, cemetery, woman, filipina, nudity
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Black Snow (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Black Snow tells the tale of a disturbed young man who, after spying on his mother with a black serviceman, finds himself unable to attain sexual arousal unless fondling a loaded gun. Later that night, he murders the GI before running amok through ...
Style: black and white
Plot: voyeur, prostitution, pink film, eroticism, rape turns to consensual sex, bare breasts, murder, confession, sex, african american, voyeurism, love ...
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36%
The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is ...
Plot: murder, confession, strangulation, strangled to death, friend
Place: japan
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35%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Junk Food consists of four intertwining stories. The first and fourth sections show the morning routine of an blind, old Japanese woman, waking up, buying bread and milk, praying at the family alter; however, it is the second segment where the true ...
Style: crying
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Place: japan, china, tokyo, kyoto japan
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35%
Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sam Connor kidnaps his young daughters, April and May, sells them to strangers, and accidentally kills his wife when she attempts to intervene. Sixteen years later, April is an out of control outlaw who has come into a life of drugs and crime, while ...
Style: detective, independent film
Audience: adult
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34%
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
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: political, psychological, serious, realistic, surreal ...
Plot: anarchist, anarchism, suicide, killing spree, death, murder, sexuality, yakuza, held captive, captive, anarchy, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Pericle (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wrong. Going on the run is his only option.
Style: suspense, touching, tense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: mafia, murder, organized crime, crime boss, mob boss, death, rivalry, gang war, betrayal, society, chase, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Scorpion: Double Venom (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Story: Nami Matsushima, a former doctor, is put in prison for murdering one of the men who raped and killed her sister. Now, faced with violent and lecherous prison gangs, an aggressively amorous warden, and with a friend on death row, Nami must steel ...
Plot: women in prison, sexploitation, badass female lead, nudity, dead sister, sister, scalpel, revenge, blood, women's prison, death, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Perfect Killer (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Betrayed by his girl and best friend, thief Harry Chapman (Lee Van Cleef) takes the fall for a racetrack robbery. While in prison, he is offered a chance to participate in an escape plan. What he doesn't know is that once he is on the outside, ...
Style: spaghetti western, poliziottesco
Plot: lgbt, murder, prison, shot in the groin, nudity, robbery, revenge, female nudity, homosexuality, attempted rape, hitman, killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Sexy Killer (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers.
Plot: drug addiction, exploitation, violence, prostitution, revenge, illegal drugs, drug dealer, sadomasochism, female hero, drug, justice, female fight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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