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Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (1999)
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Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (1999)
Original name: 海賊版=
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Two best friends—Tatsuo, a retiring Yakuza member, and Kiyoshi, a cop—travel to the funeral of a woman they both loved.
Style: black and white, postmodern
Plot: dark humor, yakuza, satire, police officer, funeral, road trip, gangster, dead body, cop, corpse, body in a trunk, gunshot, postmodernism, dead body in car trunk
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and captivating films with plots about gangster, yakuza, murder, satire, mafia, gang and dark humor mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like Kaizokuban Bootleg Film: The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006), Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009), A Taxing Woman's Return (1988), Small Crime (2008), The King of Algiers (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.
Style: slapstick, slapstick comedy
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
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Style: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia
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Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Mr. Jack and Sweet Stephen cruise aimlessly through the streets of LA speculating about life, death, divine will and the force of power that predetermines their existence. Mr. Jack attempts to illustrate to his sidekick the delicate and natural ...
Style: talky, semi serious, humorous, dark, offbeat ...
Plot: murder, police detective, dark humor, police investigation, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, mentally unstable, serial killer, guilt, profanity, violent content, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: sex, nudity, gangster, satire, conspiracy, society, dishonesty, who done it, cons and scams, student life, culture clash, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: japan, asia
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Small Crime (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Cyprus, Greece
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Leonidas, a young, ambitious police officer, is assigned to a remote island in the Aegean Sea. He dreams of solving important crimes, but there are few to be found in the sleepy beach community where he is left to such menial chores. Each day at the ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, humorous, light
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Place: greece
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The King of Algiers (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Omar, better known as Omar the Strawberry, is an old-fashioned bandit. Forced to flee to Algeria, he makes a living out of petty crime, accompanied by his famous sidekick Roger. After decades of ruling the French criminal underworld, they must come ...
Style: thrilling, satirical, captivating, semi serious
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Place: algeria, sahara
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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
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
Style: controversial, neo noir, action thriller, crime drama, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
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: avant garde
Plot: yakuza, prostitution, gambling, animal, pig, poverty, u.s. navy, post war japan, criminal, female fight, shooting, dead body ...
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Action Family (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
Story: At work, Chris is a hardboiled no-nonsense detective who's investigating a series of brutal murders of jazz musicians. At home, he's a family man straight out of sitcom who has to satisfy every whim of his wife and kids.
Style: sitcom, parody, detective, twisted
Plot: pilot, cop, police officer, serial killer, jazz musician, family man, sing along
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48%
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The Moss (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Hong Kong cop is struggling for his survival in the underground world, a place filled with criminals and low life people like moss in rotting hell.
Style: heroic
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Postman Blues (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, action thriller, heroic, semi serious ...
Plot: yakuza, police officer, heroic bloodshed, postman, gangster, chase, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, danger, unfulfillment, workplace ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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46%
Die Musterknaben (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: No overview found.
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45%
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Refuge (2010)
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Duration: 121 min.
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