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Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970)
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Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970)
Original name: 野良猫ロック マシン・アニマル
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.
Style: crime drama, psychedelic
Plot: yakuza, sexploitation, exploitation, kidnapping, lsd, drug deal, nightclub singer, girl gang, rival gang, biker gang, escape, samurai, shot in the leg

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crime drama, grindhouse, serious and realistic films with plots about yakuza, sexploitation, exploitation, violence, gangster, murder and female nudity mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal: Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974), Zero Woman: The Accused (1997), Dead or Alive (1999), Black Angel 2 (1999), Gamblers in Okinawa (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found it's way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and between boyfriends. But she has to defend her choices the hard way, as her triumph and power ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: sexploitation, yakuza, boss, exploitation, girl gang, sex scene, topless woman, biker gang, single parent, motorcycle, ransom, car chase ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The first part of the Nora-neko rokku ("Alley Cat Rock") series was originally Nikkatsu Studios' answer to the rivaling Toei Studios' Delinquent Boss series, but spawned four sequels thanks to its popularity. Onna banchô, the ...
Style: crime drama
Plot: yakuza, sexploitation, biker, motorcycle, pink film, lesbian, violent, exploitation, girl gang, feminist, gang leader, motorcycle chase ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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 ⇓
90%
Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (1970)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mako and her girl friends enter a dispute with rival street gangsters The Eagles, a band of racist macho pigs led by the evil Baron, who hate half-breeds (descendents of afro-American and Japanese couples). When one of the girls start dating a ...
Style: crime drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, sexploitation, exploitation, hardcore, gangster, rape and revenge, rape, society, juvenile delinquency, vengeance, vigilantism, rivalry ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Agent Zero (Miki Sugimoto) is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's ...
Style: grindhouse, controversial, disturbing, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, sexploitation, exploitation, fraternity, revenge, pink film, gangster, martial arts, samurai, woman, vigilante, rapist ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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
Plot: yakuza, samurai, martial arts, sexploitation, gambling, exploitation, erotica, revenge, pink film, tattoo, rape, murder ...
Time: 70s
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to expose corrupt practices. She escapes from jail but is captured and sent back, resulting in the rest of the inmates being punished, added to which of ...
Plot: female prisoner, badass female lead, sexploitation, warden, cell, sleaze, prison, exploitation, escape, surprise, murder, female criminal ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Zero Woman: The Accused (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Rei, the deadly but reluctant assassin for the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police Department, befriends a young man after she sees him cruising a gay bar looking for johns. After he gets beaten up by a group of street thugs, she takes him in to live ...
Style: crime drama
Plot: female assassin, woman, yakuza, sexploitation, butt, gay bar, smoking, elevator, violence, cigarette smoking, female nudity, female killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Black Angel 2 (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mayo, the Black Angel, is ordered to assassinate a powerful syndicate leader. The hit goes awry, however, as the crime boss' bodyguard steps in the way. It's none other than Yamambe, who once rescued Mayo from a rape and has lived in her ...
Style: crime drama
Plot: yakuza, woman with a gun, killer, hitman, contract killer, big city, female assassin, hospital, rape, revenge, alcoholic, attempted rape ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
New Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, badass female lead, female prisoner, superhero, sexploitation, exploitation, rape and revenge, rape, female protagonist, violence, women's prison ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
40%
Yakuza-Busting Girls: Final Death-Ride Battle (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story is about a woman named Asami who is tortured and left for dead by a Yakuza group, only they failed to finish her off, and she staggers back from the grave, literally. Bruised and battered, Asami seeks refuge at her old gang until such time ...
Style: splatter
Plot: yakuza, female fight, sexploitation, monster, martial arts, hot chick, japanese girl, revenge, organized crime, sword, torture, shooting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Rica 2: Lonely Wanderer (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica looks into a ship that exploded and everyone who survived this disaster who comes in contact with her ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: exploitation, sexploitation, badass female lead, machine gun, massacre, rape, suicide, karate, knife fight, gunfight, avenger, nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In this installment of the Zero Woman series, Rei, the number-one assassin of the Tokyo Police Department's secret Zero Division, has been assigned to take out a notorious gangster responsible for dozens of murders. At the same time, she must ...
Style: crime drama
Plot: woman, yakuza, sexploitation, female assassin, femme fatale, east asian woman, weapons, con artists, japanese police, japanese woman, smuggler, asian woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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 ⇓
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Another Lonely Hitman (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After serving 10 years in prison due to a drug-induced assassination of a rival gang boss Tachibana (Ryo Ishibashi) enters a world that's nothing like it was when he went in. Once a respected and feared Yakuza mastermind, he now must try and ...
Style: crime drama
Plot: yakuza, pimp, mob boss, heroin, humiliation, mob hit, hitman, mafia, sexual humor, vulgar, released from prison, shooting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Yakuza (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...
Style: neo noir, intense, harsh, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, kidnapping, friendship, culture clash, organized crime, rescue, sword fight, mafia, haunted by the past, unrequited love, medieval ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: japan, kyoto japan, asia, los angeles, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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
Plot: yakuza, female yakuza, nun, martial arts, revenge, sexploitation, murder, exploitation, erotica, forced sex, bondage, gambler ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, 1880s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Black Angel Vol. 1 (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious ...
Style: neo noir, crime drama, serious, realistic, exciting ...
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Time: 90s, 20th century
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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 ⇓
30%
Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to ...
Plot: female yakuza, gambling, yakuza, revenge, billiards, sexploitation, samurai, casino, woman, swordplay, girl gang, smoking ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Flower and Snake 5: Rope Magic (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Masayuki Asao's "Flower and Snake 4:Rope Magic" tells the story of the gambler,who is unable to pay his loan.His wife and daughter are kidnapped by Yakuza gang and subjected to many days of torture and sexual degradation.Typically ...
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The Girl from Pussycat (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A nihilistic look at mistreated women
Style: erotic
Plot: sexploitation, teenage gang, girl gang, lesbian relationship, bank robber, girl, nudity, armed robbery, bank robbery, bare breasts, exploitation, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Rica (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.
Style: grindhouse
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The Streetfighter's Last Revenge (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
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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
Plot: yakuza, gang member, organized crime, gangster, hanging, gang war, danger, rivalry, gory, merciless, criminal's revenge, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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
Plot: yakuza, gangster, organized crime, survival, danger, violence, mafia, gunfight, murder, hitman, brutality, gang ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan, jeju island
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
She-Devils on Wheels (1968)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An all-female motorcycle gang, called 'The Maneaters' hold motorcycle races, as well as terrorize the residents of a small Florida town, and clash off against an all-male rival gang of hot-riders.
Style: cult classic, independent film, semi serious, rough, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: girl gang, biker, exploitation, sex party, motorcycle, bike, knife fight, decapitation, hardcore, scam, strong female lead, revenge ...
Time: 60s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In at least 6 movies by director Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara played a yakuza thug. This time, he carries a badge but his character hasn't lost his distaste for double-dealing bosses and authority figures who are out to cover their own butts. ...
Style: crime drama, detective
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