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Another Lonely Hitman (1995)
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Original name: 新・悲しきヒットマン
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 adapt within the confines of the new generations vision of honor. As he still garners a somewhat decent amount of respect he just tries to get by. Hooking up with a prostitute he's been in passing by with he begins to feel some sense of comfort. Upon stumbling across her being beaten down by her pimp, Tachibana can't just sit by and do nothing. So he commences in putting down an old school Yakuza ass whipping, thus beginning a showdown with the "now" boss, Sato.
Style:
crime drama
Plot:
yakuza, hitman, heroin, pimp, mob boss, humiliation, mob hit, mafia, sexual humor, vulgar, prostitute, junkie, escape, female nudity, death, murder, car chase, father daughter relationship, bare breasts, mother daughter relationship, shooting, brother sister relationship, drug use, father son relationship, code ...
Keyword:
vulgarity
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crime drama, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about murder, gangster, yakuza, violence, mafia, female nudity and organized crime mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Another Lonely Hitman: Gamblers in Okinawa (1971), Rainy Dog (1997), Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002), American Yakuza (1993), Ley Lines (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
Style:
crime drama, bloody, mind blowing, perverse, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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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, suspenseful, stylized, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitaire, he is hired to operate forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia leaded by Dino Campanela and ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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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:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
While rotting away in jail, Okamoto learns of the death of his beloved sister, Natsuko. Violently assaulted by a group of U.S. military men during a drunken joyride, she was found dead by local authorities. Haunted by the tragedy, Okamoto escapes ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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