Movies like Graveyard of Honor

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Graveyard of Honor (1975)
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Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Original name: 仁義の墓場
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter. He's banished to Osaka, where he picks up a drug habit. Through it all, he keeps his friends and enemies off balance with unpredictable behavior - and he seems indestructible.
Style: crime drama, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
Plot: yakuza, mafia, drug addiction, organized crime, prison, samurai, japanese mafia, city, big city, exploitation, gangster, cemetery, honor, gang, addiction, life is a bitch, vengeance, rivalry, sexual content, down on your luck, strong violent content, lone wolves, drug abuse, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 50s, 20th century, 40s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Graveyard of Honor

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about gangster, rivalry, gang, yakuza, organized crime, deadly and criminal heroes mostly in Crime, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Graveyard of Honor: Crows Zero (2007), Street Mobster (1972), Tokyo Drifter (1966), Family (2001), Beyond Outrage (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Crows Zero (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself to do it as he reminds him of his youth.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, semi serious, manga ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: gang, gang war, teenage life, youth, high school, yakuza, teenage gang, high school life, friendship, street fight, juvenile delinquent, rivalry ...
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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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
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73%
Street Mobster (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Japanese yakuza films certainly have a well-earned reputation of being violent and chaotic. Some are more frenetic than others and Street Mobster is unbelievable high on savagery and energy. It dawned the re-birth of the genre, telling the story ...
Style: bloody, exciting, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, female nudity, murder, prison, rape, japanese mafia, asian gangster, organized crime, mafia, sex, japanese man ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the ...
Style: surreal, avant garde, neo noir, aesthetic, colorful ...
Audience: manly
Plot: yakuza, hitman, gangster, betrayal, drifter, surrealism, gang, bar fight, mafia, killer, japanese mafia, assassin ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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46%
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Family (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, rivalry, gangster, dishonesty, master criminal, betrayal, organized crime, mafia, rape, assassin, nurse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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46%
Beyond Outrage (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, criminal heroes, law enforcement, rivalry, gang, danger, elimination, japanese mafia, power struggle, police, organized crime ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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41%
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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
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, cop, tough guy, japanese mafia, police, police brutality, nightclub, rough sex, gangster, interrogation, violence ...
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41%
Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Former Yakuza underling Kiryu Kazuma, who has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration, and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his Yakuza past. Unfortunately Kiryu's problems slowly escalate ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, heroic ...
Plot: yakuza, gang, gangster, danger, vengeance, bank, rivalry, hitman, heist, triad, japanese mafia, heroic bloodshed ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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40%
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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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38%
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Pale Flower (1964)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman who is out seeking thrills, and whose presence adds ...
Style: neo noir, noir, existential, crime drama, cynical ...
Plot: yakuza, gambling, casino, gangster, ex convict, samurai, mobster, organized crime, existentialism, jazz, mafia, hitman ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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35%
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
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32%
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
Plot: yakuza, gambling, casino, organized crime, gangster, violent content, rivalry, dishonesty, femme fatale, gang, danger, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Mafia (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and Robert Patrick headline this throwback action thriller set in 1975, and following a renegade cop who skirts the law in order to capture a ruthless crime boss.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, vengeance, tough heroes, criminal heroes, murder, police officer, love, drug dealer, graphic violence, black, profanity ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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30%
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
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30%
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Crazy Six (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Slovakia, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: gangster, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, rivalry, government agency, master criminal, life is a bitch, addiction, violence, crime boss, communism ...
Time: future
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
29%
If You Were Young: Rage (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: family relations, unemployment, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social differences, youth, society, hopes, gang, city life, innocence lost, friendship ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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29%
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Sonatine (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans ...
Style: bloody, neo noir, art house, stylized, controversial ...
Plot: yakuza, mafia, organized crime, beach, death, gang, medieval, gunfight, dark humor, asian gangster, criminal, revenge ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, east asia, asia, okinawa japan, okinawa ...
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28%
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Antikiller (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox is released from prison. He has been detained there as a result of planted incriminating evidence of unlawful investigation techniques. Setting accounts with Shaman - a big criminal boss, ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough ...
Plot: fighting crime, gang, criminal heroes, rivalry, brutality, murder, danger, criminal, criminal gang, law and order, bandit, smuggler ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
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28%
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The Five (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, organized crime, triad, big city, violence, gangster, murder, gang, robbery, debt, partner ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
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28%
Detective Doberman (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The burned remains of a young woman discovered in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The police comes to the conclusion that its the work of a pyromaniacal serial murderer. The murder victim is identified as Mayumi Tamaki, a native of Ishigaki, Okinawa. As the ...
Style: crime drama, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, martial arts, tough guy, cop, murder, gangster, rescue, urban, danger, fish out of water, disorder, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan, tokyo
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28%
Return of the Street Fighter (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is ...
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, disturbing, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, medieval, exploitation, kung fu, yakuza, karate, fight, knight, underground, vigilante, mixed martial arts, badass ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan
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27%
Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. The story takes place in one day, on the eve of an all out syndicate war. Through a twisted series of events, the interweaving narratives are put on an ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Plot: rivalry, partner, vengeance, police detective, police investigation, gang, partners against crime, criminal heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement, drug dealing, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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 ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
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26%
The Divine Move (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Professional baduk (go) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, gangster, vengeance, murder, dishonesty, rivalry, prison, violence, casino, monster, asian, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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26%
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The Big I Am (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, gangster, dishonesty, rivalry, criminal heroes, organized crime, criminal, nudity, strong violent content, profanity, ambition, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Blood on the Streets (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
Style: exciting, cynical, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, interwar period, criminal, mobster, gangster, violent content, loss of partner, gory, rivalry, dishonesty, violence spree, vengeance ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
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Consignment (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
Style: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, gangster, on the run, going straight, police investigation, starting over, gang, hitman, criminal's revenge, rivalry, buddies, law enforcement ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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