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Gamblers in Okinawa (1971)
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Gamblers in Okinawa (1971)
Original name: 博徒外人部隊
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: grindhouse, crime drama
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, mafia, city, japanese man, exploitation, mobster, gang war, gangster, hitman, murder, blood, released from prison, samurai, old friend, mob, sunglasses, one armed man, release from prison
Place: okinawa, okinawa japan
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and crime drama films with plots about gangster, murder, mafia, yakuza, organized crime, violence and gang mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Gamblers in Okinawa: The Blood of Wolves (2018), The Wolves (1971), Outrage Coda (2017), Graveyard of Honor (1975), The Death Collector (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Blood of Wolves (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: yakuza, police, gang warfare, japanese police, fighting crime, investigation, gang war, partners against crime, partner, crime investigation, disappearance, police detective ...
Time: 80s
Place: hiroshima japan, japan
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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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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 ⇓
28%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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 ⇓
26%
The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 3: Proxy War (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The film is set in 1960, fifteen years after the end of the end of World War II. Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), the protagonist of the first film in the series, has managed to separate from the Yamamori family, create his own small family, and ...
Plot: yakuza, battles, gang war, hitman, betrayal, voice over narration, female nudity, foreplay, violence, murder, police officer, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima. Akira Kobayashi's Takeda tries to keep ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: yakuza, battles, police, murder, gang war, assassination, mob boss, family relations, violence, arrest, gangster, shot to death
Time: 60s
Place: hiroshima japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Graveyard of Honor (1975)
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 ...
Style: crime drama, stylized, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: yakuza, mafia, organized crime, drug addiction, prison, japanese mafia, city, exploitation, big city, samurai, gangster, cemetery ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century, 50s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Death Collector (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, exploitation, mobster, twin towers, serial killer, italian mafia, crime wave, gangster, hitman, kids in trouble, disorder ...
Time: 70s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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
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22%
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Rainy Dog (1997)
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: yakuza, hitman, gang, organized crime, triad, big city, contract killer, japanese mafia, assassin, samurai, killer, prostitute ...
Time: 90s
Place: taiwan, asia, taipei
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22%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Wolves, Pigs & Men (1964)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is not invited. Jiro meanwhile is planning a big job - steal 40 million in cash and drugs, ...
Plot: yakuza, success, torture, robbery, sibling relationship, drug, shootout, rat, surveillance, released from prison, angry mob, slum ...
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Witness to the Mob (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino ...
Style: cult classic, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, hitman, courtroom drama, gang, mobster, cosa nostra, italian mafia, organized crime, gangsta, legal action, witnessing a crime, rivalry ...
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Mobsters (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Style: talky, suspense, intense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mobster, gangster, organized crime, friendship, betrayal, greed, murder, criminal heroes, blind ambition, dishonesty, gang, mob boss ...
Time: 1920s, year 1991, 1910s, 1930s, year 1917
Place: new york, israel, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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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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20%
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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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 ...
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This Thing of Ours (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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Getting Gotti (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The fall of mob boss John Gotti
Plot: mafia, lawyer, italian mafia, female lawyer, true crime, mobster, jury, courtroom, prosecutor, gangster, italian american, mob
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Mob Town (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the country converged on the sleepy town to discuss upcoming ...
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, tense
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, mob hit, organized crime, crime boss, gangster, conspiracy, social climbing, hitman, brutality, family relations, friendship ...
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19%
Gone with the Pope (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: GONE WITH THE POPE stars Duke Mitchell as Paul, a gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the pope and charge "a dollar from every Catholic in the world" as the ransom. Shot in 1975 as KISS THE RING, GONE WITH THE POPE was unfinished at ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse, retro ...
Plot: criminal, violence, revenge, gangster, hitman, kidnapped man, betrayal, organized crime, abduction, kidnapper, salvation, redemption ...
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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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19%
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 ...
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Place: japan, asia
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Underbelly Files: Infiltration (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It tells the true story of Victorian detective Colin McLaren who posed as a shady art dealer and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: mafia, crime family, youth, friends, chase, family business, gang war, mob boss, gangster, murder, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
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Hoodlums (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Loretta is a singer and escort in a mob-owned NYC nightclub and illegal casino. The favorite working girl of manager George, Loretta is unhappy with her current occupation and looking for a way out. George, meanwhile, is losing his stranglehold on ...
Plot: nightclub, escort, business, casino, mobster, exploitation, rescue, city, affair, vigilante, gangster, prostitute ...
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19%
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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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18%
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
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: hitman, yakuza, danger, gangster, murder, betrayal, criminal's revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, chase, master criminal, lone wolves ...
Place: japan, asia
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18%
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
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