Movies like First Love 2019

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First Love (2019)
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First Love (2019)
Original name: 初恋
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
Style: psychological, uplifting, captivating, disturbing, psychedelic, black comedy, hood, action thriller
Plot: yakuza, prostitute, japanese girl, chinese mafia, call girl, boxing, drug, boxing match, love, life is a bitch, love affair, escapades, rivalry, danger, woman with a gun, hopes, youth, murder, couples, society, dishonesty, boxer, ghetto, gang, organized crime ...
Time: contemporary
Place: japan, tokyo
Keyword: gangsters, fighting movie, chinese, alias, short shorts, challenge

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Most similar movies to First Love

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and rough films with plots about gangster, gang, yakuza, organized crime, violence, rivalry and murder mostly in Action, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like First Love: Angel's Dance (1999), Dead or Alive 2 (2000), Outrage Coda (2017), Beyond Outrage (2012), Sonatine (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Angel's Dance (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young hitman is asked to prove himself by killing an innocent woman.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, surprise ending, captivating ...
Plot: hitman, gangster, love and romance, odd couple, criminal heroes, assassination attempt, relationship vs career, father daughter relationship, organized crime, gang, special agent, multiple personality disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dead or Alive 2 (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, friendship, friends, buddies, drug dealing, criminal heroes, danger, gangster, orphan, shooting, yakuza, triad ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.4
 3K
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 ⇓
36%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation (2016)
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Izumi Hoshi (Kanna Hashimoto) is senior in high school, but she led a small yakuza group in her past. After killing her uncle's murderer with a machine gun, her yakuza group disbanded. Izumi now lives an ordinary life as a high school student ...
Style: tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: yakuza, female yakuza, schoolgirl, gangster boss, drug, japanese schoolgirl, gang war, japanese girl, gangster, criminal's revenge, killings, murderer ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, entertaining, manga
Plot: organized crime, undercover agent, gang, fighting crime, bandit, mission, mole, escapades, police officer, working undercover, criminal gang, secret mission ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.5
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Jesus Rolls (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance.
Style: funny, humorous, sincere, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: bowling, danger, friendship, adaptation, couples, escapades, youth, love, society, violence, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.7
 2K
Argo 2 (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Hungarian small time crook, 70 year old Tibi Balog gets out of prison after 10 years, but he didn't change a bit. When a Japanese crime syndicate hires him to acquire a Hungarian invention - the world's first floppy disc - Tibi puts his ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, exciting, humorous, tense ...
Plot: criminal, yakuza, money, hitman, gang, mafia, gypsy, revenge, gang war, violence, betrayal, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
29%
 6.0
 14K
The Escort (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.
Style: humorous, captivating, intense, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: escort, call girl, journalist, prostitution, woman, parent child relationship, love interest, love and romance, sex addict, journalism, couples, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
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
Plot: yakuza, revenge, martial arts, badass, triad, violent, mafia, organized crime, superhero, vigilante, mafioso, school ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: As undercover cop Reiji takes on a new mission to takedown the Chinese mafia, elite police officer Shinya moves to arrest Reiji.
Style: disturbing, captivating, semi serious, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot: undercover police officer, police investigation, undercover agent, satire, fight, police officer, workplace, investigation, police, working undercover, battles, uncover truth ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.5
 3K
The Fable (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life" in Osaka.
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot: yakuza, hitman, sexy girl, killer, employer employee relationship, office, contract, gang, crime boss, changing lives, humour, male female relationship ...
Time: future
Place: japan, osaka japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.1
 10K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.9
 4K
Villain (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, rivalry, police, murder, debt, society, violence, escapades, family relations, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.3
 2K
Monday (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A simple funeral turns a man's world upside down.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, life turned upside down, danger, disorder, dark humor, memory loss, chases and races, gang, coincidence, chase, asian ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, clever, witty, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, dark humor, organized crime, twists and turns, crime gone awry, disorder, gang, nothing goes right, debt, violent, friends ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Style: controversial, brutal, sadistic, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: psychopath, dark humor, violence, serial killer, violent, insanity, killer, mass murder, satire, murderous pair, on the road, lovers on the run ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: new mexico, london, tokyo, nevada, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Style: disturbing, controversial, dark comedy, bloody, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gory, violence, psychopath, organized crime, gangster, yakuza, massacre, mob boss, danger, rage, insanity, sadism ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Million Dollar Heiress (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.
Style: exciting, humorous, stylized, action comedy, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, private detective, kung fu, van, chase, hand to hand combat, kung fu fighting, buddies, femme fatale, escapades, danger, woman in danger ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: italy, spain, europe, barcelona, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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One Last Dance (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Crime
Country: Singapore
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An assassin is hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man's son. With every death, the killer gets closer to the last kidnapper's name... his own.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, hitman, danger, betrayal, dishonesty, chess, violence, killer, assassin, professional, criminal, organized crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
Boiling Point (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Style: bloody, art house, neo noir, crime drama, hood ...
Plot: yakuza, revenge, gangster, gang, mafia, sex crime, organized crime, ghetto, asian, car crash, explosions, japanese mafia ...
Time: 80s
Place: japan, okinawa, east asia, asia, okinawa japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Crows Explode (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A month after Genji Takiya graduates, a new battle for supremacy at Suzuran All-Boys High School begins. Transfer student Kaburagi Kazeo combats Kagami Ryohei for the coveted top spot, amidst a brewing inter-school conflict with Kurosaki Industrial ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, hood, weird
Plot: schoolyard fight, youth, teenager, scuffle, youth gang, fistfight, school, boxer, rivalry, troubled youth, criminal, fight ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders in British history.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark
Plot: drug dealer, fight, drug, organized crime, gang leader, crime boss, criminal, murder, drug smuggling, gang war, drug lord, business competition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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