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Tokyo Revengers (2021)
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Original name: 東京リベンジャーズ
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An unemployed man learns that his ex-girlfriend was murdered. He suddenly finds himself travelling through time to his middle school years and has chance to change the future and save the girl. He aims to rise to the top of the most brutal delinquent gang.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, slang, crying, psychotronic, detective
Audience:
date night
Plot:
character change, time travel, time paradox, time portal, school, revenge, gang, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gangster, changing the past or future, changing lives, back in time, teenager, bandit, time loop, criminal, rescue, love and romance, time jump, teenage life, escapades, male female relationship, lifestyle change, love story, gang member ...
Time:
future
Place:
tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and disturbing films with plots about criminal, gang, revenge, fight, gangster, bandit and criminal gang mostly in Drama, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Tokyo Revengers: Grasshopper (2015), Crows Explode (2014), Shinjuku Swan (2015), Night in Paradise (2020), Shinjuku Swan II (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After witnessing the murder of his father as a child, Ibrahim is drawn into the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself with his best friend Ashri, he finds his high school sweetheart Houria and manages to rekindle their love, ...
Style:
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Place:
egypt
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33%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, southern italy
Similarity:
33%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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