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Shinjuku Swan II (2017)
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Shinjuku Swan II (2017)
Original name: 新宿スワンⅡ
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki who is the CEO of a scout company.
Style: crime drama, hot
Plot: brothel, organized crime, pretty girl, ship, fight, junkie, police officer, police, yakuza, blonde, prostitution, girlfriend, restaurant, singer, suicide, judge, drug dealer, street fight, boat, club, beauty pageant, crooked cop, recruitment, scout, flowers ...
Place: tokyo
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, realistic, crime drama and serious films with plots about gangster, yakuza, murder, police, organized crime, gang and violence mostly in Action, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Shinjuku Swan II: Tokyo Revengers (2021), Beyond Outrage (2012), Himizu (2011), Helter Skelter (2012), Violent Cop (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shinjuku Swan (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival talent scouts and the yakuza.
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, tense, crime drama
Plot: doll, orphan, partner, power struggle, dangerous friend, new job, crime boss, group of criminals, prostitution, brothel, organized crime, sex for money ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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Tokyo Revengers (2021)
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 ...
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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
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Himizu (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 129 min.
Story: Two teenagers and a group of people made homeless by a tsunami try and make their way in a devastated Japan
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Plot: teen angst, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, human nature, teenage life, earthquake, teenager, mental illness, suicide, obsession, heartwarming, dystopia ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Helter Skelter (2012)
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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