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Shinjuku Swan (2015)
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Shinjuku Swan (2015)
Original name: 新宿スワン
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, tense, light, entertaining, crime drama
Plot: doll, orphan, power struggle, partner, dangerous friend, prostitution, crime boss, new job, group of criminals, brothel, organized crime, baby, pig, asian prostitute, sex for money, outlaw, boxing, scuffle, agent, prostitute, drug addict, police, escape, betrayal, restaurant ...
Place: japan, tokyo
Keyword: partners, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, serious, realistic and crime drama films with plots about gangster, gang, rivalry, yakuza, organized crime, criminal and violence mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Shinjuku Swan: Beyond Outrage (2012), Outrage Coda (2017), Ichi the Killer (2001), Tokyo Revengers (2021), Helter Skelter (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shinjuku Swan II (2017)
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, drug, whore, back in hometown, cop, beauty salon, beauty pageant, prostitution, girlfriend, japanese police ...
Place: tokyo
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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
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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 ⇓
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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 ⇓
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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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Plot: time travel, time jump, character change, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, revenge, gang, gangster, school, changing the past or future, changing lives, time traveler, time paradox ...
Time: future
Place: tokyo
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Helter Skelter (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Through round after round of extensive plastic surgery and vigorous maintenance, Ririko has become the absolute manifestation of beauty, and becomes a wildly successful model, actress, and singer. However, soon, her body, unable to withstand the ...
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Duration: 135 min.
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Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, detective
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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
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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 ...
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Shinjuku Incident (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Iron Zhao aka Steelhead, a truck repairman from China's Northeast, and settles down as an illegal immigrant in Tokyo. After a series of run-ins with the Yakuza, he rises to power as the Don of Chinese illegal immigrants. However, things get out ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Black Rain (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, ...
Style: neo noir, detective, exciting, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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The Snow White Murder Case (2014)
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Duration: 126 min.
Story: Beautiful Noriko Miki works at a cosmetic company. One day, Noriko is murdered. People begin to suspect her co-worker Miki Shirono might have killed her. Television begins to cover her story. A TV show interviews Miki Shirono's colleagues, ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, detective ...
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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 ...
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Duration: 111 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Rhino (2021)
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Style: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, social
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